Category Archives: Music For Friends

I arrived early for the October ’24 Plum Pudding session and came up with this while waiting for more musicians to arrive.

I lost my bank card one day last May. I either left it in a shop or dropped it in the car park. By the time I realised, I was 100 miles away and the shop had shut, so I … Continue reading →

A few years ago, a mole burrowed under my back lawn, throwing up a couple of dirt mounds. I stamped them down and waited to see whether they’d be rebuilt, but they never were. I suppose the soil was too … Continue reading →

A tune to honour the wonderful Dipper family of Heytesbury, Wilts; musicians, instrument makers and all-round good eggs. (Sept ’25) Turns out that this is not an original tune. It has a very close resemblance to Da Slockit Light by … Continue reading →

Another tune named after a pub. In this case it’s a rather nice little place in Milton village, between Abingdon and Didcot. It happens to be the current venue for the 3rd Sunday “Mostly English” music session (which used to … Continue reading →

Another schottisch, another tune from a signalbox…

Here are two slower tunes, of a slightly lugubrious nature, that might do well for step-hop dances.

Here are a couple of jigs that I came up with at the start of May 2021. They were prompted by playing Philippe Plard’s wonderful jig, Zelda, which was tune of the week for the Tunesday Tuesdays group on Facebook.

My first schottiche, my first tune named after a pub and (therefore?) my first real success. It was also one of the first tunes I invented on my Wheatstone Aeola concertina. This tune was named after the place where I … Continue reading →

Here’s another schottische named after a pub. In this case it’s The Cherry Tree in Steventon, Oxon. This was the home of the “mostly English” session, held on the 3rd Sunday of each month, from 2000 until 2017.