Played on my English Concertina, Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle & Side Drum.

Heart Of Oak / A Life on the Ocean Wave.

Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Mandolin & Side Drum.

"Richard Grainger rewrote Death of Nelson to his own tune from fragments published in a Folk Music Journal in about 1973. He sang it on his 1984 Fellside album, Herbs of the Heart."

https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/thedeathofnelson.html

Lyrics:
Death of Nelson
by Richard Grainger

On the Twenty-First of October, before the rising sun,
We formed a line for battle and at twelve o clock begun.
Old Nelson to his men did say:
“The lord will prosper us this day.
Set fire the broadside, fire away.”
On board a man of war.

Chorus (twice after each verse):
Let him die in peace, God bless you all,
On board a man of war.
From broadside to broadside the cannon balls did fly,
Like hailstone the small shot across our decks did fly.
Our main mast was blown away;
Besides some hundreds on that day
Were killed or wounded in the fray
On board a man of war.

And then our great commander, with grief he shook his head:
There's no reprieve, no relief, old Nelson he is dead.
It was a fateful musket-ball
That caused old Nelson for to fall.
Let him die in peace, god bless you all
On board a man of war

Richard Grainger:
http://www.richard-grainger.com/

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A plaque on the wall beside these magnificent windows in the Allen and Adair Hall in Dervock reads......

TRAFALGAR. OCTOBER 21ST 1805
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The scene on the poop of HMS VICTORY as she led the weather column into action.
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The time is 11.40 am Nelson's famous signal is being hoisted.
In the left-hand Light Lieutenant John Pasco (with megaphone in hand) is seen
superintending the hoisting of the signal.

The centre light shows Vice Admiral Lord Nelson talking to Thomas Hardy The Captain of HMS VICTORY and Captain the Hon. Henry Blackwood (with hat in hand) The captain of the Frigate EURYALUS .

In the right hand light Captain William Prowse the Captain of the Frigate SIRIUS is
seen looking through his telescope. He is watching the enemy ships which can be
seen on the horizon. To the right of Captain Prowse stands (with his arms folded) his nephew Captain Charles William Adair, Royal Marines. In the foreground Mr John Scott, Lord Nelson's secretary, is seen bending forward studying some papers.
The British ship in the distance is HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN the flagship of Vice Admiral Collingwood, leading the LEE column.

The frigate Captains had been called on board for orders, and returned to their ships before the battle began.

Lord Nelson, Mr Scott and Captain Adair were killed in the action, and Lieutenant Pasco was severely wounded.

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The Death Of Nelson!

Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle & Tin Whistle.

Eleanor Plunkett!

With my Oakwood Hammered Dulcimer & 1923 62 Key Wheatstone Aeola Baritone / Treble English Concertina, playing Lamshaws Fancy / Herd on the Hill & Holmes Fancy in front of the fire. Tune details below: ...

Lamshaws Fancy: https://thesession.org/tunes/12607

Herd on the Hill: https://thesession.org/tunes/6175

Holmes Fancy: https://thesession.org/tunes/7848

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Dick Glasgow's Album

Lamshaws Fancy / Herd on the Hill & Holmes Fancy!

My first effort using my new RØDE Mic.
The tune is the Irish Reel, The Maids of Feakle.
Instruments: Anglo Concertina {C/G Suttner}, Sobell Mandolin & Jews Harp

Maids of Feakle: Concertina, Mandolin & Jews Harp

This Irish Jig is played on a Suttner C/G Anglo Concertina, Tenortone Tenor Guitar, Paragon Tenor Banjo & Bodhran.

Paddy Fahy's Jig {Concertina, Tenor Guitar & Banjo}

The Home Ruler was written by a man up here in Ballycastle, North Antrim, the late Frank McCollam.

Frank, who also had a passion for Gardening, Bees, restoring old Clocks, and ‘going to the Moss’ {i.e. digging Peat}, was a member of the local Ballinlea Pipe Band, but in later years, put the pipes aside to concentrate on the Fiddle. He also played the Accordion & marched with local bands on the 12th, so as they say up here, he kicked with both feet! ;-) However, it’s his Fiddle playing that most folk around here remember him for.

The version I have for you here, I learned from another Ballycastle man, Chris McCormick, who actually learned to play the Fiddle, with Frank as his tutor, so this version is pretty close to the way Frank would have played it. A little different perhaps, from the very fine version recorded by Noel Hill & Tony Linnane some years ago, on their brilliant LP. I’m sure there are many people who learned the tune from that recording, and no doubt they will be interested to see how it differs from the original concept.

The Home Ruler!

