D Julie Ann Johnson (md) / D New Five Cents (hd) / D Fortune (md)
3X's each (adjustable); fiddle break at end of JAJ (whole B part), all melody
start New Five Cents,guitar/banjo duet start Fortune
1
2
D Shoo Fly (md) / Amix Kitchen Girl (hd) / D Angeline the Baker (hd)
Shoo
Fly: Karl accordion; Kitchen Girl: start quiet & non-chordal, Karl switch
to guitar; Angeline: K to bouzouki
2
3
G Booth Shot Lincoln (hd) / G The Girl I Left Behind (hd) / G Seneca Square Dance
(md)
if singing, note AABB (sing starting 2nd A) also
faster Booth and watch speed on Seneca
1
4
D Rock the Cradle, Joe (md) / D Petronella (hd) / D Jay Bird (hd)
1
5
Amix June Apple (md) / A Shady
Grove (md) / A Tater Patch (md)
Karl slap guitar for A
part of tater patch
2
6
D Spotted
Pony (md) / D Dubuque (md) abde|d, / D Yellow Rose of Texas (md)
NEEDS
EMPHASIS ON YELLOW ROSE START TO DISTINGUISH
2
7
D Buck Mountain (hd) / D Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine (hd) / G Green
Mountain Petronella (hd)
Paul change banjoes between Grasshopper
and Green Mountain; play to end of Grasshopper, then start Green Mountain as fiddle
duet one full repetition of tune
2
8
G Nail that Catfish (md) / Amin Ducks on the Pond (md) / D Soldier's Joy (md)
Make
sure we have Ducks right. Paul will sit out on Catfish. [B,B, A,B,
CBA, B,,,]
1
9
A Bill Cheatham (hd) / A Little
Dutch Girl (hd) / A Stay All Night (md)
All melody and
no fiddles to start Little Dutch Girl; All melody at start of Stay All Night
1
10
Dm Bourree de Nonhant (hd) / D Liberty (hd) / G Old
Mother Flanagan (md)
(Paul will sit out the last part
of Liberty.) (it seems reasonable to learn the Hungarian
dance and return this set to its original: A Old Mother Flanagan / D Liberty /
Dm Hungarian Dance to eliminate the redundancy with set F.D.B.#2)
2
11
G Georgia Railroad / G Billy in the Low Land / G Shove That Pig's Foot a Little
Further into the Fire
2
12
D Mississippi Sawyer (md) / Amodal Cold Frosty Morning (md) / D Johnny Don't Get
Drunk (md)
all start unison on Johnny
1
13
D West Fork Girls / G/D Reel de Montreal / G Big Scioti (sung A part, inst. A
part, etc.)
1
14
D Ton Reuben
Blue / D Rock the Cradle Lucy / Am Sally in the Garden
1
15
D Katy Bar the Door / G Swinging
on a Gate (hd) / Ddor Julia Delany
(D)
Egan's / (G) Polka du Lot / (D) Bill Sullivan's
2
6.
2
Scaninavian
Polkas
4
Zorros Märke - "The Mark of Zorro" - Am - usually medleyed with
Myllypolkka, but it's deeply crooked.
5
Polkett
efter Gustav i Backen - cute, easy, in D
6
Fritsom
Polkka - in C/F - a nice little thing I've always wanted to learn
7
"Låten
Overom Kvinten" - "Tune up on the E string" - Polkett efter Emil
Carlstadt, Stensele, Norrbotten - in C/D/A - LOTS OF SPUNK!!
8
Fyris
Anders Stjuls - A - it just rolls along.
9
Hyttstens Polkett - D - one of my go-to tunes when all else fails, easy, but doesn't
sound boring.
#
Double Bourette
Notes
Set
1
D Gaston Pommiere / Am Karl's Tune / D Bourree Malochet.
2
#
32 Bar Slip Jigs (not common in contra, but possible)
Notes
Set
1
Em
Butterfly (ABAC). / D Foxhunter's / Butterfly (Reprise)
2
#
Waltz
Notes
Set
1
D Tennessee/Amelia's: (Amelia's: DF#E/DF#E/DF#B/A...)
Paul/Leeanne
start Amelia's
1
2
D O'Hara's
Cup: (D DF# AF#/BA GF# EF#...)
start Karl solo B part
tag
2
3
D Cowboy Waltz/Irene Goodnight
vs1: Sometimes I live in the country... vs2: Last
Saturday night... vs3: I love Irene, God knows I do; vs4: Quit yr rambling;
quit yr gambling, Quit staying out late at night! Go home to your wife
and your family, & Sit down by the fireside bright.
