June’s Tunes

Gordon Peerie suggested this lovely melody by Peter Ostroushko.

A long-time regular on Garrison Keiller’s Prairie Home Companion, Peter was a multi-instrumentalist who wrote this waltz for Minnesota: A History of the Land (2005).  Ken Burns later featured it in his documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009).  

You can hear the Celtic Mandolins and John Kelly performing this tune here on YouTune Music.

Drunk at Night and Dry in the Morning  (G & D)

Dave Wasilew presented this melody in 2013 (SRS 25.15), as a three part march in A major. The 4 part setting here, from the Niel Gow - 3rd Repository (1806),  has been transposed to G and D for the coming season’s concerts, as an air.

Hear cellist Abbey Newton and fiddler Alasdair Fraser playing the tune here on Newton’s 1997 CD, Crossing to Scotland.

You can find the dots for both tunes here.