The Snowy Spring (John Dew); and
The Plight of the Penguin (Ingrid Henderson).

What do you get when you cross a piper with a temperamental whistle and a fiddle player with a guitar that doesn't like staying in tune? Apparently, this.

Snowy Penguin

These are two tunes I wrote, which I arranged and recorded with Dylan Cairns-Howarth. 
"My Room" was named after the room which I currently live in, meaning it's mine, but which Dylan first lived in, which he claims means it's his. Silly. (Not that I'm possessive at all...) 
"Above the Clouds" was in point of fact written above the clouds, on a plane making the journey across the Atlantic Ocean. No better way to pass the time on an airplane that writing tunes!

My Room/Above the Clouds

Driving around France this Summer with my Gurdy-playing son, we inevitably listened to a lot of French dance music. This is the tune that will forever evoke Summer 2012. Heard first from Mister Klof  and later  a great version on Gurdies by Giles Chabenat & Patrick Bouffard himself. 
My son Dylan and his mate Sam do a pretty good job of it too as a fiddle duet: see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lovwlMPaiBk&list=UUH-4bkUH_zH7LvfDtly2a5g&index=14&feature=plcp

Valse Nouvelle (Patrick Bouffard) arr. for guitar

http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyCairns12?feature=mhee

Valse Nouvelle (Patrick Bouffard) arr. for guitar

Andrew John Cairns

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