Help needed

[Colin]

Ok, so a few months ago I decided I wanted to learn an instrument and at least one song before my 30th birthday. I originally looked into the pipes or even the bodhran, but settled on the fiddle. I have only had 4-30 minute classes, and I know I have a long road ahead of me, but the main reason I decided on the fiddle was for a song that my 3 year old daughter just loves. Of course daddy needs to play it for his princess

Now I got the song through a pirate friend of mine (wink, wink) by searching the word fiddle. Unfortunately I don't know the real name of the tune, so I can't get sheet music. I have the song and would be happy to anyone that may be able to help identify it for me.

Thanks guys.

[setboy]

I'll give it a listen if you like

[Macman]

I'll give it a listen if you like

Me too.

[Caradoc]

Me too.

Thirded.

[Colin]

Thanks guys, I just need an email address, as I have no way of posting it online (that I know of). PM them to me if you like.

Thanks again

[Caradoc]

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Mon, 21 Mar 2005
The Celtic Fiddle Festival

A new discovery. They are Kevin Burke (Irish), Johnny Cunningham (Scottish) and Christian Lemaître (Breton), three awe-inspiring fiddlers who play separately and together on their four albums, the first two and fourth of which are live. Traditional and original tunes by all three. I'd love to see them play live and up close - for example, about six minutes into the first track on their first album are some literally light-speed runs! I discovered them in a roundabout way: I was listening to a batch of Enya today while home sick, and included in the playlist was something I has downloaded a while ago called "Enya - Celtic fiddle". Now, I know Enya doesn't play fiddle, but I listened to it anyway, and it was lovely, so I wanted to know what it was.

I went to Musicbrainz to see if they had heard of it. (MusicBrainz is fantastic: you use a little helper app to somehow analyse the sound patterns in an MP3 file; that analysis gets looked up to see what the song actually is, regardless of tagging. It works amazingly well a lot of the time.) It did see it as "Enya - Celtic fiddle" from a mostly-Enya mix CD someone had put together (and stupidly uploaded the analysis), but it also saw it as "Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham & Christian Lemaître - The Celtic Fiddle Festival - 02 - Melodie Rondes de Loudeac". I looked up the The Celtic Fiddle Festival and found them at Green Linnet, their label, and had a listen to the streaming RealAudio they have of all their music. Sure enough, MusicBrainz was right, so I now have the file tagged properly. Green Linnet has MP3's of samples and RealAudio of full albums, so thanks to Net Transport I now have a bunch of Celtic Fiddle Festival albums on RealAudio. Link on the button below, since they use one of those awful seach engines that you can't bookmark.

So, all you should need is sheet music for "Melodie Rondes de Loudeac."

Hope this helps.