AE FOND KISS - Rune Barslund

During 1787-1788 the world-famous Scottish poet Robert Burns had a relationship with a beautiful woman called Agnes Maclehose, known to her friends as 'Nancy.' Agnes, at the time when meeting Burns, was separated from her husband. It is widely thought that Robert and Agnes’ relationship was only platonic because Agnes was married, and they only ever shared one kiss even though Burns was keen to consummate the relationship. They wrote many passionate love letters and poetry to one another using the pseudonyms Sylvander and Clarinda to keep their relationship secret.
In 1791 Robert and Agnes saw each other for the last time on December the 6th. Although Burns had now been married to another woman for several years, he was still fond of Agnes and wrote the poem Ae Fond Kiss for her after their final meeting. He sent it to her on December the 27th, just before she sailed to Jamaica to be with her estranged husband. Ae Fond Kiss became one of Burns’ most famous poems and was set to the tune of Rory Dalls Port. Nowadays, it is usually sung to a tune made or arranged by John Michael Diack (1869-1946), who said it was based on an old Scottish Air.
Despite having outlived Robert by 45 years, Agnes always treasured the memories of their time together. Under the date, 6th of December 1831, she wrote in her journal: "This day I can never forget. Parted with Burns, in the year 1791, never more to meet in this world. Oh, may we meet in Heaven!”
This arrangement can be found in my book "Celtic Music for Free-Bass Accordion", which provides you with original arrangements of 11 popular songs and slow airs from Ireland and Scotland, as well as four of my own compositions. Some arrangements solely feature the free-bass system while others combine both free-bass and Stradella bass. This gives the player more options for varying the sound and developing the arrangement. The book also includes background stories for each piece as well as tips and tricks on Celtic ornamentation and extended chords. Pack your accordion and journey across the Celtic Isles with this book as your guide 🪗📖
The book can be bought from these webshops:
👉 folkshop.dk/sh...
👉 zzmusic.uk/acc...
Each verse, as notated in the book, can be found at the following time codes:
00:05 Verse 1
00:34 Verse 2
01:02 Verse 3
01:31 Verse 4
🎶 If you want to hear more of my music, you can check out these websites:
www.inver.dk
www.andreasrune.dk
You can also find my old band Kasír on Spotify as well as here on KZbin.

[@ThomasBarslund-xc3bf]

Det er så godt ❤❤

[@RuneBarslund]

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[@tullochgorum6323]

KZbin is a strange place. As a general rule the better the musician the fewer views they get. This channel deserves far more exposure!

[@RuneBarslund]

Thanks a lot for the kind words 🙏 I'm glad you like my music and my channel 😊 Nowadays, it seems like KZbin favours channels that upload new videos every week. We put quite a lot of work into my videos, which takes time, and costs money, so I'm not able to release videos often enough for my channel to crack the algorithms, I believe 😕 Or maybe it's just because there are too few people who are interested in accordion music 😅

[@tullochgorum6323]

@@RuneBarslund Yes - KZbin seems to value quantity over quality. So people churn out potboilers rather than invest in fine productions like this. What depresses me as someone who loves traditional Scots music is that some pretty wee American lass with no sense of the music at all gets 100k views, while brilliant musicians embedded in the tradition struggle for exposure. When I was a kid the accordion had become unfashionable in Scotland - it was associated with corny ceilidh bands. But then Phil Cunningham came along and changed everything. I knew one of the founders of Silly Wizard and was surprised when they invited Phil to join. I thought it would make the band uncool. How little I knew! But in Denmark the accordion has always been quite popular, I think? As I child I remember a great village dance in Tisvildeleje with a very fine accordion player.

[@RuneBarslund]

​@@tullochgorum6323 Yes, it's frustrating how the algorithms often favour quantity over quality these days. It used to be different, which was a good thing for most folk and trad. musicians, but those days are gone. I've heard many trad. musicians complain about the new algorithms and how their videos get far less views nowadays. You are right, it's not always the best musicians who get the most views. A lot of other things plays a big role too. Phil Cunningham is an amazing musician and composer! He is a gift for the accordion and for traditional Celtic music in my humble opinion (even though the tradition is amazing already of course). The accordion was very popular back in the 20's and 30's here in Denmark, but we've struggled a lot with the image of the accordion in Denmark for many years. The same goes for traditional music here, but that is slowly changing for the better. Fingers crossed the same thing will happen for the accordion 🙂🤞

[@tullochgorum6323]

@@RuneBarslund Good to hear that trad music is regaining ground in Denmark. You have a wonderful heritage and it's so important that the young people learn to appreciate it! I've been aware of you music since I was a kid. We had a series of wonderful Danish au pairs and they introduced us to the tradition. We're still in touch with one of them - she became Minister of Education! I was lucky enough to spend some time with the talented fiddler and scholar Ditte Fromseir who is an expert on the tradition on Bornholm. Interestingly she has tracked down a strong English influence which reached Denmark via Norway in the 18th C. We're all interconnected! If by any chance you don't know her work, she's a hell of a musician! kzbin.info/www/bejne/goWVeYiXg7iZftE As you probably know, the tradition is pretty healthy in Scotland and Ireland. Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain are national treasures and pack any hall. Trad is less mainstream in England where I'm living, but there's an abundance of young talent and a healthy future.