A beautiful tune, beautifully played, honouring a bridge in my favourite city in the whole world. Written by Tyneside fiddle player James Hill about the High Level Bridge in Newcastle on Tyne. I lived there for six years. It's a city that has a strong respect for it's Irish immigrants as does its surrounding areas like Gateshead, Hebburn and Jarrow. Thank you for posting this.
hi vanessa.. my name is Glen Bellows from corner brook nfld.. i would like to say to you that your style is beuitful..i would like for you to watch my son Mark Bellows on you tube with is style. Mark was my son ..he had passed away at the ripe age of 12 in 2006. he was a great accordian player. my brother Ben Bellows was Marks idle. Mark had passed away from a brain tumor. and iam sure he is playing for the angels. i would also love to hear more of your music .such a great job.
this has to be one of the nicest irish trad tunes and another one i love is the plains of boyle as well is a fine tune and this girl is a beautifull player and she has a lovely lite fingered style so smooth and clean and styleish no wonder shes a winner
whilst the origin of this hornpipe is not exactly defined - it is defiantly not Irish, being attributed to both James Hill (Dundee) and later to Scotts Skinner.
Not an Irish tune. From the Newcastle area of England, like many great hornpipes such as "Harvest Home" et al. All very popular here in Ireland. A brilliant player.
@@dukadarodear2176its not an english tune dumdum. Howdy Forrester an American fiddle player wrote this tune. Where did u get the notion that it was english
i tell you vanessa can serenade me any time with that music she is something else not to mention her good looks ,great looks beauty but i bet shes married damm anyway go vanessa
@@KeyManiacLad James Hill spent nearly all his life in Newcastle (indications are that he moved there as a young child) and certainly spent his musical life there, and composed tunes (hornpipes) in the "Newcastle way". Folk music is about communities and James Hill evidently learned his folk music in Newcastle. Of course, there is a relationship between Scottish traditional music and Northumbrian (and English/Scottish folk music generally), which goes both ways.
I have listened to this clip over and over. Getting to the level of playing the High Level on its own is a task enough. But what she does with it, by "making it her own" tune, is a labour of true love, so well expressed. And what a clever choice of tune to make your own.
fantastic! the maid is in her bubble. nothing wrong with that. to sound that good without appearing to be putting in much effort is pretty damn good by reckoning.
Almost entirely correct (yes, it's James Hill etc.). However, it's not late 19th Century, but just about bang in the middle. Robert Stevenson designed the High Level bridge and it was built between 1847 and 1849. James Hill died in the 1850's.
In Irish Traditional Music they always play 4/4 hornpipes like this one. There is no other type of hornpipes. Although there are set dances played in 4/4 hornpipe rhythm, but they are considered as a set dances.
