Meadow Rise Hornpipe

by Marina Dodgson

This was the winning tune in the composing category at the 2023 Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering. I named this tune after the home I lived in as a teenager, which I was helping my parents to sell at the time that I wrote this tune.

Marina Dodgson is a fiddle player from the North East of England. She is one of three directors of Phoenix Folk, which promotes participation in traditional music both locally and online. She is one half of the fiddle/guitar duo Miggins Fiddle, which forms the basis of several other projects including the Miggins Fiddle Ceilidh Band and an extensive programme of online tune sessions. She writes arrangements for the Phoenix Folk Virtual Ensemble and the Phoenix Chamber Folk Ensemble, and her work has also been adopted into the repertoire of a number of local ensembles including the Tyneside Fiddle Alliance. Through Phoenix Folk, she has published two collections of harmony arrangements.

Marina was awarded first place in Composing Excellence at the 2021 & 2023 Morpeth Northumbrian Gatherings. She also won the Variations trophy in 2019.