North Antrim Music

This is a set of Scottish 2/4 Marches which I recorded at one of our weekly Saturday night Pub Session of Ballads & Tunes in Bushmills, Co. Antrim.

You can hear Alan Wade chatting with about his Scottish Smallpipes here: Alan Wade

Our Saturday night Session group in Bushmills, with Alan Wade with his Scottish Smallpipes front left & Sam Fleming with his Northumbrian Pipes centre front.

Musicians: Alan Wade: Scottish Smallpipes Dick Glasgow: Fiddle Sabine Glasgow: Harp Riley Piddington: Guitar Desi Hasson: Bodhran

Scottish 2/4 Marches:

The Pipers Cave Music

Highland Laddie Music

No Name

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This is a set of Scottish 6/8 Marches which I recorded at one of our weekly Saturday night Pub Session of Ballads & Tunes in Bushmills, Co. Antrim.

You can hear Alan Wade chatting with Anne Morrison-Smyth about his Scottish Smallpipes here: Alan Wade

Scad the Beggars

Musicians: Alan Wade: Scottish Smallpipes Dick Glasgow: Fiddle Sabine Glasgow: Harp Riley Piddington: Guitar Desi Hasson: Bodhran

Scottish 6/8 Marches:

Major A.C.W. May's Welcome

Pipe Major Donald MacLean of Lewis Music

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This track features Co. Antrim Uilleann Piper John Hughes & myself on Fiddle, playing in session at my wee Causeway Dulcimer Festival, in Bushmills, back in 2005.

John was playing a Flat Set of Pipes, so I had tuned my Fiddle down to suit, which, as far as I am concerned, is never a bother & always a pleasure.

Dick Glasgow & John Hughes

JIG: When Sick is it Tea You Want Music

JIG: Down the Back Lane Music

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This track features Co. Antrim Uilleann Piper John Hughes & myself on Fiddle, playing in session at my wee Causeway Dulcimer Festival, in Bushmills, back in 2005.

John was playing a Flat Set of Pipes, which were somewhere around C, so I had tuned my Fiddle down to suit, which, as far as I am concerned, is never a bother & always a pleasure.

Here is a link to a video clip of John Hughes & myself playing one of these Reels in concert, at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival.

Video: Hand me Down the Tackle

John Hughes

Reel: Hand Me Down the Tackle Music

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I recorded this set of three tunes back in 2006, with myself on my Oakwood Mandolin & friend Sam Fleming on his Northumbrian Pipes, especially for Aidan Crossey's great Mandolin resource: An Maindilin.

Sam Fleming playing his Northumbrian Pipes: Video

There aren't too many Northumbrian Pipes being played regularly at Irish Sessions, but we always have one & sometimes as many as three sets joining us at our Bushmills Session.

Cheers, Dick

Dick Glasgow: Oakwood Mandolin. Sam Fleming: Northumbrian Pipes.

Reel: Salmon Tails up the Water Music

Reel: Reel of Tullochgorum {Jimmy Allan} Music

Reel: Winster Gallop Music

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I recorded this set of three tunes back in 2006, with myself on my Oakwood Mandolin & friend Sam Fleming on his Northumbrian Pipes, especially for Aidan Crossey's great Mandolin resource: An Maindilin.

The first & last tune are Traditional Tunes, while the title of the middle one is actually from a Geordie Music Hall song written by Joe Wilson in 1871, to the tune Darling Nelly Grey, so with enough age to at least give it antique value , but of course by now it has long been accepted into the tradition.

Sam Fleming & Colin Ross at the Causeway Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, 2005.

There aren't too many Northumbrian Pipes being played regularly at Irish Sessions, but we always have one & sometimes as many as three sets of Pipes, joining us at our Saturday night Sessions in Bushmills.

Sam Fleming & Grandson Matthew playing Northumbrian Pipes: Video

Cheers, Dick

Dick Glasgow: Oakwood Mandolin. Sam Fleming: Northumbrian Pipes.

Reel: The Keel Row Music

Reel: Keep Yer Feet Still Geordie Music

Reel: Hexham Races Music

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I learned this tune from an old recording of Cloughmills Fiddle player & Singer Paddy 'Stumpy' Mc Cluskey.

I put together a few local musicians, arranged this track & a number of others, as musical background for a CD of North Antrim Rhymes, Whun a' the Kye had Names, which local rhymer Charlie Gillen put together, back in 2000.

Cheers, Dick

Musicians: Dick Glasgow: Tenor Banjo. Robert Watt: Scottish Smallpipes. Valerie Quinn & Emma Culbert: Piano Accordions. Sabine Glasgow: Harp. Paul McAuley: Bodhran. Kevin Glasgow: Acoustic Bass.

Reel: Jenny Pawned Her Bonnet

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I learned these tunes from an old recording of Cloughmills Fiddle player & Singer Paddy 'Stumpy' Mc Cluskey.

The first tune was used for the Old Set, so on the recording Paddy played it more like a Quadrille, but I've cranked up the tempo here, just a little, to bring it up to Hornpipe speed.

Cheers, Dick

Dancing a Quadrille

Musicians: Dick Glasgow: Fiddle. Robert Watt: Low Whistle. Sabine Glasgow: Harp. Paul McAuley: Bodhran.

Hornpipe: My Love She's Gone Away

Jig: Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part Music

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Local North Antrim Rhymer Charlie Gillen wrote this rhyme Oot Here Mae Lane & I arranged three of my own Waltzes, Rathlin Sound, Rathlin Ferry & Angela's Waltz, to be played behind it in this recording, as a musical background.

In 2000, I put together a few local musicians, arranged this track & a number of others, as musical background for a CD of North Antrim Rhymes, Whun a' the Kye had Names, which local rhymer Charlie Gillen put together.

Charlie Gillen

Cheers, Dick

Rathlin Island

Musicians: Dick Glasgow ~ Fiddle. Valerie Quinn & Emma Culbert ~ Piano Accordions. Sabine Glasgow ~ Harp.

Waltz: Rathlin Sound

Waltz: Rathlin Ferry

Waltz: Angela's Waltz

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I put these two old traditional tunes together & arranged this track for a CD of North Antrim Rhymes, Whun a' the Kye had Names, local Rhymer Charlie Gillen was putting together, back in 2000.

Cheers, Dick

Ballymoney, North Antrim

Musicians: Dick Glasgow: Concertina. Robert Watt: Whistle. Valerie Quinn & Emma Culbert: Piano Accordions. Sabine Glasgow: Harp. Paul McAuley: Bodhran.

March: Farewell to Ballymoney

March: Long Cookstown

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