The Seafaring Fiddler : Violin Edition (Violin ed)

Violin Edition. 22 fiddle tunes from the golden age of sail, featuring dance tunes, shanties work songs, recreational forebitters and composed melodies which give the landlubbers take on the romance of the sea.

Edward Huws Jones explains that during the heyday of sail, the busiest sea-routes of all were the North Atlantic crossings, especially between Liverpool and the American cotton ports it was the heady mixture of African-American and Irish music which gave birth to the mid-century flowering of the sea shanty.

Meanwhile English-speaking vessels were sailing to the Cape, India, Australia and many other far-flung