There are 5 recordings of a tune by this name.
Da Fields O’ Foula has been added to 2 tune sets.
Da Fields O' Foula has been added to 23 tunebooks.
# Added by fifer 15 years ago .
Traditional 6/8 tune from Foula, Shetland perversely used (with other 6/8 tunes) for dancing "The Foula Reel".
# Posted by fifer 15 years ago .
It’s on disc 2, track 7. Check it out.
It’s a great tune and I’d rather not have to transcribe it note for note!
Thanks for your help!
# Posted by grymater 15 years ago .
My pleasure grymater, but you returned the favour with the reel on the Tarras track. Hadn’t heard that before - great tune. Think I’ll try to learn it and then figure out what’s going on. A lot of the old Shetland tunes have been lost, together with the variations played between the islands. Only other tune I knew associated with ‘The Foula Reel’ was another 6/8 called ‘Da Shaalds (ie reefs) O’ Foula’. That one best played with AEAE fiddle string tuning.
Other tracks on CD took me back to many student nights in Edinburgh pubs - but that’s another story.
# Posted by fifer 15 years ago .
Have we got any genuine Shetlanders on the list who can confirm when each of these two great tunes are used?
# Posted by Noel Jackson 15 years ago .
Submitted on June 17th 2005 by domnull.
# Posted by ceolachan 13 years ago .
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
# Posted by ceolachan 13 years ago .
Submitted on November 14th 2007 by ceolachan.
# Posted by ceolachan 11 years ago .
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