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Hector the Hero
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Played on fiddle and octave fiddle, this duet is a Scottish lament composed for the fallen hero. Luke plays one note on the octave fiddle the first time through this song. The octave fiddle is tuned below a viola and above a cello.
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The Lowlander Highlanders perfrom traditional jigs, reels, polkas, and aires, from the northern Appalachians on fiddle and drum.
Fiddle and drum - bones, spoons, jawharp, deer toe rattler etc, Beverley Conrad and Luke Glick have paired up to perform a wide variety of traditional folk and Celtic tunes from the northern Appalachians.
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Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
Charts
Peak #193
Peak in subgenre #13
Author
Arranged by Conrad and Glick
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Beverley Conrad and Luke Glick
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October 22, 2007
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MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:53
Story behind the song
Hector the Hero was written as a lament and a tribute by Scottish composer James Scott Skinner in 1903 for a friend, Major General Hector MacDonald, who committed suicide on account of illness and rumors of being homosexual.
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