Okay, it's time for the semi-annual/monthly thread -- quick! What tune are you playing/learning/listening to this week?!
Donegal Tinker, still. Also trying to get The Famous Ballymote into long term "I can start that" memory instead of just short term "how does that start?" session memory, where it's always lived.
Noisy Curlew got picked up pretty quickly this week, but Donegal Tinker is still killing me... I've got maybe a third of it, but which third changes each time through the tune...
Zina, I'm working through your lovely transcriptions of Fly-Fishing Reel, Michael Tennyson's, and John Burke's. I'm about half way through them...thanks!
I've been obsessed with those tunes since my box playing buddy introduced that recording to me a few weeks ago.
Da Scalloway Lasses and Bonnie Anne (The Fermanagh one) Thanks to Slainte for putting the idea of Bonnie Anne in my head, and Nomos for the idea of putting it with the Shetland tune.
And my mother for putting up with me for all those years.
to all my friends, whoever they may be.
And indeed wherever they may be (I haven't seen them for years).
And to Mike and Ronnie for keeping the Catherine Wheel a great pub.
And to all the others who know who they are, and if they don't, they're probably not the others at all.
I love you all!
Re-working the way I play Morrison's Jig, and trying to figure out what I want to do with Sean Ryan's Jig, which I've always sort of known but never really made my own.
Also obsessed with Kevin Burke's version on The Coalminer. Talk about doing simple things well! Think it's on a Patrick Street CD - I tend to put things onto my own compilations then forget where they came from. It's worth listening to if you can find it.
I'm on a 'dust off the classics' binge, with Sunny Banks, Shaskeen, & the Scholar. I'm still obsessed with Singing Stream though. Yeah, I've got to dig up Bonnie Annie, well not literally, the Harry Bradley setting?
I just realized the alliteration in my choices & it reminds me of that hilarious Celebrity Jeopardy on SNL with Sean Connery where the category is S-words & he thinks it Swords? Anyone see that? Totally classic.
I'm from Ballymote and I never knew we had a tune or even that it was famous! I knew the tune to play alright but not the name of it til now. but thanks to Zina now I can add another one to my list of tunes to cheer for when someone starts it in a session (the list up until now comprising solely of the Sligo Maid, since I am one!)
Cheers Zina!
Cherish the Ladies. A local box player (from Cork) plays this tune at his session so I want to have it next time his sesh comes around. It's one of the big jigs.
Hey fiddlemethis,
Is Bob McQuillens named after an old New England Contradance player who plays piano and accordion? Not to drop names or anything, but I met him at a festival a few years ago, great guy!
Holly Bush on Liam Farrell and Joe Whelan's superb cd. Some great flute by James Carty on that track.
Also heard a lovely French waltz (no, really!) called l'Inconnune de Limoise. Beautiful.
Oh, and I just learned Rolling in the Ryegrass, a simple and fun tune that I somehow missed learning (probably because I couldn't find it in any of the tunebooks I have in my house--thank the Lord for The Session website). Somebody visited our session and played it.
"Father Newman's", the last tune off the last track of Mike Rafferty's Speed 78 CD. Also still going through the workshop tape from the Catskills and getting various gan ainm slides and polkas from Paul McGrattan.
Besides flogging the hornpipes, just started on The Cock & the Hen and Humours of Whiskey. I always had a morbid fear of slip jigs for some reason so haven't learnt more than a few.
Fiddle: Tom Billy’s (jig). After a too long absence from fiddling I have to get back one of my favorites. Oh, and Jockey to the Fair.
Guitar: Trying to clean up my old fingerstyle rendering of The Peacock’s Feather. Having a bit of trouble keeping the accompanist (my thumb) from overpowering the melody at times. The other fingers are getting annoyed (“Thumbs - do we really need them? I mean, they just boom along and slow us down!”)
Any of the tunes on Brian Rooney "The Godfather" but namely Tie the Bonnet. Just feels lovely to play! And The Shaskeen is makin a comeback for me. Actually the two of them together would be nice....
A set of two single reels - Andy Davey's, and The Pullet and the Cock. Ok people, the jokes have ALL been done .
