The Anglo Concertina Music of Phil Ham

Phil Ham has been playing the Anglo concertina for over 75 years and is one of the most-influential early innovators playing in the harmonic style.

Both John Kirkpatrick and John Watcham credit Phil for inspiring their early playing, yet he has never recorded commercially or with any traditional folk bands.

He is known mostly for his lifetime of playing for traditional English Morris dance teams, but also plays a variety of other types of music including madrigals, hymns, and classical pieces.

Over 60 of Phil’s tunes and songs are included in this book, carefully transcribed to be played on a standard 30-button C/G Anglo concertina.

All tunes feature the same easy-to-use button numbering and tablature system found in all the other Rollston Press concertina books, along with Button Maps to show exactly which buttons are needed for every tune.

Also included – QR code links of historical recordings of Phil playing every tune!

THE TUNES: A Great and Mighty Wonder, A-Roving, Bacca Pipes, Balance the Straw, Balancy Straw, Banbury Bill, The Banks of the Dee, Beaux of London City, Billy Boy, The Black Joke, Blaydon Races, Blow the Man Down, The Bluebells of Scotland, Bobbing Around, Bobby Shaftoe, Bound for the Rio Grande, Country Gardens, Dearest Dicky, Double Lead Through, The Dressed Ship, Drunken Sailor, Fine Knacks for Ladies, Fire Down Below, Getting Upstairs, The Geud Man of Ballangigh, Handkerchief Dance, Here’s to the Maiden, Highland Mary, Hunt the Squirrel, I Saw Three Ships, Jockey to the Fair, Johnny Come Down to Hilo, The Keel Row, Lads a-Bunchum, Maid of the Mill, Maypole Dance, Milley’s Bequest, Monk’s March, Mrs Casey, None So Pretty, Now is the Month of Maying, The Nutting Girl, On Ilkley Moor Baht ‘At, Princess Royal, The Quaker, Rodney, The Rose, Santy Anna, Shenandoah, Sheriff’s Ride, Since First I Saw Your Face, Strike it Up, Tabor, Trumpet Tune in D, Trunkles, Twenty-Ninth of May, Valentine, Vandalls of Hammerwich, The Vicar of Bray, William & Nancy.