Slip Jig

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- October 4, 2016 at 4:19 PM #9854
  
  shannonstuart
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  Hi!
  
  I recently watched a YouTube video featuring Hanneke Cassel playing a slip jig. I am wondering if this particular tune has a name (the title of the video just refers to it as “Slip Jig.” Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWpQvDy3YFc. The title of the video is “Slip Jig” with Hanneke Cassel @ GMW 2015.
  
  Thank you!
- October 4, 2016 at 10:20 PM #9855
  
  Casey Willis
  Keymaster
  
  I’ll ask Hanneke to take a look. Stay tuned…
  
  P.S., John Oliver is KILLING IT on that gourd fiddle thingy!!!
  
  C
- October 8, 2016 at 5:07 AM #9878
  
  Roland White
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  HI Shannon, I love Celtic music and Slip Jigs in 9/8 time always seem to have a unique and distinctive sound. This is wonderful clip of musical synergy and I agree with Casey the Gourd Fiddle player is amazing, as well as the entire group. BTW, I cannot identify the tune either. Thanks so much for sharing. Roland
- October 8, 2016 at 4:00 PM #9882
  
  shannonstuart
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  Thank you both for taking a look at the video. I agree, the gourd fiddle is very unique and beautiful when played. I think that slip jig is so pretty!
- October 10, 2016 at 2:57 AM #9886
  
  micheleroy
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  I believe that may be Fig for a Kiss. Lovely.
- October 14, 2016 at 12:42 PM #9915
  
  Hanneke Cassel
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  Hi Shannon! I learned that slip jig from an album by Alasdair Fraser and Paul Machlis called “Skyedance”. On the liner notes, it is simply listed as “Slip Jig” and that’s all I know! And Fig for a Kiss is a different (and yes… very lovely 🙂 ) tune.
  
  Thanks – Hanneke
- October 14, 2016 at 1:46 PM #9916
  
  Roland White
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  Hi Hanneke, Thanks for letting us all know what is behind that lovely tune. BTW awesome performance of the tune with your fellow players. Best, Roland
- October 16, 2016 at 9:46 PM #9929
  
  shannonstuart
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  Thank you, Hanneke, for the information about the slip jig. I loved hearing you play it with the other musicians!
  
  Shannon
- October 22, 2016 at 1:52 AM #10025
  
  ulla_petersen
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  It sounds very much like “The Low Country Dance”, aka “Country Dance”, or “Lochaber Dance”.
  
  There is sheet music and abc notation for it on thesession.org (a great place to look for sheet music!):
  
  https://thesession.org/tunes/6222
- October 22, 2016 at 6:11 AM #10026
  
  Roland White
  Moderator
  
  Hi Ulla,
  
  Thank you for the post. This is good information for FV members who are looking for sheet music notation on 1000’s of tunes. You can also get midi files of the tunes if you learn by ear. The Session also sends out a weekly update of new tunes to the data base and interesting forum topics. A lot of tunes have more than one name attributed to them and its a good resource if you have heard the same tune with different titles, especially when you play with folks from different areas. kind regards, R
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