Enema Reel
Composed in 1999 by accordion player Corey Clarke of Western Bay, Conception Bay, this tune has a peculiar title. While studying nursing, Corey composed this tune and christened it after his first experience with an enema. We don't know all the details but can only assume what happened. The tune is a two-part reel and in Corey's words, "the first part is pretty easy going but you can sense the urgency in the second part!"
Subliminal Waltz
Well-known flute and whistle player Gerry Strong, originally from Little Bay Islands, says he composed this waltz after hearing the first three notes on the radio while getting out of his car one day. As he walked in to his house, he just started whistling the rest. Gerry thought it might have been something he'd heard a while ago that "just sat in the folds of me brain somewhere" - hence the name. However, after playing it for many different people, none of whom recognized it, he is pretty certain it's an original.
Post Festival Blues
Having volunteered the whole weekend of the 1997 Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival, accordion player Stan Pickett felt a little blue when it was all over. Stan, originally from resettled Fair Island in Bonavista Bay, was playing his accordion the morning after the post festival party when he came up with this melody. He chose this name because it described the way he felt at the time. However, it's a pretty lively jig that has a feeling of anything but the blues!
Roger Hansell's
Fiddle maker and player Colin Carrigan, from Topsail Pond, composed this tune while living in England a few years ago. At the time, he was apprenticing with violin maker Roger Hansell for whom he named the tune. It has become a regularly played session tune in St. John's and is especially well-suited to the fiddle.