Flower of Portencross - Slow Air

Another instrumental.... I've been playing a few lately which have had good feedback. This is a slow air written by John Mason of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra. The only version I can find on youtube is on a bowed psalter and only has the first half.....so...here's the whole thing.
Its written in Bb but falls naturally in G on the guitar. The capo on fret 3 puts in back in the original key.
I don't know the story behind this but there is a Portencross Castle - try Google it - which may be the source,

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• kev
• thompson
• acoustic
• guitar
• folk
• slow
• air
• fingerpicking

[davidbrodlie]

Beautiful!! I'm sure John Mason would be thrilled at this version of his Slow Air.

[keltickev27]

@davidbrodlie

may thanks...enjoy!

[bunnydoc57]

wow

[keltickev27]

@bunnydoc57

I hope that's a good wow!

[keltickev27]

ah..... thnx for the speedy update....It makes sense now.

Anyway....its a great tune ;o)

[wgwy]

Fairly mundane, I think. There are several types of cranesbills, so-called because the seed container, after flowering, has a long pointy bit like a crane's bill. This one is red, so someone called it Bloody.

[keltickev27]

thnx for the feedback...and the information! So is there any story behind the flower or is it simply a pretty flower? 'Bloody Cranesbill' must have a story surely?

slainté

[wgwy]

Very enjoyable change from the Fiddle Orchestra version. The "Flower of Portencross" is a wild flower, the Bloody Cranesbill or Geranium Sanguineum (red, not blue) which grows in the rocks near the old pier at Portencross. Flowers June - August. (Flower identity info direct from the composer).

[keltickev27]

thnx....I like it! ;o)

[keltickev27]

thnx Jesse....

slainté