2 Famous Hurdy-Gurdy tunes, St Patrick's An Dro & Vergers (2026) #hurdygurdy #houseofguinness

#hurdygurdy #circledance #drone https://nigeleaton.bandcamp.com/music St Patrick's An Dro & Vergers (trad & N Eaton) a 17thC dutch style hurdy gurdy by Chris Eaton St Patrick's Andro is a trad tune. Vergers is a tune I wrote and the dots for it are in my fb photo albums as usual. The live take is filmed on a pair of old iphones and at the same time recorded onto garageband, I then add extra hurdy gurdy parts, bass, keys etc then I mix this full audio with the phone audio in imovie. No loopers or hidden musicians.... just endless fannying about, swearing and general cheating for effect. Nigel Eaton is a British multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for playing the hurdy-gurdy. Eaton played the piano and cello before switching to the hurdy-gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began manufacturing them. Eaton has been described as the "foremost hurdy-gurdy player in popular music in North America and Europe" Eaton has performed as a member of a number of different bands, including Whirling Pope Joan (with Julie Murphy), Blowzabella, Ancient Beatbox, The Duellists, and Firestarters of Leiden. He has released two solo albums, The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy (1987) and Pandemonium (2002), and the collaborative album Panic at the Café (1993) with Andy Cutting. As a session musician, Eaton has contributed to the film scores for Robin Hood, The Shipping News, Kingdom of Heaven, Aliens, Mansfield Park, Tulip Fever, and Carl Davis's 1980 score for the 1927 silent film Napoléon. Eaton wrote "The Halsway Schottische", a song which later became "The Halsway Carol" (with lyrics by friend and collaborator Iain Frisk) and has seen hundreds of versions performed.[4] He has performed Howard Skempton's Concerto for Hurdy-gurdy and Percussion (written for himself and Evelyn Glennie) with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Eaton has collaborated and recorded with a wide range of other artists including Afro Celt Sound System, Loreena McKennitt, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Scott Walker, Shelleyan Orphan, New London Consort, Heidi Berry, Gary Kemp, Bombay Bicycle Club, Blue Aeroplanes, Martin Simpson, The Palladian Ensemble, Moya Brennan, Robert Plant, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Silly Sisters, The Tavener Consort, Jake Walton, and Hamish Moore. In addition to his work in music and film, Eaton is a designer and maker of built-in furniture in South London. https://nigeleaton.bandcamp.com/music