Scad the Beggars

Riley Piddington & 'Scad the Beggars' singing Sam Hall at their weekly session in the Bushmills Inn, Bushmills, on the Causeway Coast of County Antrim.

Deborah, Alan, Dick & Sam playing The Wild Rose of the Mountain on Oboe, Tin Whistle, Nyckelharpa & Northumbrian Pipes, at our old Tuesday night Session in Ma~Kelly's, Church St., Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.

Three members of the north Antrim group 'Scad the Beggar' playing two Irish Jigs The Idle Road & The Coleraine Jig on Tin Whistle & Mandolins at our weekly Ballymoney session, which used to be held in Ma~Kellys on Church Street.

Members of Scad the Beggars, Sam Fleming playing Northumbrian Pipes & Dick Glasgow playing English Concertina in Ma~Kelly's, the old venue for their regular weekly session in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.

Riley Piddington on Vocals & Guitar, on this wonderful old Scottish song, with Deborah Mairs on Tin Whistle, Sam Fleming on Northumbrian Pipes & Dick Glasgow on English Concertina.

Scad the Beggars singer Riley, singing Willie o' Winsbury at their weekly session in the Diamond Bar, Ballymoney. We hadn't heard Riley sing this old Scottish Ballad before, so we just picked it up as it went along ... the Traditional "By Ear" method.

The Scad the Beggars YouTube Playlist contains 84 videos of members of the group Scad the Beggars, who promote the Music & Song of North Antrim, taken at their weekly Sessions in Bushmills & Ballymoney, in Co. Antrim.

Breen Wood is one of the best examples of old Sessile Oak Woods in Northern Ireland. It is a National Nature Reserve & the ancient gnarled and stunted oak trees which form most of the canopy, help to provide the magical atmosphere of this special place. I took the photos which help to show off some of its wildlife.

I composed this tune in honour of the Derrykeighan Stone ( Iron Age c.50AD ) which was only discovered in 1977 in the ruins of the old church at Derrykeighan, between Dervock & Bushmills. I also took the photos used in this video.

This is a musical tribute to the many Castles & Standing Stones of North Antrim. The music accompanies this collection of photographs I've taken of just some of the many magnificent Megalithic Monuments, Castle ruins, Church ruins, Stone Circles, Chambered Graves, Court Tombs, Crosses and Standing Stones, to be found throughout the Causeway Coast & the Glens of Antrim region.

Two Hornpipes played here as another musical tribute, this time to the magnificent stained glass windows that you see in this video & which can be seen in The Allen and Adair Hall in Dervock, north Antrim, in Northern Ireland which, I understand, they are the only physical tribute that exists today, to Lord Nelson, anywhere on the island of Ireland.

The River Bush from source to sea, is a journey, with music, along the River Bush in Co. Antrim, from its source on Slievenanee, through the hamlets of Magherahoney & Clintyfinnan, the villages of Armoy & Bushmills & by Dervock & Portballintrae to the North Atlantic Ocean in 62 of my photographs.

Galboly, the Deserted Village in the Glens of Antrim. Photos I've taken of the deserted village, accompanied here by one of J. Scott Skinner's finest compositions, The Miller O Hirn, played here on Fiddle, English Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer.

The video clips of Bonamargy Friary, near Ballycastle, which I took & used in this video, are accompanied by two Reels, The Witch of Glentow & The Black Nun, composed by Dick Glasgow & played by him on Anglo Concertina & Bodhran.

In memory of Fiddle Maker - Sam Stevenson, of Broughshane Co. Antrim, who was a well respected Fiddle Maker & Fiddle Player. Sam was a founder member of the Derry & Antrim Fiddlers Association & had a great fondness for the fiddle playing of Shetland Fiddler Willie Hunter, especially his playing of Slow Airs.

As well as being a member of Scad the Beggars, Steven Wilson runs his own Ceilidh Band - the Dancin' Digits Ceilidh Band.

For over twenty years, Dick Glasgow has taught Traditional Music, both Irish and Scottish Music, in many Maintained, Controlled and Integrated Schools during the school day, throughout the Causeway Coast and Glens region of North Antrim & East Derry.

In this article I wrote on the Traditional Fiddle Players of North Antrim, both past & present, I mention around 40 local fiddle players who were active in living memory, which indicates just how popular traditional music was, at one time, in North Antrim.

My Blog on the history of the Hammered Dulcimer in County Antrim, the making & playing of the instrument, from it first coming over to the county from Scotland.

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The regular Saturday night session in the Gas Bar of the Bushmills Inn features Scad the Beggars playing the popular Scottish & Irish traditional music & song of this region.

The FUSE Centre, Ulster-Scots Community Hub is located in the Heart of the main shopping area in Ballymoney and provides the ideal location for the Association to deliver a number of their charitable purposes.

The Sam Henry Song Collection relates to the wonderful publication ‘Songs of the People’, which includes over 850 songs collected by Sam from singers & musicians from across North Antrim & East Derry.