2
4
D Si Beag Si Mor (h/m) / Lord Inchiquin (md) (disputed note: F# throughout, except
for a G in the 2nd half of the B part)
1. D Karis Pers Polska: (A AB AG/GF# F#D F#A...) (md) Accordion
2
2
Sprättmaken
- D - sprightly - almost a mazurka
3
Hambo
from Lomträsk - G - gentle
4
Hamopusten
- G - (puste means to gasp for air) - but the musicians don't have to work all
that hard!
5
Skinnbracka
med lucku - "Leather Britches with a Hatch"- D
5
Saturday
Night Hambo
#
Tango
Notes
Set
1.
Am/A - Tango des Fauvettes (Tango of the Warblers) youtube.com
New Sets Forming
Notes
Set
reel
Blind Steer in
a Mudhole / Indian Nation
march
March of St. Timothy,
Riding on a Load of Hay
rag
*F Stone's Rag /
C Billy in the Low Ground / C Stone's Rag
Peter does
not play this set yet.
double boure
? / Bourree de Nonhant (Dm)
/ Bourree Carree de la Chartres (D)
slipjig
Rocky
Road to Dublin (Em Dorian) / Kid on the Mountain (Em Dorian) (with the fourth
part omitted) / Rocky Road (Reprise)
i wasn't aware
there was a full third part for rocky road aside from the chorus tag (which is
only 2 or 3 measures). maybe Paul can teach the third part. we could use the first
and second parts alternately to create a 16 bar slip jig that would fit naturally
into a 32 bar set, or if there is a complete third part, we might use the form
ABAC to get a less repetitive 32 bar effect (but that from someone who doesn't
even know the third part.)
polka
Shoes & Stockings (G) / Over the
Waterfall (D) / Waiting for Nancy (D Mix) (all on MD)
reel
Katy Bar
the Door (D) / Julia Delaney (D Dorian) / Swinging on a Gate (G) (all on HD)
jigs
2 GALICIAN
MUNEIRAS (jigs) Muneira de Poio / Buxos Verdes (C or D)
These
are in 6/8 time and sound like jigs in rhythm, but have a different quality. Very
happy and upbeat--and less complex melodies than jigs.
rag
(F) Sweet
Georgia Brown / (C) Five-Foot-Two / (C) Ain't She Sweet
march
Rally
Round the Flag (Battle Hymn of Freedom) / Year of Jublio / Golden Slippers
reel
(D) Engelska
fr. Stigtomta (aka Soldier's Joy) / (Amix) Lady
of the Lake / (D) Cuckoo's Nest
polka
Denis
Murphy's / 42 Pound Cheque / John Ryan's (D)
Wild
Tunes
OLD TIMEY/AMERICAN/FRENCH
CANADIAN:
(D) Over the Waterfall (HD or MD) St Anne's Reel
Staten Island Hornpipe Waiting for Nancy (MD) Whiskey Before Breakfast
Lady of the Lake (D/A Mix) (MD or HD) Flop Eared Mule (D/A) Green Willis
(MD) Gaspe Reel La Bastringue (MD) Dulcimer Reel (HD) Waynesboro
Fisher's Hornpipe Forked Deer Goin' to Boston (MD) Merina (by
Lee Anne--key?) Sara (by Lee Anne--key?)
