Annotation:Leaving Lerwick Harbour

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LEAVING LERWICK HARBOUR. Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A modern air in the Scottish style composed in 1970 by Lerwick, Shetland, fiddler William "Willie" Hunter [1] (1933-1994), on the occasion of his sister Lorna's emigrating from Shetland to New Zealand. It is considered to be the finest composition of a fiddler who was considered to be the best of his generation, of whom it was said he could move an audience to tears through his sensitive rendering of slow airs.

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Recorded sources: Green Linnet GLCD 1151, Seamus McGuire - "The Wishing Tree" (1995). Greentrax, Willie Hunter - "Leaving Lerwick Harbour" (1995). Fiddler's Bid - "Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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