09/14/09 Gian Marco Pietrasanta (pantera) sends: "Digerspolkan" a Swedish tune played on a G Alba whistle." (saved in misc)

David Auty sends: "Attached is a tune by Kathryn Tickell a Northumbrian piper. "Our Kate" She has given me permission to use the tune. http://www.kathryntickell.com/ (saved in misc)

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Beautiful tune, David. Is it what you'd call a Northumbrian tune? I mean, it's been composed by someone from there, but is it also in the trad. Northumbrian style?

Kathryn is steeped in the Northumbrian tradition. Not only is she a superb piper, but also a fine fiddler as well. This tune while modern has a definite feel of a Northumbrian tune

To me it invokes the High moorland of the North of England - the best place in the world to be

Geoff

I'm not biased, of course.

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Geoff Walker

Westmoreland (Playford, 1686)

I'm seriously biased, and I agree! Why, I was hobnobbing around Pendle just the week before last. Grand, and I love the way some of those northern tunes are so redolent of the high hills. Uncanny. And so many Northumbrian tunes sit very well on the harmonica too!

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He jested, quaff'd and swore."

They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!