Dusty Strings Jam, 2014/04/13

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Despite it being a beautiful spring day with seemingly everyone in the city doing something outdoors, there was a great turnout at the Dusty Strings jam this month, including players of some instruments we haven’t had before: diatonic accordion and cello!

Tunes played were:

  • Red Haired Boy (A mix)
  • St. Anne’s Reel (D)
  • Tune of the month: Hurlock’s Reel, by Tom Anderson (A)
  • Buffalo Gals (D)
  • The Girl I Left Behind Me (G)
  • Soldier’s Joy (D)
  • Midnight on the Water (D)
  • The Snowy Path, by Mark Kelly (slip jig in D)
  • Finnish Schottische (D harmonic minor?)
    Not the one also known as “Jack in the Green”; I could have sworn I had some notes about this tune, but I can’t find them.
  • Spotted Pony (D)
  • Uncle Pig, by Orville Burns as played by Gary Lee Moore (F)
  • Benny and Bea’s Waltz, by Brenda Wallace (G)
  • Fort Worth Rag (F) — I think?
  • Sleeping Giant Two-Step, by Andy DeJarlis (D)
  • The Long Journey Home (G)
  • Liberty (D)
  • Come Home With The Girls in the Morning (D dor)
  • Tune of a thousand names: Chinky-Pin, Too Young To Marry, Sweet Sixteen, etc (D)
  • Emma (Dm)
  • Boil Them Cabbage Down (A)
  • Sirkoijen Tanssi Schottis, aka “Cricket”, by Albert Israelsson as played by Jeff Anderson (Am)
  • My Own Home/House Waltz (A)
  • Red Wing (G)
  • Great Eastern Reel (D)
  • Boil them Cabbage variation, sounded Texas-style
  • Korolenko (1st Part), by Jean-Paul Loyer (jig in G)
  • Road to Batoche, by Andy DeJarlis as played by Mike Page (Em)
  • Will The Circle Be Unbroken (G)
  • Hurlock’s Reel (reprise)
  • Cluck Old Hen (A)

It was a good month for new tunes — 8 of those hadn’t been played at this jam before.