Cambridge New York

Overview

This page is for the use of the Hubbard Hall Tune Jam for Instrumentalists, where we have been learning traditional and modern Irish, Scottish, Shetland, Quebecois, and Appalachian "old timey" music by ear. The class is open to all levels of skill and all instruments and meets every Tuesday in the Beacon Feed building behind Hubbard Hall at 5:30-6:30 PM.

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Recordings

These are rough recordings made as we are learning songs by ear. The purpose of these recordings is to allow us to learn (or, rather, re-learn) the songs when we forget them after class:

• March 4, 2008 (mp3, 12:18, 11.8MB) -- Tombigbee Waltz (G major), Maison de Glace (jig in D major), Fisherman's Wife (jig in D minor), New song of the day: Plenty of Hornpipe (A minor)
• March 11, 2008 (mp3, 10:00, 9.6MB) -- The Ash Grove (D major?), Plenty of Hornpipe once through (A minor, Bliss and Robbie only), Swallow Tail Jig (E minor), Fisherman's Wife (jig in D minor), Flat Foot Henry (Alan only)
• The classes March 18 and 15 were not recorded (but the new songs appear below)
• April 1, 2008 (mp3, 14:18, 13MB) -- Swallow Tail Jig (E minor), Maison de Glace (D major), Fisherman's Wife (jig in D minor), Swallow Tail Jig (E minor, up to speed), Fair Jenny (D major and G major, by Peter Barnes, our first time through), The Ash Grove (D major?)
• April 8, 2008 (mp3, 12:13, 11.7MB) -- Christmas Day Ida Mornin' (D and E Minor), Fair Jenny (D major and G major), Fair Jenny syncopated variation, Drummond Castle (A minor, our first time through)
• April 15, 2008 (mp3, 4:02, 3.7MB) -- Sweets of May (G major), a Shetland tune (G major; title unknown), another Shetland tune (also of unknown title)
• April 22, 2008 (mp3, 1:32, 1.4MB) -- June Apple (A modal).
• April 29, 2008 (mp3, 1:46, 1.6MB) -- Off to Boston (G?)
• May 20, 2008 (mp3, 5:59, 5.5MB) -- Hollow Poplar, A Yow Came to Weir Door Yarmin' (A Ewe Came to Our Door Bleating; a Shetland tune; A min), Far Away (by Peter Young, B min)
• May 27, 2008 (mp3, 2:05, 1.9MB) -- Cluck Old Hen (first slow then fast)
• Jun 17, 2008 (mp3, 2:14, 2.1MB) -- Reel de Montreal (G major and D major)
• Jul 1, 2008 (mp3, 1:01, 1MB) -- The Snowy Path (D major, 9/8 time)
• Jul 15, 2008 (mp3, 5:00, 4.8MB) -- L'Oiseau Bleu (D major), The Galatian Waltz (key?)
• Aug 26, 2008 (mp3, 12:23, 11.3MB) -- Gaspe Reel (D major), Reel de Montreal (G major), St. Anne's Reel (D major), Road to Lisdon Varna (Jig in E minor), Little Burnt Potato (D major), Far Away (by Peter Young, B min)
• Sep 30, 2008 (mp3, 6:44, 6.3MB) -- Scarce 'o Tatties (A minor), Little Burnt Potato (D major), Lovejoy's Lament (written in 2008 by Stephan Deibel)
• Oct 21, 2008 (mp3, 7.2MB) -- St. Anne's Reel (D major), Butteryfly Jig (slip jig in E minor), Jefferson and Liberty (aka The Gabbio; A minor), Riding on a Load of Hay (reel in E minor), Shebeeg and Schemoor (D major)
• Nov 25, 2008 -- The Wren (B minor), Ten Penny Bit, March of St. Timothy.
• Jan 13, 2009 -- Valentine's Day (G major), Boda Waltz (E minor), St. Columba (D major).
• Feb 3, 2009 -- Bear Dance Tunes -- part one and two (A minor).
• Apr 28, 2009 -- Tennessee Waltz (D major), Arkansas Traveler (D major), Off to California (G major)
• July 7, 2009 -- Bally Desmond Polka (A minor), Tennessee Waltz, extended edition (D major)
• October 1, 2009 -- Canyon Creek (E minor; written by Caz Lewis), Redwing (G major), I Cannae Get My Mare A-Tamed (G major), Arkansas Woods (E minor; written by Caz Lewis)
• December 16, 2009 -- Full Rigged Ship (A minor), X (E minor; written by Caz Lewis)
• March 30, 2010 -- Glise A Sherbrooke (G Major), Unicycle (G Major; written by Caz Lewis), Star Above The Garter (G Major), The Queens Jig (D Major), Stool Of Repentance (A Major), Tim Tam (G Major; Written by Bliss McIntosh), Bumble Bee (G Major; written by Stephan Deibel), Twelfth Night (D Major; written by Bliss McIntosh), My Cape Breton Home (G Major), Erics Waltz (G Major; written by Eric Margan), Girl With The Blue Dress On (G Major), Swedish Walking Tune (G Major)
• October 2010 -- All the Way to Galway, Minstrel Boy, Jenny Lind and Joys of Quebec, Top of Cork Road, Lanigan's Ball, You Married my Daughter
• Jan 7, 2012 -- The Cliffs of Mohr (A minor), Da Fields o Foula (G major), Da Brig (D major), Garsters Dream (G major), Indian Point (E minor), Fee de Dent (G major), Marche au Camp (G major), Pipe on the Hob (D major), Lanigan's Ball (E minor), All the Way to Galway (D major), Amelia's Waltz (D major), Bonnie at Morn (A minor), Farewell to Whiskey (G major), Golden Slippers (D major), Green Mountain Petronella (G major), Jacky Tar (E minor), Jenny Lind (D major), Joys of Quebec (A major), Manx Waltzes (B minor), My Love is But a Lassie Yet (D major), Painter's Polka (D major), Planxty Fanny Power (G major), Planxty Irwin (D major), Sackett's Harbor (A minor), South Pond (A minor; written by Bliss McIntosh), The Old Grey Cat (E minor), The Red Haired Boy (A major), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (D major), Top of Cork Road (D major), Twelfth Night Waltz (D major; written by Bliss McIntosh), Two Rivers Waltz (B minor), Utpick Waltz (G major), Zemer Attik (D minor), Petronella (D major), Scotland the Brave (D major)