Seventeen SRSNH members took part in Concord Community TV’s Fifth Annual Arts Telefest on March 29 at the Concord High School. The program included classic jigs by Marshall and Nathaniel Gow and a set of traditional hornpipes. SRSNH dancers Alicia Lekas and Pauline Collins contributed an exuberant burst of color.

“Save the Hornpipe!”  That is the cry and motto of the N.H.P.S – the National Hornpipe Preservation Society.  Hornpipes are lovely tunes generally written in 2/4 or 4/4 time nowadays, that have a jaunty “dotted rhythm” characterized by a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note.  They are also an “Endangered Species” as hornpipes [...]

On September 12, Jack, the market master met me as I pulled into the parking lot. He performed a short song(1) and dance(2)  about how he now realized why, despite his readings of the weather forecasts and maps, it was already raining on the market – the SRSNH was playing and bringing some Scottish weather [...]