andrewhaught

I decided to try something diffrent with this video. A while back I had bought A fake beard and was waiting for the right time to use it.Mission accomplished.

Here is a video of my performance at Clifftop. I was playing Durang’s Hornpipe, one of my favorites. Thanks to Dan Levenson for the footage.

I’ll be putting on a concert this friday (the 9th), at pour jons.

Me and my Dad made some posters for the concert, it was really fun.                                We used a method called screen printing where you create a mask(made of butchers paper) and then pull ink over the top of a silk screen. then i stamped the letters and numbers over that.

On Friday I made up another tune on the piano.

I called it County Claire. I always liked that name so when I wrote this tune I used it.

Enjoy!

This is a great tune that i learned recently. I really love the chord progression.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwqF-wD1-ew

A brief history of the tune.

The tune originated in Britain as a slow 3/4 time song tune from c. 1710 or earlier, called “O Dear Mother (Minnie) What Shall I Do? He sees the development of the tune as having then split into two branches, and that during the 1740′s a 6/8 “giga” or jig form was composed called variously “All the Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border,”  Later in the century the second branch was fashioned from the original 3/4 tune into a fast duple time (4/4) dancing air which went by several titles including “The Braes of Auchtertyre/Auchentyre” (the oldest and most common title), Early American printings of the piece can be found from the early 19th century onwards. The melody appears under the “Billy/Low Grounds” title in George P. Knauff ‘s Virginia Reels,” volume III (Baltimore, 1839)

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