Greenshoots Recordings
Wind and rhythm section at the 2012 Collaboration Concert - sorry to miss out the fiddles!!
Below are MP3 audio recordings of Greenshoots over the years. See also our page of video recordings>.
January 2023 - Greenshoots session at Lord Byron Inn
A music recording from the first Greenshoots session held at the Lord Byron Inn in Trumpington, recorded by Mike Rawlings.
April 2022 - Greenshoots session
The session held on Monday 25th April 2022 at Melbourn Community Hall, that was also streamed by Zoom, should have been video recorded,
but I messed up and forgot to resume after pausing! However, Mike had made audio recordings from a corner of the room, so we have:
August 2021 - Greenshoots session
A music recording from a Greenshoots session held at Comberton Village hall recorded by Mike Rawlings.
October 2019 - Greenshoots session
A music recording from a regular Greenshoots session at the Black Horse at Melbourn, recorded by Mike Rawlings.
August 2014 - Greenshoots session
These are music recordings from a regular Greenshoots session at the Black Horse at Melbourn.
They were recorded by Mike Rawlings. There is some background noise from the bar at the pub.
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Curly Headed set - Three tunes - Curly Headed Ploughboy, Harper's Frolic, and Bonnie Kate.
We were practicing transitions between tunes, and this second week recording shows some success!
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Three Sea Captains - showing that we keep playing a tune several times to try and improve!
May 2014 - Greenshoots session
These are music recordings from a regular Greenshoots session at the Black Horse at Melbourn.
They were recorded by Mike Rawlings - without telling anyone, so we are in normal playing mode rather than performing!
Collaboration Concert Autumn 2012 - Greenshoots Set
Music recordings from Greenshoots performance at a local 'collaboration concert',
held in Whittlesford, near Cambridge, in October 2012.
They were recorded on a Zoom H2 digital recorder and processed using Audacity, both by Paul Hardy.
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Complete set - minimally edited complete set. Tunes are Ballydesmond polkas 1 and 2,
Gentle Maiden (in 2 parts), Sececa Square Dance/Waiting for the Federals, Lios na Banriona (in 2 parts), Mrs Saggs,
and Shove the Pigs Foot a Little Closer to the Fire.
Collaboration Concert Autumn 2011 - Greenshoots Set
Music recordings from Greenshoots performance at a local 'collaboration concert', held in Whittlesford, near Cambridge, in October 2011.
They were recorded on a Zoom H2 digital recorder and processed using Audacity, both by Paul Hardy.
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Fakenham Fair - a traditional English tune from East Anglia.
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Bonny Kate - a traditional tune that has travelled around the British Isles, probably starting in Scotland, and then becoming common in Ireland before returning to England. Probably played a lot in 2011 because of a royal wedding!
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Harper's Frolic - a traditional Irish tune.
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Archibald McDonald of Keppoch - a Scottish lament for the chief of the McDonald clan who died in 1682.
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Rights of man - a traditional Irish tune.
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Bluebell Polka - a traditional Scottish dance tune.
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Complete set - minimally edited complete set (for us players to critique!).
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