The supernatural "c"s in the B-part of The Pullet are particularly effective if you pay attention to their tuning, and they really make the tune. I believe they are intended to indicate the crowing of the cockerel (a.ka. "rooster" in the USA). Also, in the low-register A-part plenty of rolls and other ornaments can give an impression of the pullet (a young hen) scratching for food in the farmyard.
I've also just finished getting a set of three polkas under my belt - The Green Cottage, followed by Church Street (only too easily if I'm not concentrating!), and finishing with Gurteen Cross. A good set, btw, for a polka figure in set dances..
Rolling Wave from Liam O'Flyn and Joe Heanny, David Power,Mick O'Brien / Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh ; Sport/Rolling in the Rye Grass from Mick O'Brien / Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh... <Its "rolling" week, first the Stones, now me>... and My Darling Asleep / Out on the Ocean from nothing in particular except excerpts from "Boys and Girl from County Clare".
Must be the waves rolling in the ocean with my darling sleep....
Emily_oz- is the Sean Connery clip somewhere on the web?? I saw a snippet of it via a freind of mine from work and it was a ROTFLOL moment- which was hard when you're at work... in a cube... with 3 other people looking at a monitor.
Reverend- There really is a "Fly Fishing Reel"?? What a great name.
Trevor, I've just learned 'The Green Cottage' as well. What a fantastic polka! Jerry said it's one of the first tunes he learned, but no one played it so he sort of forgot it ...
It's my first tune on the b/c box!
I got it from the Johnny Leary book, where did you find it?
I was taught The Green Cottage earlier this year by Phil Dawson, the leader (fiddle and banjo) of a local Bristol band - The Polka Pests. He learnt it during travels in Ireland. On the fiddle, fast quarter-tone slides onto some of the notes are very effective - pity that's a problem on the b/c box
The beginning of The Green Cottage has the same melodic shape as the beginning of Church Street, which is why, for me, it can be too easy to slip into the Church Street polka without having done The Green Cottage the right number of times!
I played this polka set at a session in Swinford Co Mayo last week in response to the usual kindly invitation for the visiting player to "play us a tune". The Green Cottage, as it happened, was the one they weren't familiar with.
Well, in the process of learning Humours of Ballyloughlin [Finally.] but as for a tune that I DO know, probably a combination between Hunter's Purse and My Love is in America. Bah, screw it. I love 'em all!!
Yep there really is a tune called the "Fly Fishing Reel". I believe it was composed by Jackie Daly. You can find it on a mad-cool must-have recording featuring Verena Commins and Julie Langan:
Anglo: "Banshee" and "Banish Misfortune". Given that just about any tune is "one I don't know" how to play, I'm playing Dow's game of Members>tunebooks> and walking down the list. (Which is a pretty good way to get things thrown at you in mixed keys and time sigs. At the rate I'm progressing it will probably be a year or two before for I get down to where I have to learn the tune, as well as find it on the concs.
Well, I don't have anything better to do with that time.....
I'm using my post-ALevel, pre-UL summer to learn as many tunes as possible so I'm doing at least one a day, yesterday's was The Dash to Portobello. (I only learnt one yesterday because I ended up writing five, dammit!)
Today I want to learn Up with Leitrim (although I may have to modify the name because it hurts me to say that, and so I don't become a traitor to my home county) and John Brennan's. Though having said that I'll probably get distracted by the Kane Sisters CD I got the other day and end up learning as many as I can off that!
A "Gan Ainm" reel from an old Miltown tape, played by Dermot Byrne, and 2 sisters, Clodagh and Orla McGrory. Will post that soon, and would appreciate help in identifying it.
Also on the same tape, "The Chicken Reel", composed by Frankie Gavin and Mairtin O'Connor. It's on De Danann's "Song For Ireland" recording and has 6 parts. The version posted on this website has 4 parts missing.
_steph_- did a google on the title and found it-; especially from celtic grooves that has stuff I've wanted to purchase for a while- another cd bites the wallet
Reinforcing "The Morning Star" and "The Dear Irish Boy"
and managed to split the various presentations here of "Drowsy Maggie" into seven or eight versions in the one ABC file, and I'm learning the basic (originally posted) one. (It used to set my teeth on edge when the ABC file would play all the variations one after the other and I couldn't get a handle on the tune at all.) I quite like one of the versions by Dow (I must have a soft spot for that Northumbrian sound) and one by Jack Glider.
