... if it doesn't give you a smirk, there's probably not much hope for ya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBa1k3-g1to
This is in Newfoundland, by the way.
Now that there's some fancy rhythmical bowing. :)
Cheer up for a gray winter day :-)
hmm I KNOW that tune.
Like, I found that I could play along...I have learned it somewhere, somehow...
My ears/fingers know it, but my brain forgot its name!
Usually known as Praties are Dug and the Frost is All Over, or some variation thereof.
That DID cheer me up. That boy seems to have a few things going for him. One, he obviously likes that style of music, two, he is not afraid to get up in front of a crowd, three, he is a good dancer and, FOUR, he seems to be handling his alcohol pretty well...I'd say.
Edited by - TuneWeaver on 01/20/2022 13:35:11
LOL! Yeah, those big fellas can usually hold their liquor! Congratulations, Lee - I'm sending that one off to me brudder - he spent some years in Newfoundland, and says this about a 'comment' posted below the video: 'Someone's comment was "Thats my papa..." I hope he wasn't referring to the kid, but on the Port au Port, I'm not too sure.'
Edited by - Old Scratch on 01/20/2022 14:08:09
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Originally posted by Old ScratchLOL! Yeah, those big fellas can usually hold their liquor! Congratulations, Lee - I'm sending that one off to me brudder - he spent some years in Newfoundland, and says this about a 'comment' posted below the video: 'Someone's comment was "Thats my papa..." I hope he wasn't referring to the kid, but on the Port au Port, I'm not too sure.'
I try to help!!
It was interesting to me that the spoon player kept changing legs, like one was a snare and one was a tom.
I've watched this several times and I guess that's "Praties" all right, with a little hitch between parts.
Also, the young man's dancing has grown on me - he's responding to rhythms in the music pretty well I think.
Here's another great version of this tune, with some lyrics: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbM3KtWQwsI
Edited by - DougD on 01/20/2022 17:20:20
Thanks Old Scratch, yea, I learnt it as "The Frost is All Over" out of a fiddle tunebook I had! Mystery solved!
Interesting that it has a second name, too, I had not heard that one. Thanks!
Pleasure's all mine!
In case this one is wearing off, here's another good 'un.
Well, thanks for that! Always liked that recording; never saw "the video", though - what a treat!
That's "Mac Beattie and the Ottawa Valley Melodiers" - he always had a great fiddler; for many years it was Ward Allen, from south-western Ontario, who composed Maple Sugar. Then there was Reg Hill, from Nova Scotia. Don't know who it is on this recording.
Mac Beattie wrote lots of great songs, particularly the up-tempo ones, like this one. There are also a lot of songs set to waltzes; the lyrics of those tend to be formulaic - memories of love associated with some particular river or lake, that kind of thing. Canada being what it is, he is virtually unknown outside the Ottawa Valley.
Here's one with Reg Hill on fiddle, about a fiddler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y09UU4Rg64A&list=PLaYYgdalEO7AJikAzohlnwdVsJafqdqiB&index=15
And, no fiddle on this one, but it's one of my favourites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb5kIqdXk8A
