Does anyone know any tunes by the great Cavan/Philadelphia fiddle player Ed Reavy, in particular the Whistler of Rosslea which can be heard on the first Martin Hayes record? His tunes seem to be fairly intricate to play which makes them difficult to work out just from listening to them.
Padraig,
I'll post the Whistler of Rosslea in the tunes seciton pronto. Great tune, and fairly simple the first time thru. Hayes comes up with some inventive variations, but I'll give the straightforward version.
Will
Help! To post Whistler of Rosslea, I need either C dorian or C minor (C natural, but with three flats: A, B, and E) added to the key choices. Thanks,
Will
Sorry Zina, beat ya to it. Actually, Maudabawn Chapel is pretty easy once you get the ribbon of seemingly rampbling notes in your head. Check out the tune posts.... I'd like to see what sorts of variations people do for Maudabawn. Put the abcs in the comments thread under that tune.
Thanks,
Will
Thanks, Will! Actually, we use that one for dance class so often, I'm surprised it isn't largely stuck in my head already.
Funny story about Maudabawn Chapel -- we usually play a faster version by Kevin Burke or one of his groups in dance class. One day during stretches I was playing Eileen Ivers's Wild Blue and we got to her version. I said something about how it was amazing how different it was from the other version, and people actually argued with me that it wasn't the same tune!
Ed Reavy seems to have written a vast number of tunes - it wouldn't surprise me if he were still writing them posthumously. The ones I hear the most are 'The Hunter's House' and 'Maudabawn Chapel'. I posted another one, 'The Fisherman's Island', a few months ago. Just when I thought I had heard (or seen in collections) all of his tunes, I found another one on a Kathleen Collins record. The title is only given as 'Reavy's' - I'll post it in a minute.
germans are known for doing things very serious (what might have its reasons in the structures of the language - or, as one of my favourite non ITM musicians Frank Zappa once said, when the job of creating the world in seven days had its toughest moments, God switched over to the mother language of engineers which is german..... ) .... but don
Ed Reavy Tunes
Ed Reavy Tunes
Does anyone know any tunes by the great Cavan/Philadelphia fiddle player Ed Reavy, in particular the Whistler of Rosslea which can be heard on the first Martin Hayes record? His tunes seem to be fairly intricate to play which makes them difficult to work out just from listening to them.
# Posted on October 1st 2001 by Padraig Cotter
Re: Ed Reavy Tunes
Padraig,
I'll post the Whistler of Rosslea in the tunes seciton pronto. Great tune, and fairly simple the first time thru. Hayes comes up with some inventive variations, but I'll give the straightforward version.
Will
# Posted on October 1st 2001 by Will Harmon
Jeremy: New Key needed
Help! To post Whistler of Rosslea, I need either C dorian or C minor (C natural, but with three flats: A, B, and E) added to the key choices. Thanks,
Will
# Posted on October 1st 2001 by Will Harmon
Re: Ed Reavy Tunes
Really? An EASY Ed Reavy? Wow! Heh. My favorite is Maudabawn Chapel. I'll have to see if I can get it in right, I always get posting stuff wrong.
zls
# Posted on October 1st 2001 by Zina Lee
Re: Ed Reavy Tunes
Sorry Zina, beat ya to it. Actually, Maudabawn Chapel is pretty easy once you get the ribbon of seemingly rampbling notes in your head. Check out the tune posts.... I'd like to see what sorts of variations people do for Maudabawn. Put the abcs in the comments thread under that tune.
Thanks,
Will
# Posted on October 2nd 2001 by Will Harmon
Re: Ed Reavy Tunes
Thanks, Will! Actually, we use that one for dance class so often, I'm surprised it isn't largely stuck in my head already.
Funny story about Maudabawn Chapel -- we usually play a faster version by Kevin Burke or one of his groups in dance class. One day during stretches I was playing Eileen Ivers's Wild Blue and we got to her version. I said something about how it was amazing how different it was from the other version, and people actually argued with me that it wasn't the same tune!
Zina
# Posted on October 2nd 2001 by Zina Lee
Re: Ed Reavy Tunes
Ed Reavy seems to have written a vast number of tunes - it wouldn't surprise me if he were still writing them posthumously. The ones I hear the most are 'The Hunter's House' and 'Maudabawn Chapel'. I posted another one, 'The Fisherman's Island', a few months ago. Just when I thought I had heard (or seen in collections) all of his tunes, I found another one on a Kathleen Collins record. The title is only given as 'Reavy's' - I'll post it in a minute.
# Posted on October 4th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Ed Reavy Tunes
Cranford Publications in Cape Breton has a tune book of Ed Reavy's tunes for sale.
Here's a link
http://www.cranfordpub.com/books/ed_reavy.htm
They're also a good source of books for all things Cape Breton (e.g., Jerry Holland, Winston Fitzgerald, etc.)
Jeff Willner
# Posted on October 8th 2001 by jeff_willner
Ed Reavy @ TheSession
so far the list of Ed Reavy Tunes in the Tune Collection consist of
"The Fisherman
# Posted on April 10th 2002 by crannog
"Doktorarbeit" on Ed Reavy
germans are known for doing things very serious (what might have its reasons in the structures of the language - or, as one of my favourite non ITM musicians Frank Zappa once said, when the job of creating the world in seven days had its toughest moments, God switched over to the mother language of engineers which is german..... ) .... but don
# Posted on May 10th 2002 by crannog