Music notation, with guitar chords, for 27 tunes by 27 current composers, in a stunning collection, of new and recent tunes, arranged and printed in sets for playing. Featuring composers comments on their tunes, many a poignant reminder of Covid times.

Foreword by Adam Sutherland

Composers - Liz Carroll, Alasdair Fraser, Charlie McKerron, Bruce McGregor, Eilidh Steel, Sally Simpson, Amy Geddes, Eilidh Shaw, Jenna Reid, Gordon Gunn, Duncan Chisholm+Hamish Napier, Patsy Reid, Jonny Hardie, Kevin Henderson, Paul Anderson, Sarah-Jane Summers, Marie Fielding, Ross Couper, Anna Massie, Emma Tomlinson, Lauren MacColl, Chris Stout, Catriona Macdonald, Douglas Montgomery, Gavin Marwick, Mike Vass, Laura Wilkie

Ideal present for yourself, or the fiddle player in your life !

Patti is an old friend of mine, married to Marty Fahey who is an even older musician friend of mine. Many a time Patti and I chatted during the pandemic, and it occurred to me to finally write a tune for her. I think the tune is extremely happy, symbolic of the bolstering up Patti and I did for each other while so much of what was happening in the world was sad. Finally, since Patti sounds like Paddy, and Paddy Fahey was a legend tune writer, who never named his tunes - hence they are all titled “Paddy Fahey’s” - I couldn’t resist adding another Fahey’s albeit Patti, to the Irish music lexicon. Liz Carroll

Press Pause was written in July 2020, just as the first lockdown was about to be lifted. To me, it felt that life had been paused for a few months and the tune was written to celebrate being reunited with loved ones as we unpaused. Anna Massie

The Ox is dedicated to Andrew Dodds, the very fine American fiddle player who attended Blazin’ in Beauly as a teenager. He wasn’t quite as good at the football, as we discovered at a fiddle camp in Boston where he managed to break a few windows and fellow participants - you’ve heard of a bull in a china shop? Well, this was his version! Bruce MacGregor

Good Days was written in summer 2021, as a celebration of starting to really believe there would be light at the end of the tunnel, and a reminder for days when that light feels rather dim. For my sister, Rowan. Sally Simpson