Maxwell Brown and Andrew Vogts illustrate what Maxwell has learned as a young fiddle player
Wow, when I hear this and watch this young boy playing I do not just think but am convinced there is something greater in life than human reason can understand.
That was so magical <3 <3<3
Thank you so much for sharing this!
For a little different take on this tune, here's the great English dancer Wayne Sleep impersonating John Durang dancing "his" hornpipe: youtu.be/R00hTz9srto?feature=shared
Durang was an artist, stage designer, and pupeteer as well as a dancer. His memoirs contain watercolors of his set designs and costumes, which were the basis for this recreation. There are also YouTubes of hornpipe competitions at modern Scottish Highland games.
I looked just the other day, and "Ryan's Mammoth Collection," published in 1883 (?) contains 61 pages of hornpipes, but outside of a few areas, they are hardly ever played today in the US, except for "Fisher's," "Ricketts," and "Durang's". And when they are, they're played more like reels than a traditional hornpipe, at least in the South.
I forgot to add that "College Hotnpipe" is still played today, but it was played so often for this type of dance performance that it has become known as the "Sailor's Hornpipe."
