Shetland Rose reel

There is 1 recording of this tune.

Shetland Rose has been added to 12 tunebooks.

Two settings

X: 1
T: Shetland Rose
R: reel

X: 2
T: Shetland Rose
R: reel

Two comments

Shetland Rose

This great tune, written by Esko Järvela after a trip to Shetland, is very much a mashup of the styles of Finland and Shetland. It’s a cross between a reel and a polska, and can be beat either in 3 or in 4 depending on how you feel, as shown in the two different but identical transcriptions. It’s named after the Shetland Rose: not a flower, but the name for empty beer cans found at the side of the street in Shetland.

Re: Shetland Rose

It’s a 16th note polska (xxxx xxxx xxxx|xxxx xxxx xxxx):
http://www.feisgleannalbainn.co.uk/Tunes/Shetland%20Rose.pdf

A friend once called them slip reels. 🙂

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