Highlanders' Farewell.

The tune is Highlanders' Farewell from Virginia fiddler Emmett Lundy. I put the apostrophe after the "s" in Highlanders' because the original source is an Irish (not Scottish) tune called Highlanders' Farewell to Ireland--a reference to the withdrawal of The Highlander's Regiment from Ireland in (I believe) the 17th century. Lundy thought the tune was about the departure of a single highlander from his Lady. The performance was by Lightning in the East at the 2007 park Slope Jamboree. John Hoffmann-fiddle, Steve Arkin-banjo, Erica Weiss-guitar.

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Music

Tags:

• old-time music
• fiddle
• clawhammer
• banjo
• Emmett Lundy
• Steve Arkin
• John Hoffmann
• Erica Weiss
• Lightning in the East

[OceanicLoveLetters]

I love this beautiful Mary MM! Thank you so much for sending it to me and teaching me something. There are so many talented current musicians and then thanks so much to Emmett Lundy for keeping this alive (and to Bruce Molsky for keeping Emmett alive and well)! And to what the French call the "télélephone arabe"... (probably NPC)... where you tell the story from one person to another and it gets changed along the way. Can't wait to see you tonight in the Santa Cruz mountains!