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Memories of Joe

Just before we put up this new version of the site, I emailed some likely friends and posted on Facebook in an appeal for some good photos of Joe fiddling. It was unsurprising, but still moving, to feel the warmth of people’s response and great to see pictures, quite a few which I had never seen before. So, this page is a place for us to put such photos and any written memories people want to send to us to share. There are a few tunes that people have written in tribute to Joe which we will make a place for here. My memory of Joe at sessions was always that he not only could be a mighty ‘tune-engine’, but that he was good at remembering or sussing out what tunes the whole room would know. He could bring a room together.

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Tim Dalling Tim Dalling wrote on November 29, 2020 at 11:41 am
I have particularly fond memories of many late nights in Bishopsworth Rd in Bristol with Gill and Kate Newlyn and Chris Liddle, where we would turn up at midnight after gigs 'in the vicinity', ready to play music till morning. I can remember Joe's glee at the prospect of a happy few hours, having a drink and a smoke and feasting on fiddle tunes. Helping my son Tom and his friend Raj redesign the website and sort through all the tunes has been very much a labour of love. Now it's done, I'm glad to have a bit more time to start learning some of the tunes I'd never heard before. I've got my eye on 477 Madam Etienne Waltz (tape 9), and Joe's tune 161 'Reel to Reel' in Bb (tape 3) and maybe a Snaprats or two from Tape 5...
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