And when I've got that one, next on the list is "The Plains of Boyle". And then "the Bucks of Oranmore".
I've just been back from a wonderful tour of New Caledonia with the band I play with. The tunes I can't get out of my head are - The Bunch of Roses (rockin the south pacific erin!!), Mouth of the Tobique, there's another really awesome Sharon Shannon 3/2 galician waltz I learnt off her acoustic tour album, Tom Morrow's The Siesta (by the way, whoever put the dots down for that in this website, you rock big time. awesome transcription!) and that really cruisey bretony type piece from Mike McGoldrick/Sharon Shannon/Frankie Gavin album. It's track four tune 1. It's 1am in Australia, and I'm going to trawl the website looking for more cool tunes to learn this week
Lovely tunes here, guys, what fun we're all having! Tricia, which Last Night's Fun? Fel, yes, all three of the tunes of the first set of Fonnchaoi are in the tunes section here at The Session, The Fly Fishing Reel/Michael Tennyson's/John Burke's. Michael Tennyson's is more commonly known as Poor But Happy at 53.
Yeah, Fly Fishing Reel is a great tune... I don't think it is particularly common at sessions because of the strange key. The only time I've really played it at a session is when we've gotten into the "pull out all the strange tunes you know" mode.
For a while, we tried playing it in a set that we called the "Sushi Set" (Eel in the Sink, Crib of Perches, and Fly Fishing Reel)
b2jay - I transcribed The Siesta a while back on a train when I was bored, and then I saw it in the requests list here and thought it was too good a tune to deprive thesessioners! Especially those from Brizzy. I'm gonna have to write a tune called Up Akermanis... or Up Lockyer, depending on whether the Lions or the Broncos do better these seasons! ;)
Zina - Sherburn, Bartley & Scott's Last Night's Fun - great band, especially live. They've recorded The Famous Ballymote on their album "Tempered" which is a great CD. http://www.lastnightsfun.com
There's a hornpipe called Famous Flowers of Ballymote, and a polka, Memories of Ballymote. These were titles used on records by musicians from...Ballymote. Or thereabouts.
Fel, there's a reel, Rolling in the Barrell, or Roll out the Barrell? Something like that. Good for a punny medley.
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Thanks Tize, I'm really enjoying the Siesta you did a mean job of it! Hehe.... I'm not too fond of Akermanis . He used to go to the school I used to teach at, and he didn't have a 'good temper' then either. But then that would make for a great tune!!
I'm learning the hornpipe version of "An Paistin Fionn" on the anglo concertina (just started playing this lovely instrument last month and love it!) and Boy in the Boat on the fiddle. (learnd from Sean Cleland at a workshop in Goderich last week!)
Re Fly-fishing - it's a great tune but the one on the end of that set on Fonnchaoi is a nightmare to play! It really shows off their technique. Michael Tennyson's is brilliant.
The best set though has to be Paddy Canny's/Commodore/Glorious Farewell to Milltown, & the lovely Princess Royal & Imelda Roland's on the Bb box. Which are the tunes I'm learning right now (bringing it back madly to the thread).
Question though - the links to the sheet music for Burke's and Paddy Canny's Toast from the Fonnchaoi listing here bear no relation to the tunes on the CD. I suppose they are to tunes with the same name??
John Burke's is in the database, Siobhan -- http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/315 -- wow, that was the 315th tune? It was transcribed directly off the recording. I did that as an exercise -- my teacher gave us all a different recording and asked us to learn every tune on it and teach it to everyone else in the class. I didn't make it all the way through Fonnchaoi, but had a grand time learning the ones I did.
I quite like these "what tune" threads -- they remind me of tunes I'll have forgotten about, and give me inspiration to discover some new ones.
I learnt a very cool tune today from Fianna's first album, but I have no idea of the title of it. It could be one of the funky trad tunes, or it could be one of Jani's own tunes. I've tried an advanced search here but didn't get any results. I'll have to find out what it is - it's seriously cool! Does anyone have that first album that could give me the track listings?
HI Zina, you're right; I can't remember how I clicked through to the other Burke's (it was the one that starts BEEDE-- on the Lunasa album). Still haven't cracked navigation for teh site.
