Learn a Manx fiddle tune: Oikan Ayns Bethlehem
Channel: Culture Vannin
Date: 2017-03-13

Learn to play a traditional tune from the Isle of Man on the violin, "Oikan Ayns Bethlehem" (Born in Bethlehem).
This is a melody for a carval, the traditional form a Christmas-time carol on the Isle of Man.

This short lesson is presented by one of the Isle of Man's foremost violin teachers, Laura Rowles. Her profile on the Mannin Music website can be found here: http://www.manninmusic.com/teachers/laura-rowles/

The notation for tune features in the book 'Fiddyl,' available from the Manx Music website:
http://www.manxmusic.com/publication_type_index_69791.html

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