Kathryn Tickell - 'Air Moving'

Kathryn Tickell and band (Peter Tickell - fiddle, Joss Clapp - guitars, Julian Sutton - melodeon). Song taken from a live set, recorded at The Zodiac, Oxford. 8th September 2004

[@eytonshalom]

why do pipes, of any kind, played like this, bring me to tears every time...this is so beautiful....

[@emperoroberon]

I love Kathryn Tickell. I hope she will always make such beautiful music. SHE IS WONDERFUL!!

[@tubemagpie]

How wonderful to be able to pay such a tribute to a friend

[@DeWoodyard]

Not NEAR enough likes. Get after it, people!!!!!

[@geoff1945]

A beautiful video. I love the emotion Kathryn puts into her playing. Anyone with any experience of folk concerts will know that folk-songs need to be explained and this is part of the pleasure of the performance. Besides, I find her voice as mesmerising as her music.

[@vancelupton3309]

geoff1945 ii

[@vancelupton3309]

Sorry about the earlier message - that wasn't a message at al! I first saw Katherine over ten years ago and have seen her many times since.ma beautiful performer! This , Air Moving, perhaps my favourite track.

[@CaTheYowes]

A beautiful tune, beautifully and sensitively played. A wonderful story. Very moving. What more can I say.

[@GeoffreySmithbreath]

Wow, to be so loved to have such music to haunt your passing to hold you memory in such tender soulfulness. Good on yer Bruce. Thank you

[@jimmycarr22]

Wow just stubled across this, Katryn used to come to my school to teach us music from time to time, bit of a local legend! Nice to see Northumbrian music doing the rounds!

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

What a beautiful tribute to a great individual Love You Too. Please continue for decades man. Love it 🥰

[@simonjones2010]

The more i listen to queen Tickell the more i adore her grasp of humanity and how she transcribes it to music.

[@eleanormorse8572]

Gorgeous, and so moving (like air). Thank you.

[@angussmith4305]

what a wonderful story and my heart is sore listening, thankyou yet again Kathryn

[@ianlogan9415]

What a wonderfully moving and haunting tribute.

[@simonjones6133]

just found you Kathryn Tickell and am listening to everything i can get my ears on waye aye lol. really love the work on small pipes, really brilliant love it very much.

[@robertesposito8288]

Just a bit of dust in my eyes . You don't just move air , you move soul . So beautiful ❤️🌹

[@bheavenor8842]

Just discovered this on you tube. Thank you so much for sharing the beauty of your creation and dedicated memory of a dear freind.

[@mandobob59]

You really had to know Bruce to appreciate these stories but they're true. A wonderful tribute and the music says it all!

[@antonohaodha1846]

A MOST BEAUTIFUL PIECE

[@colincarr2052]

Simply wonderful and always will be

[@brans2329]

come back to watch this every now and again, beautiful story

[@wiggsan]

She is nothing but stunning!! No wonder this kind of music is becoming so popular in the states. I myself have recently switched from the bluegrass style of banjo to the Irish tenor banjo. I just am captivated by all aspects of this music...

[@S24W2]

A beautiful tune played by a beautiful person

[@mathew8]

Great composition, so deeply touching...

[@fannyingabout]

Beautiful piece of music.

[@chealy64]

Bruce is a legend, what a beautiful man he was XXX

[@benedictturnbull32]

Tunes, poetry, any way a song tries to go, can often go elsewhere, Lass... you are the songsterss and player of the smallpipes... best player Northumberland/Newcastle has seen for many a decade...

[@iansdigby]

I saw Kathryn Tickell in a pub, I think 'twas in Hexham, in the early 80s and have loved the Northumbrian pipes ever since.

[@jim1205]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@Chrismacleod777]

What beautiful music!

[@mickeblue]

Spearmint Lady you touch my heart. Parched by the time you started playing

[@chealy64]

Bruce is a legend, what a beautifulm man he was XXX

[@walkernick86]

I really don't get why some people are so ignorant to say she talks too much! ! knowing the circumstances surrounding the composition of a piece of music really enhances the listening experience! ! if you can't be arsed finding out more about the music from the composer her self... then don't be selfish and listen to the music anyway! hight of musical ignorance! !

[@bonnybluehare]

Well said. Music has become so much like just another commodity for the consumer, anything that reminds us that the act of writing a tune may well be an act of love. I found this particular story moving, others may not, but I certainly appreciate that the preamble was not edited out of the video.

[@socrates834]

Couldn`t agree morewalkernick86, knowing some of the background etc adds to the interest.

[@MrFair]

walkernick86 Agree 100%. Stories like that are always very interesting and I find it sad that they're mostly edited out of the video on KZbin.