Thank's for the transcription - I'd never noticed the alternate endings - actually I must have because I used to glare at my session partner for playing it different to me! Ooops! Serves me right for being judgmental & getting it wrong.
What's the tune this week?
What's the tune this week?
Okay, it's time for the semi-annual/monthly thread -- quick! What tune are you playing/learning/listening to this week?!
Donegal Tinker, still. Also trying to get The Famous Ballymote into long term "I can start that" memory instead of just short term "how does that start?" session memory, where it's always lived.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Bob McQuillens reel
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by RogueFiddler
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Noisy Curlew got picked up pretty quickly this week, but Donegal Tinker is still killing me... I've got maybe a third of it, but which third changes each time through the tune...
Pete
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Reverend
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The Jolly Beggerman.I love Brendan Power's version with Chris Newman on guitar,awesome!!!
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by meri-lawes
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Bethena and Solace.
KFG
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by KFG
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Zina, I'm working through your lovely transcriptions of Fly-Fishing Reel, Michael Tennyson's, and John Burke's. I'm about half way through them...thanks!
I've been obsessed with those tunes since my box playing buddy introduced that recording to me a few weeks ago.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Keith Dubinsky
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Da Scalloway Lasses and Bonnie Anne (The Fermanagh one) Thanks to Slainte for putting the idea of Bonnie Anne in my head, and Nomos for the idea of putting it with the Shetland tune.
And my mother for putting up with me for all those years.
to all my friends, whoever they may be.
And indeed wherever they may be (I haven't seen them for years).
And to Mike and Ronnie for keeping the Catherine Wheel a great pub.
And to all the others who know who they are, and if they don't, they're probably not the others at all.
I love you all!
(runs off in floods of tears)
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Ottery
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Ahh, Fly Fishing Reel is a great tune! We actually dragged that out (moderately well played, considering how long it has been) at a session last week.
Pete
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Reverend
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Re-working the way I play Morrison's Jig, and trying to figure out what I want to do with Sean Ryan's Jig, which I've always sort of known but never really made my own.
Also obsessed with Kevin Burke's version on The Coalminer. Talk about doing simple things well! Think it's on a Patrick Street CD - I tend to put things onto my own compilations then forget where they came from. It's worth listening to if you can find it.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by kris
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I'm on a 'dust off the classics' binge, with Sunny Banks, Shaskeen, & the Scholar. I'm still obsessed with Singing Stream though. Yeah, I've got to dig up Bonnie Annie, well not literally, the Harry Bradley setting?
I just realized the alliteration in my choices & it reminds me of that hilarious Celebrity Jeopardy on SNL with Sean Connery where the category is S-words & he thinks it Swords? Anyone see that? Totally classic.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by emily_bmore
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Naughton's Jig and Neil Gow's Wife. Re-learning.
Listening to Keri's Composium CD! It finally came in the mail.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Michele Sims
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"Kerri's" My eyesight is going to h**l......
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Michele Sims
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I'm from Ballymote and I never knew we had a tune or even that it was famous! I knew the tune to play alright but not the name of it til now. but thanks to Zina now I can add another one to my list of tunes to cheer for when someone starts it in a session (the list up until now comprising solely of the Sligo Maid, since I am one!)
Cheers Zina!
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by an_insoluble_pancake
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Every hornpipe I can think of - trying to improve my banjo triplets!
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by pickndude
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Cherish the Ladies. A local box player (from Cork) plays this tune at his session so I want to have it next time his sesh comes around. It's one of the big jigs.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Hey fiddlemethis,
Is Bob McQuillens named after an old New England Contradance player who plays piano and accordion? Not to drop names or anything, but I met him at a festival a few years ago, great guy!
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by AlBrown
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Holly Bush on Liam Farrell and Joe Whelan's superb cd. Some great flute by James Carty on that track.
Also heard a lovely French waltz (no, really!) called l'Inconnune de Limoise. Beautiful.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Cath
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More standards for me...
The Congress
Tatter Jack Welch
The Banshie
Sally Gardens
couple others
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Pete D
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Oh, and I just learned Rolling in the Ryegrass, a simple and fun tune that I somehow missed learning (probably because I couldn't find it in any of the tunebooks I have in my house--thank the Lord for The Session website). Somebody visited our session and played it.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by AlBrown
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"Father Newman's", the last tune off the last track of Mike Rafferty's Speed 78 CD. Also still going through the workshop tape from the Catskills and getting various gan ainm slides and polkas from Paul McGrattan.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Jason G
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AlBrown, were you afraid to use Jeremy's name in vain?
