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Current Catalogue Entry
| Tape/Side | NPS-JFC-C-001-01 | Length m | 29m | Date rec’d | Quality | ||
| Title | Gathering (with Graham Binless) | Contents | Live Concert | ||||
| Help? | Identify tunes | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00 – 04:40 | Tommy Breckons | Crooked Bawbee /Unid/Unid; Unid/Unid; J B Milne | Northumbrian Smallpipes (NSP) | Northumbrian piper of Foundry Farm, Bellingham (1928-2009). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Breckons J B Milne is by Angus Fitchett | IG MD |
| 05:00-12:00 | John Doonan of Jarrow and his daughter Maureen Cole (dancer) | Unidentified reel; The Coolin (announced); Saddle the Pony? | Ist tune Piccolo + soft shoe dance 2nd Piccolo Solo – no dance 3rd hard shoe dance | All Irish Chamption Piccolo player 1964. Father of Mick & Kevin Doonan of the Mighty Doonans & more. “Godfather of Irish music”. Also shipyard worker. See https://music.apple.com/us/artist/john-doonan/332363624 | IG MD GM |
| 13:00-17:39 | Willie Scott | Bonny Tyneside | Voice (sung unaccompanied) | Willie Scott (1897 – 1989), border shepherd and famed border singer. Born in Canonbie. See https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/2010/12/willie-scott-the-shepherds-song-tsdl183/ | IG |
| 17:29-20:30 | Willie Scott | There’s bound to be a Row | Voice (sung unaccompanied) | Tyneside song | IG |
| 20:32-26:30 | Willie Scott | The Kielder Hunt | Voice (sung unaccompanied) | A border hunt song | IG |
| 26:34-28:45 | Willie Scott | McAllister dances before the King. | Spoken Voice | A poem by D M Mackenzie | IG |
| Last minute unintelligible – may be interesting after speed correction. | |||||
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