{"id":3674,"date":"2017-06-30T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2017-06-30T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:16:20","slug":"tune-of-the-month-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the Month &#8211; July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pipingpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Piping Press<\/a> (Robert Wallace&#8217;s web presence since he left the College of Piping) posted the audio of an <a href=\"https:\/\/pipingpress.com\/2017\/06\/07\/outstanding-recital-by-donald-mcbride-posted-on-pp-audio-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">informal recital by Donald McBride<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cademyipingessons\/sets\/donald-mcbride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a> last month. I first met Donald a few years ago when he came down with a couple of his students to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saladoscottishfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salado Scottish Games<\/a>. I don&#8217;t remember if his student Griffin Hall was beating me in competition at the time (probably, just to be safe) but I&#8217;m sure he could now! We were treated to Donald&#8217;s playing in the open competition that year and he sat down down with us Lubbockites for a wee chat later that morning. Back to the recital recordings, Donald reveals a repertoire true to the many places he&#8217;s lived with both Scottish and Irish tunes, traditional and modern. I enjoyed his unique arrangements of The Jig of Slurs and The Gravel Walk(s). Another tune that stood out to me was Paddy Clancy&#8217;s, July&#8217;s tune of the month. It is a happy 2 part jig that I&#8217;ve arranged myself based on Donald&#8217;s playing mixed with settings found on the popular Irish music website, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thesession.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/paddy_clancys.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paddy Clancy&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Piping Press (Robert Wallace&#8217;s web presence since he left the College of Piping) posted the audio of an informal recital by Donald McBride on SoundCloud last month. I first met Donald a few years ago when he came down with a couple of his students to the Salado Scottish Games. I don&#8217;t remember if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tune of the Month &#8211; July 2017<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tune-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}