Welcome to COLIN BRADFORD's website for NORTHUMBRIAN MUSIC

In the past

Over the years this website has been the home of lots of web pages about my interests in Northumbrian music.
At different times, there have been sections on:

Colin Bradford

• Alnwick Pipers' Society
• BorderBox
• The Castle Band
• The Gadgie Collective
• The Tight Alnwick Gadgies
• The Ukulele Riff-Raff

Some of those pages have long since disappeared but many can still be found (albeit mostly out-of-date) in the Bands section

 

 

Nowadays - Work in progress

My current reason for running this website is to document the tunes and arrangements that I have written over the last fifty years.

If you go to the Tunes section you'll find a gradually increasing collection of jigs, reels, rants, hornpipes, waltzes and slow airs.

Some were written to fill gaps in band sets - and some as teaching material. Some are tributes to family and friends - and some were written just for fun.

I hope there'll be at least a few in there that you'll enjoy playing.

NB: This is very much in the early development stage so there are lots of gaps and discrepancies.

Colin Bradford



T u n e s

B a n d s

B o r d e r B o x


You'll find tunes sorted by name and also by rhythm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I find them in my archive, this is where I'll put photographs and memorabilia on:

  • The Killingworth Sword Dancers
  • The Castle Band
  • The Harvesters
  • Stanley Accirngton &
    The Third Division North
  • The Newcastle Electric Ceilidh Band
  • Hotspur's Heroes
  • The Castle Band - again
  • The Tight Alnwick Gadgies
  • The Ukulele Riff-Raff