Fergal Scahill did a year of recording a different tune every day in 2017, I’m sure you’ve all seen it on youtube. He started another one in 2019 but seems to have scrapped it.
Anyone know of any other notable players who have done something similar, fiddlers in particular?
Thanks,
There’s a Canadian woman does a similar series - a mixture of Quebecois, Old Timey, Cape Breton , some Irish - her name is Patsy Kustorok [or something like - I may have misremembered it]
@christy taylor: Yes, Patsy Kusturok. She also plays a few Ukrainian tunes (her own family heritage).
Patti Kusturok plays in ‘Canadian Old Time’ style - think Graham Townsend, Don Messer, et al - and, like them, she grabs good tunes wherever she can find them, and plays them in ‘Canadian Old Time’ style.
Aidan O’Rourke wrote a tune every day for a year inspired by the 365 short stories of James Robertson which were also written every day for a year.
Colin Farrell has been doing a tune a day this year:
https://youtu.be/k4RUKk-u288
and The Half Landing tune a day is happening this year:
https://youtu.be/4XUdxSW7aH4
Katie Davis Henderson did a new tune a day for awhile, starting back 10 years ago or so. Mostly Irish and Old time.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFE86023DBC2064A0
John Whelan did his Mondays With John for a while: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQBJv4Kitt1LV6Gh5k7CeRGDIkVMzf6_A I’ve been meaning to ask if anybody else puts up videos of what are basically solo concerts like that.
John also made over 70 hours of his “Taking Time” session recordings (which I recorded for him) available for free download.
The recordings were then chopped up by a friend of mine into over 400 individual .mp3 files named with the tune names, complete with a spreadsheet listing all the tunes:
John Whelan’s “Taking Time” session recording archive:
http://michaeleskin.com/johnwhelan2021.html
Not really a tune a day, but some great stuff here from fiddler Kevin lees and friends.
https://youtu.be/e1-80u--A1o
Sarah Loughran made 178 videos in her fiddle tune-a-day project: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVSq8qoujp6Rvlb5W3Zt6qoeX8RGELxwm
Kozo Toyota (leader of the Toyota Ceili band that went to the Ennis Fleadh back in 2016) is doing a tune a day. Lovely flutey tunes.
https://youtube.com/c/Ozoktoyota
Cheers,
Melany
Pat Barton( various accordions) has over 1,000 clips:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatBartonAccordion/videos
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin is doing 100 days of tunes at the moment on her Instagram, on fiddle or singing
She’s also presenting a musical travel series around Ireland on TG4 , starting with Dublin
Patti Kusturok’s guest on this particular day introduced me to Duncan Chisholm’s ‘The Farley Bridge’. A lovely tune indeed! Here’s Donna Turk :
https://youtu.be/IxA_hCd7Jss
Starting in March 2020 as the Coronavirus lockdown started, I ‘filmed’‘ myself to ’phone everyday singing a different song for 500 days and posted daily to YouTube/ Facebook. Not trad Irish on the whole though! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTQA6FKyZ_9wcmpWvvIAN4AQDAlVZvPqX
I think Tara Howley may have done one as well
Jon Boden did a “song a day” for a whole year a few years back: he probably accompanied himself on fiddle on some of them.
“All of O’Neill’s 1001” is currently being added to with tunes variously on flute, banjo or whistle. Seems to be approaching the halfway point.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Fipplehead
That Kevin Lees link doesn’t seem to work. I think this one will
https://www.youtube.com/c/thegoodtunes
Paul Anderson (Scottish fiddler) has worked his way through all of James Scott Skinner’s many tunes, then he went on to cover William Marshall’s works and others.. One of his most recent compositions is a Lament for Queen Elizabeth.
Adam Young of Cape Breton wrote a tune a day (and more) and put out a double CD in 1921; it’s called Yearbook. Great stuff!
I didn’t know they had CDs back in the day, along with the 78s and wax cylinders.
