Thank you Peak !!! One more tune to add to my already long list of Peakfiddler's music. I'm directly going, right this minute, to your Patreon Page !!!
"Willafjord The great Shetland collector Tom Anderson said that Willafjord was brought back from the Greenland whaling expeditions by Shetland fiddlers and as long since become a standard of the genre. In his book Hand Me Doon da Fiddle (1979), Anderson said that there were a lot of fiddlers from many countries that were employed in the whaling industries. Shetland was an important part of the whaling industry in the nineteenth century, so the dual actions of the Shetlanders sailing abroad, and whalers from overseas visiting the island has partly resulted in Shetland's unique music. He also said that Willafjord is played in Newfoundland and Cape Breton using the same bowing strokes as in Shetland. This tune uses a syncopated rhythm Anderson described it: If du imagines some een gaen wi wan fit ida stank an de idder een on a broo an gaein a lunk as dey go alang, dat's da kind o' syncopated rhythm du haes to get whin du plays dis een. In other words, think of walking along with one foot in the ditch, bopping along, and you'll get the rhythm! In Scottish sessions Willafjord is mostly coupled with another Shetland reel, Spootiskerry. "
Thanks for contributing so much useful information. My pal is from the Shetlands and I like to play this with him and yes spootiskerry works really well after it. Also Staten Island is another tune that works well in a set with Willafjord.
Great rendition! Our music group has joyfully played this tune for many years with what we describe as a Calypso beat, which turns out to be very close to what you're doing here. Bravo! PS. Do you know if there's an actual place named Willafjord?
Beautiful tune , thanks Chris
Fantastic lesson really; you were always a good teacher, I said many times, I'm surprised you don't teacher at a small college part time . Thanks moe
Thank you Peak !!! One more tune to add to my already long list of Peakfiddler's music. I'm directly going, right this minute, to your Patreon Page !!!
Thanks Jo, it's one of the many lessons
Nice rhythm. Dave Swarbrick (RIP) did a fabulous version of the tune back in the 1970's.
"Willafjord
The great Shetland collector Tom Anderson said that Willafjord was brought back from the Greenland whaling expeditions by Shetland fiddlers and as long since become a standard of the genre. In his book Hand Me Doon da Fiddle (1979), Anderson said that there were a lot of fiddlers from many countries that were employed in the whaling industries. Shetland was an important part of the whaling industry in the nineteenth century, so the dual actions of the Shetlanders sailing abroad, and whalers from overseas visiting the island has partly resulted in Shetland's unique music.
He also said that Willafjord is played in Newfoundland and Cape Breton using the same bowing strokes as in Shetland. This tune uses a syncopated rhythm Anderson described it:
If du imagines some een gaen wi wan fit ida stank an de idder een on a broo an gaein a lunk as dey go alang, dat's da kind o' syncopated rhythm du haes to get whin du plays dis een.
In other words, think of walking along with one foot in the ditch, bopping along, and you'll get the rhythm!
In Scottish sessions Willafjord is mostly coupled with another Shetland reel, Spootiskerry.
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Or Oliver Jack,then Willafjord
Thanks for contributing so much useful information. My pal is from the Shetlands and I like to play this with him and yes spootiskerry works really well after it. Also Staten Island is another tune that works well in a set with Willafjord.
Great rendition! Our music group has joyfully played this tune for many years with what we describe as a Calypso beat, which turns out to be very close to what you're doing here. Bravo! PS. Do you know if there's an actual place named Willafjord?
Might be a good holiday destination perhaps, 😊
apologies, I'm not sure as geography was never my strong point.