Jun. 28th, 2008

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Following on from parts 1 & 2...

Contata )

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] redaxe, [livejournal.com profile] dvtune and [livejournal.com profile] gorgeousgary for loan of guitars, and to [livejournal.com profile] ladymondegreen for letting me have a concert set! I had a BALL!

Next time, though? Bringing my own guitar!
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Since several folks asked, I will be putting up an MP3 of Three Days Away from my Duckon set (recorded by [livejournal.com profile] phillip2637, to whom many thanks) just as SOON as I can get it off the MacBook!

[Edit] ... or from Philip. Here you go.
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A couple of decades ago, when Anne and I were first starting to work up a shared repertoire of music, I bought her a book by Michael Raven with settings of various folk tunes for recorder. One of them was a lovely, simple modal Welsh melody called Lisa Lân, which I really wished had words, and rather stuck in my brain - it's something I often noodle on in dropped-D kind of tunings on guitar.

Today, having spent a good half hour fiddling with it in "cheater's DADGAD", on a whim I Googled for it, and found both the original Welsh words and a translation, and a very nice live version by Cerys Matthews (ex- of Catatonia). Sadly, the translation was very literal, and unsingable...

So I set to work.

Lisa Lân )

Guitar notes - not for the faint of heart... )

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