Fiddle Music at Colonial Williamsburg - Panmure set

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Uploaded by on Apr 25, 2008

Chowning's Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg has 18th century entertainment "gambols". This video has Scottish fiddler John Turner and friends playing Panmure House and Timour the Tartar at gambols.
Much of the lighting was from candles, so it is a bit dark.

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  • Ay? A Scottish fiddle in Williamsburg?

    Hmmm...

  • Ay! At Chowning's Tavern, evening gambols. Scottish music was quite popular during the later 1700s....after things settled down from the 1745 rebellion. Once trade with the colonies started flowing through Glasgow, music books from the Glasgow and Edinburgh music publishers started flowing as well.

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  • The second tune is a variant of a Northumbrian pipe tune called ''Blanchand Races'', a variant I've never encountered previously. The folk process is amazing!

  • Better than lady gaga.

  • Better than lady gaga.

  • @greeneyedsteamengine Thomas Jefferson went to college at WIlliam and Mary in WIlliamsburg in 1760s, and his music books have lots of Scottish fiddle tunes in them, as well as his own words attesting to how much he liked Scottish fiddle music. 

  • @greeneyedsteamengine Absolutely!

  • Awesome stuff...My ancestors were Scottish / Irish settlers in the Carolinas. Great to hear some traditional tunes in Colonial Williamsburg! 5 stars

  • Wonderful in all of its rustic glory ^^

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