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curiouswombat ([personal profile] curiouswombat) wrote2012-05-06 05:39 pm
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Music; Alistair Anderson, Richard Thompson & Kathryn Tickell... and Albannach!

I was looking on YouTube for Kathryn Tickell as I wanted some Northumbrian pipe music, as you do. Then I found this, and watching Alistair Anderson immediately had me back, in the company of [livejournal.com profile] dougalsservant, in the 1970s at the High Level Folk Club on the banks of the Tyne where, as one of the High Level Ranters, he was a regular.

Here is a man who puts both body and soul into playing his concertina - and he's wearing rather well, too - this was filmed at the concert for his 60th birthday.

What's more - you get Kathryn Tickell, as originally sought, Alistair also playing the small pipes - and Richard Thompson. What could be better?







And - as a second course, very, very, different, here are Albannach playing at the Millport Maritime Festival on the island of Cumbrae.







What I really would like is someone playing Northumbrian pipes to those drums.... but that track is pretty close to what I am trying to imagine. And yes, Elves, Solstice, and Dancing might have been in my mind...

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