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Hi, Johnny. Great tune.

Niall cut a lesson on that one…his lesson on The Gravel Walks is up next, but we’ll move Caliope up to be produced for him after that.

Stay tuned!
Casey

Thanks for the new Andre reel!!! Awesome tune of course 🙂

Kevin Burke playing Sean Ryan’s The Castle
And Sean Ryan’s The nightingale

Thank you Casey – I’ve been really enjoying your Westphalia Waltz, especially the augmented chord part, and the part where you play two different parts on the D and A strings simultaneously.

I’ll check out the Scottish Air section.

thanks again
-Celeste

Hi, Carol – those Hanneke tunes are great…can’t wait to get them released!

Cool to hear you were able to connect with Kevin…he is truly a treasure…and thanks for the positive vibes about the site!

C

Awesome, Sabrina…stay tuned!!

Hi Casey,

Really excited for Jean’s Reel and The Road to Errogie!

Thanks for all your hard work. I met Kevin Burke at Goderich, Ontario last week. He was one of my teachers for the week, such a great teacher and he shared many wonderful stories and great analogies for learning to play fiddle. We both shared all the positive features of your w…[Read more]

Yes and to piggy back off of that the Irish Celi is like the Scots ceidlih for musicians and dancers. RW

Hi, Joey.

That’s totally normal to experience…have you taken a look at the basic and advanced bow hold videos on this site?? I lay out my approach in those, and they may be helpful in you finding the right balance between flexibility and stability:

Basic Bow Hold Tutorial

Advanced Bow Hold Tutorial

Hope those help!!!

C

Hi, Celeste.

I’d take a look at the Scottish Air and Waltz sections…

C

Bunch of Green Rushes (Kevin)

Reel Belzebuth (Andre)

Hi Casey,

I’ve been thinking a lot but i can’t choose between the 3 i’d like to see published first so i put them and no matter the one, i’ll be very pleased ! :

– Jig Ati-toine

– Cypress Jig

– Passing Place

Thank you ! 🙂

S.

Good question PC and good info, Roland.

The only tidbit of info I might add is that I’ve heard Hanneke refer to a Ceilidh as a term used to describe a dance or musical party.

So I guess the distinction I took away was that a session is mainly musicians…a Ceilidh is musicians and dancers/partying. But I could be totally off on that…

C

Duly noted, sir!!