Happy Happy Happy Merry New Year

​​HI Folksies!
 
Thank you for such a lovely start to the New Year. It’s really inspiring to have such a great group of musicians to work with.
 
I had hoped to do a more in depth/higher quality recording of the new tune today, (my working title seems to be “As the World Turns”) but I’m headed to Fort Simpson this weekend to teach at a fiddle camp, so for now there are 3 tracks, with melody & harmonys split and full 3 part. I’ll be adding more instrumental parts, verses etc as we go.
 
 
The lyrics are:
 
Every day sun comes up
Every day sun goes down
As the world turns around
Hold on to my voice we’ll sing through together
 
Cause music makes the world turn
Takes the burn in our hearts and lights a fire
Music makes the world turn, lonely as it seems
Hold on to my voice we’ll sing through together
 

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The tentative set list for the North Island Festival of Performing Arts (NIFPA) is as follows:
 
A Love Like Yours
Brother Drop Dead
Gaucho
As the World Turns

the actual performance is on February 4, 6:30 pm... location TBA

Brother Drop Dead

We did some work on arranging Brother Drop Dead last night, changes will be made to this road map, but this will get you started. There are charts and Mp3s posted from september if you scroll down a bit on this page.
 
The road map so far is:
 
Intro: (Chromatic Descending)
 
Lines 1 & 2 - Solo
Lines 3 & 4 – Solo
Line 5 – Gents
Line 6 – Ladies   (rhythm: single shot on Brother)
 
Intro
Lines 1 & 2 - Solo
Lines 3 & 4 – Solo
Line 5 – Ladies  (when HE popped the question)
Line 6 – Gents  (Rhythm: single shots – only, brother)
 
Group solo/transcribed instrumental
 
Lines 1 & 2 - Solo
Lines 3 & 4 – Solo
Line 5 – Every one
Line 6 – Every one (Rhythm: Double shots)
 
Improvised solos/Riff solos
 
Verse 3 – Small groups sing each line, everyone sings last line plus tag
 
Intro 

A Love Like Yours

We'll be doing a new arrangement of this one for the festival, but if people want to brush up on it and download the Mp3s/lyrics check out the archives from February 2015, (Located on the right hand of this page just under my bio at the top of the page)

Gaucho

Here's where my disappearing to Fort Simpson at the last minute makes things a bit difficult... I don't have the music for Gaucho, but if you don't have it and you realllllly want to get started on it this week, you can send me an email at [email protected] and I'll forward your request onto Wendy or Bob and get it to you, If you have their email already then just ask them directly.

hope to see you all again next week as well as new folks too! 

all the best,
​Ali