[@wiggsan]

I agree totally!

[@mebigkahuna]

I spent some years in the UK and going around trad performances you learn that the storytellin', the backstory, is a quintessential component of the performance and in instances imperative in understanding the context of the piece. If you are after instant gratification, then this is not for you.

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

Love the Northumbrian Pipes 👍🏻💝

[@ianclayton4483]

Went to your gig in Blackheath 15 or so years ago. Made a change from the D&B I’d hear at Fabric.

[@MrConan89]

Top shelf.

[@M4DDISON]

she can talk all day for me when she plays she plays thats where the talent is i think she is the bees knees love ya katheryn keep playing girl xxx

[@handysandy4u]

Superb pipe music by a Queen on the Northumbrian smallpipes

[@antonohaodha1846]

excellent

[@nikosblaxabas5338]

A lovely sensative soul wrapped up in a beautiful physical form

[@BodhranBob]

Just exquisite...

[@euth]

lovely, just lovely ♥️

[@Lynnefromlyn]

sublime.

[@frankatack385]

It don't get much sweeter than that..!!

[@paras494]

❤️

[@54321bb]

Fantastic

[@bonnybluehare]

Well said Kathryn

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Great tune and truly amazing playing!!! Ruiseart.

[@Hokeydokey29]

what a beautiful tune Bruce must have been a beautiful man god bless Bruce

[@wendyballi468]

Aye great performance

[@davelow7586]

Certainly moved me! I'm having to dry my eyes!

[@simonjones2010]

kathryns music hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, just perfect

[@garethdavies1538]

Just foofin' hav it!

[@haldur86]

This is very, very moving :)

[@wiggsan]

She is as stunning as her music....

[@a.a.1253]

Clicked like on the video when I heard "percussion arena" before the performance even started.

[@failtecav]

What a tune, knowing the background of a slow air makes it all the more poignant! It sounds to me like a celebration of Bruce's life, rather than a tune mourning his death!

[@wiggsan]

Call me crazy, but I love the way she says, "cop a tea."

[@xxxchrist1]

Wow.

[@Quodge]

Why am I crying?

[@maryricketts5275]

nice

[@piofernandezlopez7376]

Actually the Basques did not have much to do with bagpipes in the Iberian peninsula. It is more in Portugal and in Spain (Galicia, Zamora, Asturias, Leon, La Rioja, Aragon, Catalonia, Balearic Islands,...), where you still find a good diversity of regional versions of these instruments, as it also happens in France. All of them with their origins dated back to the Middle Ages, if not earlier.

[@jordisoler3269]

I've been living all of my life in Catalonia and I never saw a catalan bagpipe. They are played in Asturias and Galicia (celtic areas of iberian peninsula)

[@piofernandezlopez7376]

check: lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sac_de_gemecs

[@piofernandezlopez7376]

or : ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sac_de_gemecs

[@ruudvandenberg4380]

Mickelharp

[@RamonRieraiFont]

I play sac de gemecs (catalan bagpipe). Thank you, Pio, for not forgetting us.

[@Senpatientulo]

Yeah, that's really moving

[@wiggsan]

I would like to learn this tune on the tin whistle and I'm new to that instrument. What tin whistle key would I need to buy?

[@williamswhistlepipes]

lovely melody , very moving what key are the pipes.

[@graemeclarke4268]

Kathryn what became of your mun? I was at Burringham and Gunness School in the mid 70/s when you lived in north lincs as a very young girl as a year mybe 7/8 year old and your mum was may year teacher........Miss Kathryn...and I think you lived in North Links at a place alled hiblstow for a couple of years?

[@nikosblaxabas5338]

What a sensitive soul...

[@deslm]

Give her a fucking break. She wrote the song for a friend who's obviously passed!

[@mrtreebus]

XXX

[@onreflechit]

Je découvre ! C’est magnifique ! Mais elle cause bcp trop…….!!!!

[@kerplunkboydotNET]

If you're impatient like myself, just skip to 3:45

[@guydulac3902]

I do like a Northumbrian woman that can handle a distressed sheep...

[@richtrophicherbs]

Barry Garlow has clearly either not listened to Chris Ormston's tuning or has ears too insensitive to notice there's anything wrong with it. His rhythmic flow is not in the same league as KT's either.

[@walkernick86]

I really don't get why some people are so ignorant to say she talks too much! ! knowing the circumstances surrounding the composition of a piece of music really enhances the listening experience! ! if you can't be arsed finding out more about the music from the composer her self... then don't be selfish and listen to the music anyway! hight of musical ignorance! !