"What Child Is This - Green Garters" genre: Celtic
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	Our Brubeckesque 5/4 rendition of this venerable tune leads into the 18th century Scottish version of the Greensleeves melody, performed as a jig. The set ends with a reel called Green Garters, here given some serious fusion energy with a percussion collective and a pennywhistle with attitude.Guitar, bass, flute, congas, fiddle, bodhran, cello, pennywhistle, djembe, dumbek, tambourine, bonkersticks
	CD: Cold Fusion   Label: FiddleSticks Credits: Traditional
	Story Behind the Song This set obviously owes thanks, or maybe apologies, to the Dave Brubeck Quartets Take Five for the inspiration for the opening arrangement of the traditional 16th century English Greensleeves melody. The Greensleeves tune is thought to have originated in the late 1500s. Legend has it that Henry VIII wrote it for Anne Boleyn during their courtship (circa 1530), but this has never been substantiated and probably isnt true. The tunes Christmas pedigree is relatively recent: in 1865 English poet William Chatterton Dix (b. 1837) wrote a poem called The Manger Throne which was set to the Greensleeves melody and has become known as What Child is This? Before that, however, the tune was given New Years words; the Oxford Book of Carols has a traditional carol called The Old Year Now Away Has Fled, which is set to this tune, and dates to 1642. We learned the alternate melody that we play as the Greensleeves jig from Bonnie Rideouts Scottish Christmas collection. There it is described as a uniquely 18th century Scottish version of the Greensleeves tune. The Green Garters reel seems somehow well matched to the Greensleeves jig. We found the Green Garters in Capt. Francis ONeills 1903 collection of Irish melodies.] Guitar, bass, flute, congas, fiddle, bodhran, cello, pennywhistle, djembe, dumbek, tambourine, bonkersticks

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