(G) Lady of the Lake
Sandy River Belle Shoes & Stockings (MD) Colored Aristocracy (G) (HD)
Pig Town Fling (G-2 part version) (MD) The Great High Wind (E Dorian--from
Indiana)
(A) Boatman Sandy Boys (HD)
IRISH JIGS:
(D)
Rambling Pitchfork (HD) Going to the Well for Water (HD) Scattery Island
(goes great with "Going to the Well for Water") Moon & 7 Stars
(HD) My Darling Asleep (MD) New Rigged Ship (Scottish) (MD) Off She
Goes Banks of the Allen (Scottish) (MD) Eighlin's Slide Banish Misfortune
Blarney Pilgrim
(G) Haunted House (HD) Saddle the Pony (MD)
(A
Dorian) Scatter the Mud (HD) Lilting Banshee (HD)
(E Dorian)
Morrison's (HD) Trip to Sligo Road to Lisdoon Varna
Battering Ram
Caliope House Connaughtman's Rambles Coleman's Haste to the Wedding
Idle Road Lark in the Morning Quaker's Wife Tater Jack Walsh Tell
Her I Am Trip to Sligo
WALTZES (Irish. Old Time, French, Galician&
by Lee Anne) Waiting for Peter (Dm) (HD) Captain O'Kane (Em) (MD)
En Avant Blonde (A Dorian waltz) La Bruja (Bm) (MD) La Marianne (D) (MD/HD)
Rose (D) (MD/HD) Peeler Creek (G) (MD) Waltz of the Little Girls (D) (MD/HD)
Rose (D) (MD/HD) Vals Diatonico (C) (HD) Raphael (by Lee Anne) (MD) Here's
to the Maiden O'Carolan #179 Midsummer Valse Meunster Cloak Trip
We Took Over the Mountain Give Me Your Hand
Slip Jigs Choice
Wife Another Jig Will Do Kid on the Mountain
IRISH REELS
(D) Castle Connell Lasses Concertina Reel
Dick Gossip's Jackie Coleman's Lady Anne Montgomery Maid Behind the
Bar Rakish Paddy Trip to Durrow Wind that Shakes the Barley Wullafjord
(G)
Banshee Father Kelly's Traveler (aka Walker Sreet) Sheehan's Sally
Gardens Congress Reel Kitty's Wedding Temperence Reel
(A) Timour
the Tartar (aka Peter Street) Sleep Soond in the Morning (A Dorian)
(D
Dorian & Dm) Tamlin
(E Dorian) Cooley's Ships are Sailing
Dunmore Lasses Tarbolton
(Bm) Earl's Chair
Maids of Michaelston
Merry Blacksmith Millers Reel Morning Dew Red Crow Silver Spear
Sword in Hand Wise Maid
Hornpipes Balquidder Lasses Bird
in the Yard Boys of Blue Hill Boy in the Boat Byrne's Hornpipe
Chief O'Niel's Favorite George Brabizon Home Ruler King of the Fairies
Off to California Petronella Stack of Barley Staten Island Hnp.
White Blanket
MISC. POLKAS
(D) John Ryan's Dennis
Murphy's Bill Sullivan's Rose Tree Rigadon Bressan Dingle Regatta
(A
Dorian) Tralee Gael
(G) Maggie in the Woods The Murroe
(C) Polka de Grand Rouge
FRENCH 2/4 BOURREES (D or G) Les
Moutons Avant de s'en Aller Bourree Carree de la Chartres Sur les
Hautes de la Montagnes G
Bal Musette Petit Bal de la Marine"
(Am/G) "Petit Vals" (plus harmony/counter melody) (C) youtube.com
GALICIAN
MUNEIRAS (jigs) (C or D): Muneira de Poio, Buxos Verdes
HAMBOS "Swingy
French Mazurka" (# 75 in Mel Stevens' MASSIF CENTRAL TUNE BOOK # 1) Horgalaten
RAGS Beaumont
Rag Chinese Breakdown Crapshooter's Rag Fiddle Rag Peacock Rag
Red Apple Rag Safe Harbor Rag Sugar Tree Stomp Redwing Sweet Georgia
Brown
Words
SOLDIER'S JOY
Twenty
five cents for the whiskey, Twenty five cents for the beer Twenty five
cents for morphine Gonna get me out of here
CHO: Chicken in
a bread pan scratching that dough Granny does your dog bite? No, child, no!
Daddy lost mojo a long time ago All for the soldier's joy
I am my momma's pride and joy (3X) Sing a little song called the soldier's
joy (CHO)
Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine (3X) Along
come a chicken and he's say your mine.(CHO)
I'm gonna get you there
don't you want to go (3X) All for the soldoer's joy (CHO)
GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Peter and I we went fishin' Georgia Railroad I am bound;
Caught a big mud-cat, put him in the kitchen, Georgia Railroad, Georgia
gal.
I led sheep up to the pasture, Georgia Railroad I am bound;
But my gal said: "Sheep can't you go a little faster", Georgia
Railroad, Georgia gal.
Sheep said: "Cow, I have a sore toe",
Georgia Railroad I am bound; Cow said: "Sheep, I did not know",
Georgia Railroad, Georgia gal.
ROCK THE CRADLE LUCY
Rock
the cradle Lucy, Rock the cradle high, Rock the cradle Lucy, stick your finger
in the baby's eye.
Rock the cradle Lucy, Rock the cradle high,
Rock the cradle Lucy, don't you let that baby cry.
Rock the cradle
Lucy, Rock the cradle low, Rock the cradle Lucy, don't you let that baby go.
SOUTHWIND
South
wind of the gentle rain, you banish winter weather Bring salmon to the pool
again, the bees among the heather If northward now you mean to blow, as you
rustle soft above me God speed be with you as you go and a kiss for those that
love me
From south I come with velvet breeze, my word all nature
blesses, I melt the snow and strew the leaves with flowers and warm caresses; I'll
help you to dispel your woes, with joy I'll take your greeting And bear it
to your loved Mayo upon my wings so fleeting.