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Cath
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Robertson's reel, also known as Robertson's hornpipe - very sweet
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Cath
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Besides flogging the hornpipes, just started on The Cock & the Hen and Humours of Whiskey. I always had a morbid fear of slip jigs for some reason so haven't learnt more than a few.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by pickndude
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The Chicago Reel
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by snorre
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Fiddle: Tom Billy’s (jig). After a too long absence from fiddling I have to get back one of my favorites. Oh, and Jockey to the Fair.
Guitar: Trying to clean up my old fingerstyle rendering of The Peacock’s Feather. Having a bit of trouble keeping the accompanist (my thumb) from overpowering the melody at times. The other fingers are getting annoyed (“Thumbs - do we really need them? I mean, they just boom along and slow us down!”)
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Bob himself
McDonagh's (Charlie Lennon's) that i heard for the first time (i think) this summer in a session.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Washoo
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Timmy "The Brit" McCarthy's composition - The Pretty Polka
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by _Steph_
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re-learining 'cup of tea' (what a cool tune!)
learning 'the choice wife' and 'the rainy day'
sarah (in portland)
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by sarahc
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Two Mary Bergin inspired jigs Nora Criona & The Monaghan.
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by Chef Paul
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Hollybush is a great tune . . .never heard it at a session unfortunately.
This is the last week for me before school starts, so it's been a big tune one.. .
Cooley's --> one of those 1/2-learned fake through it tunes that I wanted to actually know
Musical Priest
Tommy Peoples' - The one in G
Feeding the Birds
Mary McMahon
Some hellishly weird GHB tune from an Old Blind Dogs CD called "Soup of the Day."
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by wormdiet
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Any of the tunes on Brian Rooney "The Godfather" but namely Tie the Bonnet. Just feels lovely to play! And The Shaskeen is makin a comeback for me. Actually the two of them together would be nice....
# Posted on August 12th 2005 by JM
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A set of two single reels - Andy Davey's, and The Pullet and the Cock. Ok people, the jokes have ALL been done
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The supernatural "c"s in the B-part of The Pullet are particularly effective if you pay attention to their tuning, and they really make the tune. I believe they are intended to indicate the crowing of the cockerel (a.ka. "rooster" in the USA). Also, in the low-register A-part plenty of rolls and other ornaments can give an impression of the pullet (a young hen) scratching for food in the farmyard.
I've also just finished getting a set of three polkas under my belt - The Green Cottage, followed by Church Street (only too easily if I'm not concentrating!), and finishing with Gurteen Cross. A good set, btw, for a polka figure in set dances..
Trevor
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Trevor Jennings
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Rolling Wave from Liam O'Flyn and Joe Heanny, David Power,Mick O'Brien / Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh ; Sport/Rolling in the Rye Grass from Mick O'Brien / Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh... <Its "rolling" week, first the Stones, now me>... and My Darling Asleep / Out on the Ocean from nothing in particular except excerpts from "Boys and Girl from County Clare".
Must be the waves rolling in the ocean with my darling sleep....
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by I_Fel
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Emily_oz- is the Sean Connery clip somewhere on the web?? I saw a snippet of it via a freind of mine from work and it was a ROTFLOL moment- which was hard when you're at work... in a cube... with 3 other people looking at a monitor.
Reverend- There really is a "Fly Fishing Reel"?? What a great name.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by I_Fel
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The Shakin's o' the Pocky from Natalie McMaster's "My Roots are Showing". She plays it beautifully.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by John Culhane
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Not any more. . .car roof.
KFG
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by KFG
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Trevor, I've just learned 'The Green Cottage' as well. What a fantastic polka! Jerry said it's one of the first tunes he learned, but no one played it so he sort of forgot it ...
It's my first tune on the b/c box!
I got it from the Johnny Leary book, where did you find it?
