Newcastle Waites

A really nice tune by way of Boldwood.

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=tunearch.org/wiki/Nobody%27s_Jig.no-ext/0001

and another version with an added tune:

Here is close to the way I play this tune.  (If I'm way off, someone please tell me.)

Ran across this in a few places in England. 

I first encountered this tune on this website:

https://folkmusicnotes.wordpress.com/

 It is (was) played by the Whirley Band in Oxford on May morning , and most of the videos save for this one involve Andy Letcher. :

Found out via a English pal Peter Kanssen that it is a branle de Bourgogne by Jaques Moderne which has been adapted or morphed.

Anyway I recorded a version tonight and am posting it in the hope that someone else might like it , learn it, and wish to play it.

I got this tune from Stephen who was at Halsway Manor for the hurdy-gurdy / bagpipe weekend. Jon Swayne used it in his workshop as it had a good use the minor 6th.  It's a lovely mazurka.

Another tune by the chap that wrote Mr Cunningham's Maggot and which pairs well with that tune.  Here is a you tube of them together:

The above version is on a B-flat / E flat melodeon.

However there is a version on a G/C box here:

And, in what looks like a singular blog post, the sheet music:

http://olliekingtunediary.blogspot.co.uk/

I have been playing this tune a bit and when researching some variants I found this website with info and this funny bit:

"The song was a roaring success in the Music Halls, made popular by James Hurst Stead, who, after the final verse, went straight into an early version of the punk pogo dance, where he is said to have jumped up and down 400 times during the song, and sometimes performed it in four different venues in the course of one night!"

https://folkmusicnotes.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/the-perfect-cure/

A tune from the first edition of Playford.

We got it from an English group, The Committee Band. Their website say this about it:

“From På bar gärning by Kangas Spelemän from Finland. If our uneducated attempt at translation is correct, this mazurka comes from Pertti Vuomajärvi, one of the great old Lapp melodeon players who was born in 1894.”

I also found this youtube:

Which in the description has info about the guy in Swedish, which can be translated with an online translator.

This is a waltz from William Winter's Quantock's Tune Book.
William Winter was a fiddle player who lived from 1774 to 1861 in the Quantock Hills in Somerset.