Dorset barndance - Red Dog Green Dog and Primaeval

Same kind of thing as last year, except Joel was able to make it and play hurdy-gurdy with Red Dog Green Dog. I recorded almost all of their (3+ hour) set on MiniDisc from a less-than-optimally positioned microphone (directly behind them), but it sounds alright to me:

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The set from Primaeval (currently Cliff Stapleton - gurdy, Jonathan Shoreland - pipes, Sunny Davidson - guitar) was also excellent. As usual, I lurked in a corner rather than getting into the (traditional) dancing. Nice to see so many people enjoying themselves, though.


RDGD, splattered and weirdly colourised
And the incomparable Jon E. Aris gave me a copy of a CD Stevie P has compiled of all Jon's recordings from over the years...varying styles, line-ups, sound qualities, degrees of ridiculousness, but great to hear. It's called Moor. He gave me his blessing to put it in the public domain, so I have:

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The morning after the dance, I got a chance to try out Joel's Trace Elliot acoustic amp connected to a car battery in the camping field - a joy to hear my saz amplified so nicely. Sam, sitting nearby, made some vague allusion to Ross Daly, which was incredibly flattering. Now I can't decide if I want to get one of those or a Marshall AS50R. Andy Bard stopped by with his mandolin for a lovely little jam (unrecorded) before I headed off on my bike.