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Ottery
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I was taught The Green Cottage earlier this year by Phil Dawson, the leader (fiddle and banjo) of a local Bristol band - The Polka Pests. He learnt it during travels in Ireland. On the fiddle, fast quarter-tone slides onto some of the notes are very effective - pity that's a problem on the b/c box
The beginning of The Green Cottage has the same melodic shape as the beginning of Church Street, which is why, for me, it can be too easy to slip into the Church Street polka without having done The Green Cottage the right number of times!
I played this polka set at a session in Swinford Co Mayo last week in response to the usual kindly invitation for the visiting player to "play us a tune". The Green Cottage, as it happened, was the one they weren't familiar with.
Trevor
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Trevor Jennings
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Well, in the process of learning Humours of Ballyloughlin [Finally.] but as for a tune that I DO know, probably a combination between Hunter's Purse and My Love is in America. Bah, screw it. I love 'em all!!
Cheers,
Armand
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by armandale
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The Merry Blacksmith
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by rob zouk
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Jimmy Ward's in D you know Lunasa's version I just played the first set from Merry Sisters at a performance that is the second tune in it.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Why Bother?
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I_Fel -
Yep there really is a tune called the "Fly Fishing Reel". I believe it was composed by Jackie Daly. You can find it on a mad-cool must-have recording featuring Verena Commins and Julie Langan:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display.php/44
And once you have that tune, you will most certainly want the 2 that come after it. And then you will want the rest of the tunes on that recording.
Cheers.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by _Steph_
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Fiddle: "White Petticoat " and "Eels in the Sink"
Anglo: "Banshee" and "Banish Misfortune". Given that just about any tune is "one I don't know" how to play, I'm playing Dow's game of Members>tunebooks> and walking down the list. (Which is a pretty good way to get things thrown at you in mixed keys and time sigs. At the rate I'm progressing it will probably be a year or two before for I get down to where I have to learn the tune, as well as find it on the concs.
Well, I don't have anything better to do with that time.....
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Owell Mabee
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So, you listened to my playing of Bonnie Anne, Ottery. I'm not sure if I play in the "northern" style.
I recently found Mary McMahon sounds really beautiful on the flute.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by slainte
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I'm using my post-ALevel, pre-UL summer to learn as many tunes as possible so I'm doing at least one a day, yesterday's was The Dash to Portobello. (I only learnt one yesterday because I ended up writing five, dammit!)
Today I want to learn Up with Leitrim (although I may have to modify the name because it hurts me to say that, and so I don't become a traitor to my home county) and John Brennan's. Though having said that I'll probably get distracted by the Kane Sisters CD I got the other day and end up learning as many as I can off that!
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by tbag
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By the way, Zina, have you heard Last Night's Fun's setting of the Famous Ballymote? I love it!
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by tbag
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A "Gan Ainm" reel from an old Miltown tape, played by Dermot Byrne, and 2 sisters, Clodagh and Orla McGrory. Will post that soon, and would appreciate help in identifying it.
Also on the same tape, "The Chicken Reel", composed by Frankie Gavin and Mairtin O'Connor. It's on De Danann's "Song For Ireland" recording and has 6 parts. The version posted on this website has 4 parts missing.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Kenny
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The Roaring Barmaid!
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by ecidralla
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_steph_- did a google on the title and found it-; especially from celtic grooves that has stuff I've wanted to purchase for a while- another cd bites the wallet
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by I_Fel
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Reinforcing "The Morning Star" and "The Dear Irish Boy"
and managed to split the various presentations here of "Drowsy Maggie" into seven or eight versions in the one ABC file, and I'm learning the basic (originally posted) one. (It used to set my teeth on edge when the ABC file would play all the variations one after the other and I couldn't get a handle on the tune at all.) I quite like one of the versions by Dow (I must have a soft spot for that Northumbrian sound) and one by Jack Glider.
And when I've got that one, next on the list is "The Plains of Boyle". And then "the Bucks of Oranmore".
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Innocent Bystander
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Fraher's JIg
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by harry
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I've just been back from a wonderful tour of New Caledonia with the band I play with. The tunes I can't get out of my head are - The Bunch of Roses (rockin the south pacific erin!!), Mouth of the Tobique, there's another really awesome Sharon Shannon 3/2 galician waltz I learnt off her acoustic tour album, Tom Morrow's The Siesta (by the way, whoever put the dots down for that in this website, you rock big time. awesome transcription!) and that really cruisey bretony type piece from Mike McGoldrick/Sharon Shannon/Frankie Gavin album. It's track four tune 1. It's 1am in Australia, and I'm going to trawl the website looking for more cool tunes to learn this week
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by b2jay
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"Fraher's Jig" goes really well with "Old Hag You Have Killed Me".
