Hornpipe (2016)

In 2015, I won the Eastern North American Irish Fiddle Competition and qualified to compete at the All-Ireland Fiddle Competition in Sligo, Ireland. I ran a crowd-funding campaign online to help make the trip possible, and one of the perks of donating was receiving a tune composed by yours truly. This is one of the eight tunes I was commissioned to write.

My good friend Anthony Vial is a wonderful piano player and fiddler from Ottawa. We’ve played at jam sessions together in Canada, the US, and Ireland, and have performed together on many occasions. Anthony loves to play Irish tunes, and is also very good at playing out melodies on the piano, so this is a tune I thought would honour both those qualities.

RECORDED ON: Kyle Burghout: The Prism Within, Track 9 (2017)