Ny Connaught,
famed for wine and play, so leal, so gay, so loving Here's my fond kiss I send
today borne on the wind in its roving. Those Munster folk are good and kind,
right royally they treat me But this land I'd gladly leave behind, with your
Connaught pipes to greet me.
BIG SCIOTI
Born
and raised in Ohio Where I'm bound for I don't know You stay home with
the baby-o You stay home with the baby-o
Chorus: East and
West that highway rolls Lord have mercy on a poor boy's soul Miss my
blue eyed baby-o Miss my blue eyed baby-o
I've lived on the
river all my life Ain't known nothin' but toil an strife I can't go home
again I can't go home again
The river's wide and oh so deep
The banks are muddy and oh so steep Better not go at night-o Better
not go at night-o
The river's deep and the river's wide I can't
see nothin' on the other side I can't go home again I can't go home
again
When I come home from far away You can go and I will stay
I will stay with the baby-o I will stay with the baby-o
JAYBIRD
Jay bird, jaybird sitting on a twig, Play your fiddle and dance a jig.
Jay bird, jaybird sitting on a log, Play your fiddle and dance a clog.
WEST
FORK GIRLS
West Fork girls, last time I seen them down in West Virginia,
West Fork girls, last time I seen them down in Tennessee.
The fiddler "potatoes" us in. Karl initiates
tune changes. When Peter (dulcimers) changes instruments, he will always drop
out for the new tune, then come in second rep. When Paul (banjo) changes
instruments, he will always drop out on the last tune, come in on the new tune.
Peak Nouveau (Paul Clarke, Karl Franzen,
Peter Tommerup, Lee Anne Welch or Sarah Kirton) play Celtic and Old-timey music
for your dancing pleasure.
Paul Clarke, one of the founding members
of Harmon's Peak, studied pipe organ and classical music in the 1960s, and began
playing clawhammer banjo by accident in 1978.
Karl Franzen, another
founder of Harmon's Peak, plays guitar, mandolin, recorder, pennywhistle, boudrain,
accordian, voice, and various other acoustic instruments. He was a member of other
bands including Four Shillings Short and Broceliande, and appears on numerous
CDs.
Peter Tommerup plays hammered and mountain dulcimers
in mostly Celtic (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Shetland, Galician, Manx, Cornish)
and Old-timey styles. He teaches at Grypon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto,
and has published books on playing dulcimer and released two CDs. Amazingly, he
has managed to combine his love and study of folk music and folk tales to earn
a Ph.D. in Folklore & Mythology at UCLA -- music *is* his "Day Job"!
Lee Anne Welch is an award-winning fiddler and founding member of
the acclaimed Bay Area bluegrass band Sidesaddle & Co. (named this year's
"Bluegrass Band of the Year" by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
Sidesaddle has played at the Palo Alto contra for many years, and is a fixture
at Bay Area bluegrass festivals, and a popular opening band for many big-name
players, including John Hartford, Bill Monroe, Emmy Lou Harris, and others. Lee
Anne also plays in the dance bands, Luceo, Bandemonium, and Sorcerer's Apprentice,
a group she started to teach her fiddle students how to play for contra dances.
---Long
Bios---
PAUL CLARKE
I grew up listening to classical music.
My maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather were both accomplished musicians,
my grandmother being organist and choir director in a church where my maternal
grandfather was pastor. While in high school I took up guitar and had lessons
for about a year.
In the early sixties at Pacific University I continued
playing guitar and studied pipe organ. While there I was exposed to folk and bluegrass
music, but remained focused on classical music. I worked as a pipe organ tuner
and repairer both before and after military service, until learning that I could
make a good living programming computers. It wasn't until about 1978 that I was
accidentally introduced to accomplished clawhammer banjo playing because of dropping
an evening> class in computer science. I immediately wanted to learn the style.
I took lessons for three or four months and then proceeded to play alone in my
living room for the next six years or so.
Eventually I learned of the Santa
Cruz Bluegrass Society (now Northern California Bluegrass Society) and the Santa
Clara Valley Fiddlers Association. I started attending jams and discovered after
a few months that I could play along with other musicians. My interest in folk
music and folk instruments having been aroused I started attending performances
by groups like Four Schillings Short at coffee houses and restaurants. I met Ernest
Kinsolving, who had recently left Four Schillings Short, at a jam, and he introduced
me to Karl Franzen. The three of us started playing together, and after a while
Art Friedman joined us to form Harmon's Peak.
