Every Wednesday @ various locations around
South Shields.
The idea of the Tradition Club is to give traditional musicians (and instrument makers) in and around South Shields a place where they can get together to play and chat.
We have moved from our original venue and are now based in various locations, so please contact via phone or email. The evening starts at around 8.30pm.
Check out the Sets to see some of the tunes we play. It usually tends to be a healthy mix of music from all of our regional traditions, plus the odd foray over the North Sea into various European traditions. Instruments played depend on who turns up, but we've had everything from flutes and whistles, fiddles, concertinas, mandolins, bouzoukis, guitars, uilleann and northumbrian pipes to armenian duduk. We even allowed a bodhran player once!
If you are a traditional musician living in the area and want to become involved you can register your details using the form here. You can also email us at tradition@blueyonder.co.uk, or telephone on 07891 167602.
The club moves locations, so please telephone or email before you come.
Announcements
Updated Monday 23rd Nov
- Ed has fixed the recording upload feature from down under (the wonders of the interweb!) so Tony has been adding a few tunes - particularly Frederic Paris' beautiful 'Le Canal en Octobre'. Also added are a few French and Northumbrian sets, and a transcription from Dinny Delaneys Irish Piping recording in 1900 I think, of Repeal the Union. You can download the original recording at Ross's Music Page, but if you want a version without the hiss and crackle try Harry Bradley's 'Night Rambler's Companion' cd.
Updated Thursday 5th Nov
- Lots of new additions. Some European tunes, mostly French/Breton and a couple of Galician muineira. Tony has started to add tunes so look out for some interesting stuff. Unfortunately the move to a new server back in September seems to have buggered the upload facility for recordings. I've contacted our wandering Kiwi web controller and am awaiting results ...
Updated Friday 15th May
- Loads of new tune sets added recently. The latest are the ones everyone knows except me - The Snowy Path (a hop jig, played slowly and written by Mark Kelly of Altan) and The Munster Cloak (a fast waltz?). I've also added the old De Danann set of Love Will You Marry Me (a fling, in D)/Byrne's Hornpipe, with an old recording of it on mandolin & bouzouki. Other notable additions are Willie Clancy's Fling & The Kilfenora Jig, a set taken from a Danu recording.
Updated Wednesday 18th March
- New set of slip jigs added, taken from the playing of piper Liam O'Flynn - The First Slip/Hardiman the Fiddler #1 & 2/The Yellow Wattle. The last is a good piping double jig.
- The Mason's Apron/Miss McLeod(or Mrs McLeod)- new reels added.
- Archived Recordings from the now defunct Concertina & Squeezebox magazine, at the International Concertina Assoc. website.
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Thanks must go to Gerry for exposing the not insignificant holes in our 'thorough' testing procedures! We would stick to music if we were any good at it!