John Kirkpatrick's English Choice : John Kirkpatrick

Accompanying CDs:

CD1 Orlando's Return £13.00

CD2 Garrick's Delight £13.00

In this lively romp through seven centuries of English dance music, John Kirkpatrick shares the passion that has led him to become one of the foremost champions and interpreters of our native traditions. Driven always by his love of dancing, John has constantly been striving to inject the maximum amount of energy and life into these lovely simple old tunes. In fact, as any dance musician will tell you, the simpler the tune is, the more opportunity you are allowed to add your own kind of zest into its performance.

Here John presents 101 examples that are tailor-made for the strong rhythmic approach inspired by English dance steps and rhythms. With melody, chords and variations, the book is ideally suited for any instrument, but one of the prime factors in the selection of the tunes has been the fact that they sit so happily on the push-pull squeeze-box scale. Although the melodeon came along long after the style and substance of this music was well established, it's breathtaking how perfectly the one can match the other.

On the two accompanying C.D.s - Orlando's Return and Garrick's Delight - you can hear John playing every one of these tunes on his various squeeze-boxes, joined on many of them by his son Benji on guitar or bouzouki. You can follow the dots and play along at your leisure. With over forty years' playing experience behind him, you couldn't be in safer hands. This collection is an absolute must not only for melodeon players, but for anybody who likes their music with an uncompromising English accent.

Alexandra Alf Gray's Jig Battle of Prague, The Big Ship, The Black Joak, The Bobby Shafto Bonnets So Blue Brickmakers, The Brunswick Captain Macintosh Charming Maid, The Colosseum, The Contented Farmer, The Croaking Cardinal, The Dam It Dandy Dancer, The Dannish Waltz, The Dennis Crowther's No. 3 Derby Hunt, The Double Change Sides Down the Sides and Up the Middle Dr. Fausters’ Tumblers Dutch Pins Evesham Stick Dance, The Fairy Prince, The First of September, The Flaxley Green Dance, The Garrick's Delight General Hill's Favourite Goathland Square Eight, The Good Old Way, The Gypsies' Round, The Haphazard Hasty Money

Hexham Races Holborn March Hunt the Hare Hunt the Squirrel (Polka) Hunt the Squirrel (Hornpipe) Hunting the Squirrel (Jig) Hyde Park Irish Washerwoman, The Jack's Alive Jingling Geordie, The John of Paris John of the Greeny Cheshire Way John Peel King Edward The Second's Jig Kirkgate Hornpipe, The Lass of Dallogill, The Leap Over The Garter Lilliburlero Long Odds Merry Wakefield Milesian, The Militia, The Miss Gayton's Hornpipe Mr. Cosgill's Delight New White Hart Hornpipe, The Nymph, The Orlando's Return Oscar Woods’ Jig Penny on the Water Philibelula All The Way Physical Snob, The Polly Put The Kettle On Prince of Wales’ Jig, The Prince Regent, The

Prince William Princess Caroline's Waltz Radstock Jig, The Red Joak, The Red Lion Hornpipe, The Regent's Hornpipe, The Rufty Tufty Runaway, The Russian Cavalry Sailor's Delight, The Shepton Hornpipe, The Sheringham Breakdown, The Shrewsbury Waltz, The Sick And Very Bad Soldier's Wedding, The Squirrel, The Sussex Bonny Breast Knot, The Tank, The Tempest, The Thorpe Malsor Trumpet Tune Tink A Tink Touch the Thing Touchstone, The Trip to the Cottage True Joak, The Washington Hornpipe, The We Will Down with the French Welch Hornpipe, The White Joak, The Whitehaven Volunteers, The Wilson's Favourite Wiltshire Six-Hand Reel, The Yellow Joak, The

60 pages  ISBN:1-899512-62-4