Reel (2017)

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.

Jim Hunter is a fantastic piano player from Ottawa, whom I first met in 2010 at the Ottawa Fiddle Club. Since then, I’ve had the honour of playing with Jim many times at the Fiddle Club, as well as at various jam sessions and concerts in the Ottawa area. I’ve always admired Jim’s ability to pick up difficult chord progressions by ear and on-the-fly, as well as being able to adapt his accompaniment to suit a variety of fiddle styles.

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