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C/G Anglo Irish Concertina - Reel - The Keel Row

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Uploaded by on Dec 25, 2008

A light-hearted tune from my homeland (Scotland), but learned from the Irish Box player Josephine Marsh at the yearly RVIA (Rhine Valley Irish Association) Feis Ceoil (music festivals) in Alsace.

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  • Hello! I always love this tune, and you play a very nice version of it. If you bump into a Northumbrian they may take issue with it being Scottish though. I grew up with it as a Northumbrian song as it mentions the River Tyne, and Sandgate, an area of Newcastle by the river where the Keelmen lived. It is likely to be influenced by the growing Irish community at the time however. I liked it all the same.

  • It was originally described to me as Scots, which I accepted in good faith. On reflection, the tune seems (at least played in this way) a bit too happy-go-lucky to be truly Scottish in origin. Thanks for the tip.

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  • that was lovely i have an anglo concertina and want to know how to play please give some lessons online

  • favourited this video, what kind of a concertina have you got? what kinda price range?

  • Very nice!

  • @thanasse C'est anglais!

    As I came thro' Sandgate,

    Thro' Sandgate, thro' Sandgate,

    As I came thro' Sandgate,

    I heard a lassie sing:

    'O, weel may the keel row,

    The keel row, the keel row,

    O weel may the keel row

    That my laddie's in.'

    Sandgate est un quartier de Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (Why should the Scots and the Irish have all the best music?)

  • I do not know if people from Ireland, or Scotland, oxners of that kind of music, realize how lucky they are to bear this in their ADN... How lucky and blessed !!

  • i like to play this song on my flute

  • Definitely Geordie! What do you mean a bit too happy-go-lucky to be truly Scottish!

    Howay Geordie lads and lasses

  • Man, you are great at this instrument. I love Irish folk music and it sounds wonderful on concertinas. Really, good job.

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