'Sunderland Lassies' & 'The Lads of Alnwick', played by Colin Ross, Julia & Barry Say at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, on the Causeway Coast of Co. Antrim in 2005.

Recording by Lindsay Porteous.

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3iw-l8GNI

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
http://bushmillsinn.blogspot.com/2010/03/causeway-dulcimer-festival-bushmills.html

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.cimbalom.org/2004/11/new-causeway-dulcimer-festival-for-co-antrim-n-ireland-2005/

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/traditional-notes-by-dick-glasgow-1-1815456

C. D. Festival

Colin Ross, Julia & Barry Say: Sunderland Lassies & The Lads of Alnwick.

Three tunes by Billy Pig, played by Colin Ross, Julia & Barry Say at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, on the Causeway Coast of Co. Antrim in 2005.

Recording by Lindsay Porteous.

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3iw-l8GNI

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
http://bushmillsinn.blogspot.com/2010/03/causeway-dulcimer-festival-bushmills.html

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.cimbalom.org/2004/11/new-causeway-dulcimer-festival-for-co-antrim-n-ireland-2005/

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/traditional-notes-by-dick-glasgow-1-1815456

Three Billy Pig tunes on Northumbrian Pipes.

Colin Ross, Julia & Barry Say: Northumbrian Pipes.

Northumbrian Pipes: Colin Ross, Julia & Barry Say at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, on the Causeway Coast of Co. Antrim in 2005. 
They start with The Peacock Set: Welcome to the Town Again / Niel Gow's Wife & Oyster Wife's Rant with all of them playing keyless chanters made by themselves. 
Followed by Willow Tree Hornpipe, and Colburn Lane with Colin Ross on fiddle and Barry Say on guitar. Track details supplied by Julia Say.

Recording by Lindsay Porteous.

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3iw-l8GNI

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
http://bushmillsinn.blogspot.com/2010/03/causeway-dulcimer-festival-bushmills.html

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.cimbalom.org/2004/11/new-causeway-dulcimer-festival-for-co-antrim-n-ireland-2005/

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/traditional-notes-by-dick-glasgow-1-1815456

Northumbrian Pipes: 'The Peacock Set' from Colin Ross, Julia & Barry Say.

Colin Ross on Fiddle, Julia Say on Northumbrian Pipes, Barry Say on Guitar & Lindsay Porteous on Jews Harp, at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, on the Causeway Coast of Co. Antrim in 2005.

Recording by Lindsay Porteous.

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3iw-l8GNI

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
http://bushmillsinn.blogspot.com/2010/03/causeway-dulcimer-festival-bushmills.html

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.cimbalom.org/2004/11/new-causeway-dulcimer-festival-for-co-antrim-n-ireland-2005/

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/traditional-notes-by-dick-glasgow-1-1815456

Northumbrian Pipes, Fiddle & Jews Harp.

Colin Ross on Fiddle, Julia Say on Northumbrian Pipes, Barry Say on Guitar & Lindsay Porteous on Jews Harp, at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, on the Causeway Coast of Co. Antrim in 2005.

Recording by Lindsay Porteous.
Photo: Colin Ross giving Sam Fleming a few Piping tips at the festival.

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3iw-l8GNI

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
http://bushmillsinn.blogspot.com/2010/03/causeway-dulcimer-festival-bushmills.html

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.cimbalom.org/2004/11/new-causeway-dulcimer-festival-for-co-antrim-n-ireland-2005/

Causeway Dulcimer Festival 2005, Bushmills, Co. Antrim:
https://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/traditional-notes-by-dick-glasgow-1-1815456

Northumbrian Pipes Session at Causeway Dulcimer Festival

Go to Berwick Johnny ( aka Berwick Billy )and Sunderland Lasses, a C17th  & an C18th 3/2 Hornpipe from the North of England which are popular in the Northumbrian Piping tradition. I'm playing them here on an English Concertina, Hammered Dulcimer & Tenor Guitar.

Go to Berwick Johnny and Sunderland Lasses

Two tunes from the Northumbrian Minstrelsy of 1882 'Sir John Fenwick's Flower among them all' a listening tune & 'Fenwick of Bywell' a Quadrille, played on the English Concertina.

I was excited to come across the 2nd tune as it has 6 parts.

Sir John Fenwick's & Fenwick of Bywell

My Own House followed by Roxburgh Castle. Played by Dick Glasgow on Hammered Dulcimer & English Concertina.

My Own House & Roxburgh Castle!

Here's another 3/2 Hornpipe I just had to learn. ;-)

Dick's Maggot, an English Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time) which was first published for a longways dance by Henry Playford in the supplement to the 11th edition of the Dancing Master in 1702. .. A maggot was another name for a 'dram'. .. on English Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer.

