Welcome to the Gumboot Bloggeroo! You won't get many hits from the Top 40 here - more like misses from the Back 40. Proudly behind the times, I perform traditional and not-so-traditional music from the East Coast of Canada - songs and tunes, with harmonica, fiddle, guitar, piano, and whatever else is on hand. Check out the samples, the pictures, the information, the misinformation, the free advice, the second-hand opinions, and whatever else I end up dumping here ....

Listen to the Music: Fiddle



1) These are with Cecelia (MacKinnon) Bell on piano; recorded at the MacKinnon Homestead, Richmond, Prince Edward Island, August, 2016.  There is no video with them.

Trip to Mabou Ridge Trip (D.H. MacEachern) (march) / Alex MacEachern (D.H. MacEachern) (strathspey) / Mr John Stewart of Grantully / Sandy MacIntyre's Trip to Boston (J. Campbell) (reels)



Chorus/Smash the Window/Frost is all Over (jigs)



Lochaber Gathering (march) / Captain Campbell (strathspey) / Loch Leven Castle / Miss MacLeod's (reels)


Come Under My Plaidie / Black-Handled Hoe / Tea Gardens (A. Chisholm) / Dan the Cobbler (jigs)


The 99th's Farewell to Gibraltar (march)


Lord MacDonald's / Flowers of Edinburgh (reels)


 Irishman's Heart to the Ladies / The Blackthorn Stick / The Atholl Highlanders (jigs)


James Moray of Abercairney (slow air) / Space Available (M. Doucet) (march) / Duke of Gordon's Birthday (strathspey) / Heather Hill (D.R. MacDonald) (reel)


Big John MacNeil / Dusty Miller


Haste to the Wedding / Smash the Window


Brenda Stubbert's / Mutt's (reels by J. Holland)


Marie-Claire (J. Holland) (hornpipe) / Loggerman's Breakdown


 1) Mason's Apron/De'il Among the Tailors / Speed the Plough / Monymusk; 2) High Road to Linton / Put Me in the Big Chest (reels)


Paddy on the Turnpike (reel)


2) With Alanna Thurgood on pump organ; Inman's Shore, PEI, 2015.


A Hundred Pipers, as a slow air


Mary Anne MacDougall (M. MacDougall) (march) / Hoch, Hey! Johnny Lad / Put Me in the Big Chest / High Road to Linton / Mr John Stewart of Grantully

3) Calgary Maple Festival des Sucres, 2017.

Smash the Window / Frost is All Over / Dan the Cobbler


Soldier's Joy / Ste. Anne's Reel

4) With Ken Persson on piano/keyboard; Calgary, 2015-16.


Rakes of Kildare (jig)


Hundred Pipers / Cock o' the North (jigs)


Chinese Breakdown


Country Waltz


Red Wing / 'Way Down Yonder


Westphalia Waltz

5) Solo.


Sheehan's / Salley Gardens / Teetotaller's (Temperance) (reels)


Whiskey Before Breakfast



Irish Washerwoman


Mussels in the Corner

6) Others - various, with no video.




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