Teviot Bridge jig

My first attempt at submitting a tune – this one from the Athole Collection, as compiled arranged by James Stewart-Robertson. I think it might be in the Cape Breton tradition as well. It’s in A and if you don’t play it too fast it’s a good one to put some swing into, but speed it up and it works even better.

This tune can be found in the Irish tradition as “The Boys Of Ballinafad” (O’Neill, Dance Music of Ireland No.195) and in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection as “The Pivot Bridge” (page 102).

Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington also recorded a different versio of this tune and named it after West Clare flute player Paddy Mullins. It goes like this:

K: Amaj
e|:cBA E2A|F2A E2c|efe edc|d2c Bcd|
cBA E2A|F2A E2c|efe ecA|1 BcB A2B:|2 BcB A2c|
ecB Ace|~f3 fga|ecA AGA|BGE E2c|
ecB Ace|agf e3|AcB A2c|1 BcB A2c:|2 BcB A2||

It seems to be related to the Rambler: https://thesession.org/tunes/510

Ian Anderson of Jedburgh play it like this on banjo:
f|ecA EAA|FAA E2E|EEE E2c|d2c B2f|
ecA EAA|FAA E2c|def ecA|BBB Ae:|
f|ecA ABA|fff fga|ecA AcA|BEE Eef|
ecA BAA|agf edc|def ecA|BBB Ae:|

A concert standard arrangement of Teviot Brig can be found in Weaver MacFarlane’s Choon Book, a free download of charts for 2 fiddle lines, cello, and chords.

Here it here:

https://soundcloud.com/user-155461785/teviot-brig

Download:

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This versions the one i learned from the O’Neill’s 1001 when playing it in a session in Nuernberg