{"id":876,"date":"2021-02-18T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourweeklylisten.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2021-02-18T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T01:24:15","slug":"cucanandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/music\/cucanandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucanandy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This little gem is my song of the week. Originally an Irish dandling song (that&#8217;s a song you sing to a small child while you bounce them on your knee), &#8220;Cucanandy&#8221; also works well as a jig. <br><br>The accomplished young musician you see in this video is playing an Irish bouzouki and her father is playing a concertina. The bouzouki, which originated in Greece, has been adapted to play Irish fiddle tunes, like a mandolin but in a lower octave, as you can see here. A lovely melody and a lively arrangement! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dedicate this week&#8217;s post to the memory of my aunt Shelagh, who played the concertina and loved folk music of all kinds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cucanandy (father\/daughter duet) octave mandolin + concertina\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H540-eBzOE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little gem is my song of the week. Originally an Irish dandling song (that&#8217;s a song you sing to a small child while you bounce them on your knee), &#8220;Cucanandy&#8221; also works well as a jig. The accomplished young musician you see in this video is playing an Irish bouzouki and her father is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}