Dick's Maggot

Lang Stayed Away, an old 3/2 Hornpipe from the Nortthumbrian Minstrelsy, believed to have originated as a late C17th 2 part Scottish tune Welcome Home My Dearie.
Played here on Hammered Dulcimer & English Concertina.

Lang Stayed Away:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Lang_Stay%27d_Away

Lang Stayed Away:
https://thesession.org/tunes/3024

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Lang Stayed Away!

Jack's Gone a-Shearin', a Scottish 3/2 Hornpipe, played on Hammered Dulcimer & English Concertina!

This tune was first published in 1710 in the Margaret Sinkler Manuscript.
The Scottish 3/2 Hornpipe - Jack's Gone a-Shearin' played on Hammered Dulcimer & English Concertina! This tune was first published in 1710 in the Margaret Si...

Jack's Gone a'Shearin'.

The English 3/2 Hornpipe 'If you will not have me, you may let me go' first appeared in the William Vickers Manuscript in 1770! Played here on English Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer

If you will not have me, you may let me go.

English 3/2 Hornpipe, first published in Walshes' Tune Collection of 1730. Played here on Tenor Guitar, English Concertina, Fiddle & Hammered Dulcimer.

Clark's Hornpipe

The Presbyterian Hornpipe, another English 3/2 Hornpipe on English Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer.

The Presbyterian Hornpipe

The Hare's Maggot: An English 3/2 Hornpipe on English Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer. First published in the Dancing Master in 1701 & later in Playford..

The Hare's Maggot

Three popular tunes around the Borders region, song air Jock o' Hazeldean, followed by two 3/2 Hornpipes - Rusty Gulley & Cam ye o'er frae France! Played here on English Concertina, Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle, Nyckelharpa & Long Drum.

Jock o' Hazeldean, Rusty Gulley & Cam ye o'er frae France.

Cobbler's Hornpipe, an English Hornpipe in 3/2, first published by Walsh in his Complete Country Dancing-Master, in 1740. 

Played here on English Concertina, Hammered Duulcimer, Nyckelharpa & Bodhran.

Cobbler's Hornpipe

Hambleton's Round O, an English 3/2, first published in The Dancing Master in 1710.

Played on English Concertina, Nyckelharpa & Hammered Dulcimer.

Hambleton's Round O

Plinn Ton Double & Hanter Dro de Languidic, played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Nyckelharpa & Fiddle. (29th March)

The Plinn & Hanter Dro are two of the oldest traditional Breton dances.They are most commonly danced in lines, or circles.

Plinn Ton Double & Hanter Dro de Languidic

Traditional Breton Tunes on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina & Nyckelharpa, plus Tenor Guitar & Bowed Psaltery.
The photo is of a pair of Breton Clogs which I bought in 1979, while on a working holiday in Brittany.

Breton Tunes

Mominette, a Schottish, composed by French Hurdy Gurdy player Jean-François "Maxou" Heintzen. Played here on English Concertina, Hammered Dulcimer & Nyckelharpa.

Mominette

Derriere Les Carreaux, composed by Frederic Paris & played here on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina & Fiddle.

Derriere Les Carreaux

The Walls of St  Malo. A Breton style Gavotte composed by Keith Murphy & played here on English Concertina, Nyckelharpa & Hammered Dulcimer.

Walls of St Malo

Hanter Dro, a Breton tune on Mountain Dulcimer, English Concertina, Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle & Nyckelharpa.

Hanter Dro

A Scottish, from the Morvan region of France, just North of the Massif Central. Played here on English Concertina, Nyckelharpa & Hammered Dulcimer.

A French Schottish.

Another wonderful English 3/2 Hornpipe from Thomas Marsden’s book ‘Original Lancashire Hornpipes, Old and New’, published in 1705 by John Playford.

Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle & Long Drum.

Tom Mellin's 3/2 Hornpipe

Star above the Garter & The Lisheen Slide. Two Kerry Slides made famous by Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford. Played on English Concertina, Fiddle & Hammered Dulcimer.

Star above the Garter & The Lisheen Slide.

Mountvarra Bridge & John Brosnan's two three part Irish Polkas, played on Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle & English Concertina.

Mountvarra Bridge & John Brosnan's Polka

My instruments are Fiddle, English Concertina, Hammered Dulcimer & Nyckelharpa. I am a full time musician, teaching Trad Music in local Primary Schools, tutoring an adult evening class, anchoring two local weekly pub sessions & a founder member of local Folk Group - Scad the Beggars.

Dick Glasgow

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