I still play guitar a little,
but most of my time with music is spent on the banjo. I have also started playing
octave mandolin and banjo in a Santa Cruz based band called Page Brownton and
Sidetrack, but most of my musical activities involve playing contra dances with
musicians I've met in and through Harmon's Peak and the SCVFA
KARL
FRANZEN
I grew up in the 60's playing guitar and listening to Celtic/American
folk (Vanguard and Columbia Recordings) and European classical music (old 78 records)
in rural Western Massachusetts. I took some private lessons but I am mostly self
taught from books, records, observation and experimentation. I have a persistant
desire, from my teen age years, to play for country dances.
Currently I
play with the contra band Peak Nouveau and the folksy duo Mr. Barky (with Ernest
Kinsolving. I also occasionally play with singer and lutenist Lady Doris Williams
and Mike Bell. Guitar, pennywhistle, harmonica, and hand drums are among the instruments
that I play. I also sing many old songs. I have arranged 60+ O'Carolan pieces
for classical guitar.
I also help wholistic health practicioners construct
and maintain websites, I sometimes teach music (when I encounter someone who wants
to learn). I semi-regularly attend the Fandango Jam Session in Palo Alto.
LEE
ANNE WELCH
Lee Anne Welch (fiddle) is a founding member and thirty-year
mainstay of the acclaimed Bay Area bluegrass band Sidesaddle & Co., named
this year's "Bluegrass Band of the Year" by the Northern California
Bluegrass Society. Sidesaddle has seven recordings to its credit, including two
that made the top ten national Bluegrass charts in the year of their release.
They're a fixture at Bay Area bluegrass festivals, and a popular opening band
for many big-name players, including John Hartford, Bill Monroe, Emmy Lou Harris,
and others. http://www.sidesaddleandco.com.
Lee Anne grew up in Saratoga, California and earned her BA in music from
University of California, Santa Cruz in 1977. For several years she was a member
of the Santa Cruz Symphony and the Carmel Valley Opera Orchestra. Since 1979 she
has focused her energy on traditional Celtic and American folk music. She is a
founding member and thirty-year mainstay of the acclaimed Bay Area bluegrass band
Sidesaddle & Co. http://www.sidesaddleandco.com.
She also plays in the dance bands, Luceo, Bandemonium, and Sorcerer's Apprentice,
a group she started to teach her fiddle students how to play for contra dances
PETER
TOMMERUP Hammered and Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer from Saratoga,
California.
Peter has been teaching and performing on mountain and hammered
dulcimer since 1977. He mostly plays Celtic (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Shetland,
Galician, Manx, Cornish) and Old Timey American instrumental tunes, but also some
songs, and a bit of contemporary stuff. He currently teaches at Gryphon Stringed
Instruments (Palo Alto, CA), and is working on a book with Neal Hellman &
Michael Rugg (formerly of CapriTaurus dulcimers) called THE CELTIC DULCIMER ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Previously wrote "TEACH YOURSELF TO PLAY THE DULCIMER" (Kicking Mule).
Albums include "PETER TOMMERUP & FRIENDS" and a new CD with his
band, SLAINTE ("cheers" in Irish Gaelic) called "ALONG CELTIC LINES".
He has taught at Appalachian Dulcimer Week at Boone, NC; Summer Solstice and Dulcimer
Festival, Los Angeles, CA; Blackpoint Camp of Oldtime and Traditional Music, Novato,
CA; Eel River Music Camp, Mendecino area of CA; and co-founded Red Wood Dulcimer
Day, Santa Cruz, CA.
"The first person I heard play the mountain dulcimer
was Guy Carawan in 1973 in a Folklore class he taught when I was in college. This
inspired me to spend time meeting mountain and hammered dulcimer players in Appalachia
in 1974. That's when I really fell in love with both dulcimers."
"A
couple of years later, I bumped into some really hot mountain dulcimer players
in the Santa Cruz Mountains in CA, who pioneered a particular approach to chord-melody
playing that included playing in multiple keys and modes without using a capo,
and doing lots of very up tempo fiddle tunes (Mike Rugg and other folks at CapriTaurus
Dulcimers). At that point, I was hooked!"
"Since then, I've arranged
and written up several hundred Irish, Old Time, French and Scandinavian tunes,
and taught hundreds of folks to play over the last 33 years at classes, workshops
and festivals. Most recently, I've been working on French tangos, and playing
in a contra dance band in the Silicon Valley area. Oh, and I released a couple
of albums with my wife, Lee Anne (a wonderful fiddler), and some other musical
friends over the last 3 decades. And I studied folk music, folk tales, and organizational
culture in the course of getting a Ph.D. in Folklore & Mythology at UCLA."
"And,
I still REALLY love playing both dulcimers!"
