Author Archives: mondaynightsession

November 27

Quail is a Pretty Bird (A) Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies (A) Sandy Boys (A) Speed the Plow (A) Robertson’s (A) Hommage à Edmund Parizeau (A) Breaking up Christmas (A) Ora Lee (G) Jamie Allen (G) Huntsman’s Chorus (G) Arizona … Continue reading

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November 20

Oak Leaf (bm) Hundred Pipers (A) Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (D) Idlewild Jig (D) Lucky Trapper (G) White Buffalo (em) Dedicate à Jos (bm/D) Old Joe (jig) (D) Jump at the Sun (dm) Camp Meeting on the 4th of July … Continue reading

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6 November 2017

Mississippi Sawyer (D) Mackilmoyle (D) Blue Mule (G) Flop-Eared Mule (D) Walker Street (G) Ricketts’s Hornpipe (D) Green Willis (A) The Old Rocking Chair (A) Growling Old Man and Woman (am) Liberty (D) Union Street Session (D) Quail is a … Continue reading

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30 October 2017

Coleman’s March (D) Scollay’s (em) Christy Barry’s (G) Glise de Sherbrooke (G) Hommage à Edmund Parizeau (A) Shoes & Stockings (G) Louis Cyr (G) Walk Old Shoe (D) The Walk Home (D) Hollow Poplar (G) Another Fall (G) Crooked Stovepipe … Continue reading

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24 October

Cold Frosty Morning (am) On the Danforth (A) The Rambler, aka Father Hanley’s (A) Stool of Repentance (A) Flagstaff (A) Hommage à Edmund Parizeau (A) Buffalo Girls (A) L’air mignon (A) Fleur de Mandragore (A) Lost Girl (G) Seneca Square … Continue reading

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16 October 2017

Shoes and Stockings (G) Le Canal en Octobre (G) Great Uncle Henry (G) Mouth of the Tobique (G) Old Yellow Dog Come Trotting Through the Meetinghouse (G) Sandy River Belles (G) Flagstaff (A) Big John McNeil (A) Repeal the Poll … Continue reading

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2 October 2017: what we played

The Svensson Girls (G) Lambingfold (G) Mississippi Sawyer (D) Rights of Man (em) The Scholar (D) Aunt May’s Canadian Jig Toss the Feathers Hommage a Edmund Parizeau (A) Big John McNeil (A) Walk Old Shoe (D) Through the Gates Lady … Continue reading

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29 September 2017: What we played

Spotted Pony (D) Single-Footing Horse (D) Rose Tree (D) Year of Jubilo (D) Maison de Glace (D) Le Printemps (demo) Home with the Girls in the Morning (dm) Camp Meeting on the 4th of July (D) La Promeneuse (D) Glise … Continue reading

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From David, more of the story

Some additional historical details: Susan Conger and Susie Secco, along with numerous others including me, had long been part of the rich musical landscape of the Monday Night Dance in Amherst. When the English musicians and dancers took over the … Continue reading

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Slower, faster

A free-reed player named Judy Minot went on a tear about speed in response to another free-reed player saying  she couldn’t go to a workshop because she couldn’t play fast enough.   See  Judy’s diatribe (her word) dated September 19, … Continue reading

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