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| Tape | NPS-JFC-5-023-SIDE-A | Batch | 2 | Length m | 47 | Date Rec’d | 11 Nov 83? | |
| Title | Piping Society Concert 11 11 83 | Contents | Live concert with audience | |||||
| Quality | ||||||||
| Notes | Stereo. Recording of live concert with audience but no indication of when or where. Recording is stopped when applause starts and restarts slightly after beginning of next tune/song so most announcements about performers or titles missed. Publishing rights for Billy Pigg’s tunes are owned by Coquetdale Music (KT) | |||||||
| Help | Confirmation/identification of performers – are there old programmes or advertisements about? Identification of tune. Copyright arrangements for concert? | |||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00-12:20 | New High Level Ranters comprising Jim Hall – NSP Colin Ross – fiddle Johnny Handle – piano and accordion Peter Wood – vocals and concertina | Maggie Lauder tune (in prog as tape starts); The Old Miner (Song) D’Ye Ken John Peel (song); The Surprise (TW Pigg) – played as hornpipe and reel | Concertina fiddle Piano & Accordion singing | The New High Level Ranters were formed after original members Alistair Anderson and Tom Gilfellon left the group. Colin Ross didn’t have a name for the Billy Pigg tune at the time of recording, so he renamed it as The Surprise due to the unusual number of bars in the B part. No doubt the correct title is in the Billy Pigg book CO | MD CO |
| 12:20-20:40 | Ray Fisher (Ross) | The Pressers Miller Tae My Trade The Road to Dundee | Singing self-accompanied by guitar + percussive technique | Ray achieved the percussive effect on Miller Tae My Trade by laying her guitar face-down on her lap and tapping it with alternating beats from her left hand and right elbow. The aim was to mimic the sound of a mill turning. (CO) | MD CO |
| 21:00-37:17 | Two unid pipers | The Breamish Go To Berwick Johnny (announced); The Breamish Go to Berwick Johnny Wedding Shoes (Vickers MS) The Quaker Green Breckons at Branton Blowzabella Blind Mary (comp. Turlough O’Carolan) Champion Hornpipe (James Hill) Unid Air | Northumbrian smallpipes (duet) | I can’t identify the pipers, but the voices of both are audible before their performance begins and they certainly don’t sound like Messrs. Ross and Anderson (who were no longer playing together at that time). Who had won duets competitions in the months preceding this recording? Often winners were invited to participate in the Annual Concert. (CO) | MD CO |
| 37:20-47:34 | Alastair Anderson (See notes) | Unid on concertina; Road to the North (NSP) unid Air for Maurice Ogg – in progress at end of tape | Concertina solo Northumbrian smallpipes | Possible that it’s some or all of the High Level ranters supporting Alistair Anderson in his solo spots. Alistair identified by instruments and tune choice, since he says on Side B that he wrote Jumping Jack. | MD |
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