The prime requirement of any dance band is that the music should be very danceable. Different kinds of dances require
different kinds of rhythms, but all must have the effect of helping the dancers to dance. Ceilidh dancing is no exception.
Tumbling Tom play mainly English traditional tunes, with some self penned and continental tunes to add diversity. These
tunes
have their natural rhythms underpinned by a driving rhythm section.
Videos - To see and hear us playing, check out the following YouTube clips -
2022 - Crook Morris Christmas ceilidh in Kendal Parish Hall -
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a short compilation
- opening song written by Steve, followed by Deck the Halls for a polka
- Brilliant Pebbles for the dance Twelve Meet
- Kit Whites Square Eight and Sward'l Lasses for the Cornish Six Hand Reel
- Lemonville Jig and Pantheon Cotillon for the Bromyard Square
- Roman Wall and Spirit of the Dance for the Boston Tea Party
- Mary's Boy Child for Aitch
At the Furness Tradition Festival ceilidh with the big band -
2017 - a tune and schottische written by the band
At the annual Christmas ceilidh with the Big Band
2017 - Brilliant Pebbles for Wring out the Dishrag
2013 - our version of William Irwin's Lancashire Hornpipe
2012 - the polka Brilliant Pebbles
2011 - our version of Little Town of Bethlehem that we play for the Files schottische.
To see and hear us in our usual lineup without brass -
2013 - our versions of Astleys Ride and the Lichfield Tattoo
2012 - two local tunes Hero of Salamanca and Moll in the Wood for the Foula Reel
Recordings - Examples of our playing without the brass frontline can be heard below. These clips were taken from our CD
'Beats Working' made in 1999
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Two hopsteps, the first from the south of England, and the second a local tune by Hamilton who was a pupil of William Irwin the Langdale fiddler - Dorsetshire Hornpipe/Stybarrow Crag |
| Two Polkas, an English one and a French-canadian one - Double Lead Through/La Bastrangue |
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| Two jigs, one from Dartmoor, and the second from the Matthew Betham collection from near Morland in Westmorland - Woodland Flowers/Seven Stars |
