Kent Gugler’s three comments

I have heard the story of the fight, posted by Zina Lee, with slight variations which solve the timeline puzzle. The harper insulting O‘Carolan was David Murphy, a famed contemporary and composer of the popular “Lord Mayo”. more…

We meet from 7 to 9 Monday evenings. This is a weekly session, open to all kinds of traditional music but especially Celtic, Old Time, and Contra tunes. Fiddler’s Fakebook is commonly used; a player’s tunes of choice may be written out and distributed. more…

A version close to the 3rd one on this page may be found in Part First of Niel Gow’s “Complete Repository of Original Scots Slow Strathspeys and Dances”, which was first published in 1799. It is the third tune on p. more…