Kitty Bridges' Pocket Book

Tunes and Dances from 1745

Kitty Bridges' Pocket book is a booklet of tunes and dances with an accompanying CD, arranged for your delight and felicitation by the Kitty Bridges' Band.

Bob Shatwell discovered this pocket book whilst researching "Hampshire Dance Tunes"  in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House. The photographs of each page are reproduced in this booklet.

CD Tracks:

1. Pau Paw
2. We are all coming
3. Bread and Cheese, The Kentish Cricketters
4. Four Drunken Maids, Topsy Turvy
5. The Merry Councellor
6. Drops of Brandy, Tague's ramble
7. Quite Prodigious, Mosee
8. The Cooler
9. Prince George, Ne'er a bottom
10. The Bedchamber
11. Just-a-going, Trip to Farley
12. Auretti's Dutch Skipper
13. Alister

The Kitty Bridge's Band:

Ali Willis: Fiddle,Viola, tin whistle

Graeme Willis: Guitar, Bouzouki, percussion

Paul Tabbush: Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, melodeon, mandolin, octave mandolin

Lesley Shatwell: Double Bass

Bob Shatwell: Fiddle, Tin Whistle

First Published in 2009 by Reiver Music