Year 34 No 11 – July 2010
There was an excellent turnout for the first meeting of the Lauder and District A&F Club held in The Black Bull Hotel, Market Place, Lauder on Sunday, May 23rd The afternoon started off with our MC Ronnie Patterson welcoming everyone to this inaugural meeting before our guest artistes Paul Capaldi (accordion), Keith Dickson (keyboard) and Hector Mackenzie (drums) got the music going with a couple of 6/8 marches. We then had a chorus of Happy Birthday for our MC as he is now eligible for a bus pass!
The guests’ programme featured Charles Magnante’s Accordiana and his arrangement of Billy Hill’s The Glory of Love, Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel and Le Retour Des Hirondelles by Pagano and Trognee. They also played some of Paul’s own compositions including the two-steps The Uphall Station Budgie and The Matching 3 Piece Suite and the swing waltz Retour Des Amis Accordionists. The ‘Farewell’ set of 2/4 pipe marches were George Ross’s and William Gray’s.
The Shetland Reels were all ones given to Paul by Keith over a 25 year period and included Da Tushkar and Peter Davidson’s by Ronnie Cooper, Jenna Reid of Quarff by Chris Stout and John Pottinger’s Compliments to Ronnie Cooper.
The supporting players were accordionists – Euan Macfarlane, Rachel Oliver (who received the loudest cheer of the afternoon for her lovely playing of Peter Wood’s Sandy’s Shetland Stag Week), Connie Meikle, Gary Forrest, Ian Heard (Gary’s first accordion teacher, who was heard to say “I never taught him to play like that” to which Gary replied that Ian was the best teacher he ever had!), Graeme Munro, father and sons Jock, Bryan and Ian Thomson, Alison Bell, Michael Paton, Ian Macdonald, Liz Elliot mother of Zara Elliot (our youngest box player aged 7), Barry Whitely, Gordon Clark and the evergreen Jimmy Gold.
On fiddle were June Meikle, Andrew Knight, Euan Macfarlane, Carrie Owen (who deserves a special mention for the fantastic improvement in her playing over the last year and for all the photos she took) and Zara’s older sister Robyn Elliot.
On keyboard we had Caleb, Charlie and (youngest of the day aged 6) Sam Derrick, Anne Roberts, Chris Upton, Shauna Flockhart, Russell Hunter and Gary Forrest.
Finally, and not forgetting, because they are )according to themselves) the most important of all, the percussionists were Jimmy Caswell, Tam Rankin, Jock Thomson, Ian Thomson and still going strong in his eighties Tommy Heard.
A tremendous feast of entertainment was served up by all the supporting players with dance instructors Jock Thomson and Gillian McHugh regularly taking to the floor. The afternoon finished later than scheduled at about quarter to six with our busy MC thanking everyone for their efforts and inviting them to return on Sunday 27th June when the guest artistes will be Gary Forrest and Roddy Matthews, excellent Northumbrian fiddler.
E.R. Capaldi
There was an excellent turnout for the first meeting of the Lauder and District A&F Club held in The Black Bull Hotel, Market Place, Lauder on Sunday, May 23rd The afternoon started off with our MC Ronnie Patterson welcoming everyone to this inaugural meeting before our guest artistes Paul Capaldi (accordion), Keith Dickson (keyboard) and Hector Mackenzie (drums) got the music going with a couple of 6/8 marches. We then had a chorus of Happy Birthday for our MC as he is now eligible for a bus pass!
The guests’ programme featured Charles Magnante’s Accordiana and his arrangement of Billy Hill’s The Glory of Love, Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel and Le Retour Des Hirondelles by Pagano and Trognee. They also played some of Paul’s own compositions including the two-steps The Uphall Station Budgie and The Matching 3 Piece Suite and the swing waltz Retour Des Amis Accordionists. The ‘Farewell’ set of 2/4 pipe marches were George Ross’s and William Gray’s.
The Shetland Reels were all ones given to Paul by Keith over a 25 year period and included Da Tushkar and Peter Davidson’s by Ronnie Cooper, Jenna Reid of Quarff by Chris Stout and John Pottinger’s Compliments to Ronnie Cooper.
The supporting players were accordionists – Euan Macfarlane, Rachel Oliver (who received the loudest cheer of the afternoon for her lovely playing of Peter Wood’s Sandy’s Shetland Stag Week), Connie Meikle, Gary Forrest, Ian Heard (Gary’s first accordion teacher, who was heard to say “I never taught him to play like that” to which Gary replied that Ian was the best teacher he ever had!), Graeme Munro, father and sons Jock, Bryan and Ian Thomson, Alison Bell, Michael Paton, Ian Macdonald, Liz Elliot mother of Zara Elliot (our youngest box player aged 7), Barry Whitely, Gordon Clark and the evergreen Jimmy Gold.
On fiddle were June Meikle, Andrew Knight, Euan Macfarlane, Carrie Owen (who deserves a special mention for the fantastic improvement in her playing over the last year and for all the photos she took) and Zara’s older sister Robyn Elliot.
On keyboard we had Caleb, Charlie and (youngest of the day aged 6) Sam Derrick, Anne Roberts, Chris Upton, Shauna Flockhart, Russell Hunter and Gary Forrest.
Finally, and not forgetting, because they are )according to themselves) the most important of all, the percussionists were Jimmy Caswell, Tam Rankin, Jock Thomson, Ian Thomson and still going strong in his eighties Tommy Heard.
A tremendous feast of entertainment was served up by all the supporting players with dance instructors Jock Thomson and Gillian McHugh regularly taking to the floor. The afternoon finished later than scheduled at about quarter to six with our busy MC thanking everyone for their efforts and inviting them to return on Sunday 27th June when the guest artistes will be Gary Forrest and Roddy Matthews, excellent Northumbrian fiddler.
E.R. Capaldi