The 4-part Gmaj version of the Dublin reel goes by the name of Jim McCormick's http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2269. The standard D version only has 3 parts. Tear The Calico gets called the Clogher Reel also. 2 additional tunes often get played, so that the set goes:
1) Connemara Stockings
2) Jim McCormick's (G version of Dublin Reel)
3) Clogher Reel (Tear The Calico)
4) The Four Courts
5) Jenny Tie Your Bonnet
Thanks Dow - that's the titles I have for them. Having said that I've yet to hear the set played with the two additional reels. The first three normally work for our local set dancers and I can only guess that the five are required for some obscure set!
I don't think the 3rd tune was "Tear The Calico" - it's the variant known as "A Fair Wind", titled that apparently by Seamus Ennis. Virtually the same tune,though. Just listened to the "Kitchen Session" programme you referred to. Christy Barry had some nice tunes in his reel set, and I liked the Kevin Griffin & co couple of jigs. I've always known the 4-part "Dublin reel" in G as "The Westmeath Hunt", which was the title given to it by Miko Rusell on the recording made with his brothers around 1974.
Two of the Kitchen Sessions thus far have featured this set: the first, in Cooraclare on Oct. 7th, and the third, in Doolin on Nov. 4. In both cases, the set was played identically, with Stockings/Jim McCormick's (G) /Tear the Calico (or variant). A great set, thanks to all for setting me straight on the name(s), which for a tune-name neurotic like myself are important.
I play Tear The Calico and the Fair Wind (being a similar 3-parter tune in G or A), but in sessions I go to we always play Tear The Calico in this set. Have we been playing it wrong, I wonder..
Kilfenora reels set
Kilfenora reels set
What is the name of the second tune in the set of reels made famous by the Kilfenora Ceili Band ? : The Connemara Stockings / ??? / The Four Courts
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by alec b
Re: Kilfenora reels set
Tear the Callico. The Last one is the Dublin reel by the way, not the Four Courts
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by kilfarboy
Re: Kilfenora reels set
Thanks! I've been hearing this set repeatedly on the Clare FM Kitchen Sessions, and couldn't seem to find that second tune with abc snippet searches.
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by alec b
Re: Kilfenora reels set
The 4-part Gmaj version of the Dublin reel goes by the name of Jim McCormick's http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2269. The standard D version only has 3 parts. Tear The Calico gets called the Clogher Reel also. 2 additional tunes often get played, so that the set goes:
1) Connemara Stockings
2) Jim McCormick's (G version of Dublin Reel)
3) Clogher Reel (Tear The Calico)
4) The Four Courts
5) Jenny Tie Your Bonnet
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Dow
Re: Kilfenora reels set
Thanks Dow - that's the titles I have for them. Having said that I've yet to hear the set played with the two additional reels. The first three normally work for our local set dancers and I can only guess that the five are required for some obscure set!
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Bannerman
Re: Kilfenora reels set
I don't think the 3rd tune was "Tear The Calico" - it's the variant known as "A Fair Wind", titled that apparently by Seamus Ennis. Virtually the same tune,though. Just listened to the "Kitchen Session" programme you referred to. Christy Barry had some nice tunes in his reel set, and I liked the Kevin Griffin & co couple of jigs. I've always known the 4-part "Dublin reel" in G as "The Westmeath Hunt", which was the title given to it by Miko Rusell on the recording made with his brothers around 1974.
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Kenny
Re: Kilfenora reels set
Two of the Kitchen Sessions thus far have featured this set: the first, in Cooraclare on Oct. 7th, and the third, in Doolin on Nov. 4. In both cases, the set was played identically, with Stockings/Jim McCormick's (G) /Tear the Calico (or variant). A great set, thanks to all for setting me straight on the name(s), which for a tune-name neurotic like myself are important.
# Posted on November 21st 2007 by alec b
Re: Kilfenora reels set
I play Tear The Calico and the Fair Wind (being a similar 3-parter tune in G or A), but in sessions I go to we always play Tear The Calico in this set. Have we been playing it wrong, I wonder..
# Posted on November 21st 2007 by Dow
Re: Kilfenora reels set
"wrong" in inverted commas of course..
# Posted on November 21st 2007 by Dow
Re: Kilfenora reels set
Dow don't go soft on us now, you can't be wrong even inverted inside commas!
# Posted on November 21st 2007 by Donough
Re: Kilfenora reels set
If i live to see the day that someone says that the set is 'wrong' because we should have played this before that I will know Its time to retire!
# Posted on November 21st 2007 by jig
Re: Kilfenora reels set
Had to come back to correct this. I listened to the set again, and the 3rd tune is indeed "Tear / Rip The Calico". Sorry about that.
# Posted on November 26th 2007 by Kenny