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I composed these two Polkas in memory of Jim McGill, a North Antrim Fiddle player, who taught numerous youngsters around Ballycastle the joys of pl...

Legendary old-time mandolin player Kenny Hall, nearly 85 years old, plays and sings onstage accompanied by his wife Marta on bodhran, Bill Lehr on ...

FIFTY-NINTH U.K.No1.MAY/JUNE1957. ANDY WILLIAMS.

I have known Joe Gordon-Levitt for going on 12 years. We first met in the summer of 2000 while doing a tiny movie called Manic, where we bonded ov...

Paddy O'Connor's No's 2 & 1 for Nigel Gatherer's Tune Of The Week # 30. Played on a Paul Shippey 10 String Mandolin.

Donald, Carol, Oona and Ian playing their favourite tune at the Thursday night TMC class in Inverness.

Some informal fun music making with my friend the late Ali Stephens. Happy memories. The tune is "The Oi Song".

Set of tunes played by The Skeerwud Band. This video is only a rough edit and contains introductions which i will remove asap.

An awkward occurence in some tunes is having to play notes on the same fret on adjacent strings. Here Nigel Gatherer demonstrates his method of app...

The Hamish Napier Quintet at Glasgow's West End Festival play several songs and tunes: Taybank Shenanigans, Clueless, Star of the Bar, Snow Angel, ...

This is a tune I've been playing for a number of years, and I can't really remember where I got it. Probably from one of the dusty books, although ...

a wee tune for the guitar in F major

Two reels. I learnt the first from Nigel Gatherer. I can't remember what either are called.......

a mixture tunes, i was abit nervous even more nervous as we got play in the church, wow ee, id like to thank Allan me partner and me camera man for...

The first tune is an old Scottish tune associated with a song. It can be found in Ireland as "Jerry O'Sullivan's" (Lunasa played it on their Kinnit...

This is a great tune I learned from a recording of an American mandolin player called Don Grieser.

This is a beautiful tune which is the air of a Gaelic song called "Mo Chailin Dileas Donn" (Well May I Behold) My Faithful Brown Hair'd Maid). Musi...

This tutorial shows a user how to rename the windows partition from "Untitled" to whatever he or she pleases.

This is a tune from the Western Highlands and Islands which I learned from a Bobby MacLeod record. Performing is my Improvers Mixed Instrument clas...

Five brave workers decide to record themselves simultaneously at their office doing something...unthinkable...

An Old Time fiddle tune which I learned from a French fiddle (and piper) called Cathy. The key to playing this type of tune is to try to be laid ba...

An Irish reel which I've known for years. It's a different story when the camera is on you! Here it is, warts and all!