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by dafydd
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Lovely tunes here, guys, what fun we're all having! Tricia, which Last Night's Fun?
Fel, yes, all three of the tunes of the first set of Fonnchaoi are in the tunes section here at The Session, The Fly Fishing Reel/Michael Tennyson's/John Burke's. Michael Tennyson's is more commonly known as Poor But Happy at 53.
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Zina Lee
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How bout poor but happy at 57???
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by I_Fel
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Just found Fly fishing Reel- lovely tune and in A!!
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by I_Fel
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Yeah, Fly Fishing Reel is a great tune... I don't think it is particularly common at sessions because of the strange key. The only time I've really played it at a session is when we've gotten into the "pull out all the strange tunes you know" mode.
For a while, we tried playing it in a set that we called the "Sushi Set" (Eel in the Sink, Crib of Perches, and Fly Fishing Reel)
Pete
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by Reverend
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b2jay - I transcribed The Siesta a while back on a train when I was bored, and then I saw it in the requests list here and thought it was too good a tune to deprive thesessioners! Especially those from Brizzy. I'm gonna have to write a tune called Up Akermanis... or Up Lockyer, depending on whether the Lions or the Broncos do better these seasons! ;)
Zina - Sherburn, Bartley & Scott's Last Night's Fun - great band, especially live. They've recorded The Famous Ballymote on their album "Tempered" which is a great CD.
http://www.lastnightsfun.com
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by tbag
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About to start working on memorizing Humors of Lissadell, Maud Millar, Jolly Tinker.
Reviving my memory of Genevieve's Waltz and Midwinter Waltz.
Sesh tonight!!!
# Posted on August 13th 2005 by sara g
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There's a hornpipe called Famous Flowers of Ballymote, and a polka, Memories of Ballymote. These were titles used on records by musicians from...Ballymote. Or thereabouts.
Fel, there's a reel, Rolling in the Barrell, or Roll out the Barrell? Something like that. Good for a punny medley.
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# Posted on August 13th 2005 by KLR
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Thanks Tize, I'm really enjoying the Siesta you did a mean job of it! Hehe.... I'm not too fond of Akermanis . He used to go to the school I used to teach at, and he didn't have a 'good temper' then either. But then that would make for a great tune!!
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by b2jay
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My mother died in the pool at Lourdes. Or Chuireas mo bhean agus rinceas ar uaighe
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by Pól
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Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released. I can't get it out of my head, and it's definitely inspiring my fiddle playing at the moment
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by Just a person
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Written by Dylan.
KFG
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by KFG
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I'm learning the hornpipe version of "An Paistin Fionn" on the anglo concertina (just started playing this lovely instrument last month and love it!) and Boy in the Boat on the fiddle. (learnd from Sean Cleland at a workshop in Goderich last week!)
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by aoife
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Doctor O'Neils. You find it here [?] so try other websites or tune books.
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by paratroopers
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Navvy On the Shore and Bohola Jig, two tunes from Pat Broaders in his workshop in East Durham.
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by wvwhistler
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Manha de Carnaval - learning words in Portugese coached by my son's Portugese girlfriend. Also a tune called 'Dean Street'
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by flying tigerpig
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Stuck on The Exile of Erin. Going nowhere, but still. Love the minor sadness. Found it in Sully's. He is a radical composer. Its beautiful.
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by Clear Drops
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Re Fly-fishing - it's a great tune but the one on the end of that set on Fonnchaoi is a nightmare to play! It really shows off their technique. Michael Tennyson's is brilliant.
The best set though has to be Paddy Canny's/Commodore/Glorious Farewell to Milltown, & the lovely Princess Royal & Imelda Roland's on the Bb box. Which are the tunes I'm learning right now (bringing it back madly to the thread).
Question though - the links to the sheet music for Burke's and Paddy Canny's Toast from the Fonnchaoi listing here bear no relation to the tunes on the CD. I suppose they are to tunes with the same name??
# Posted on August 14th 2005 by S1obhan
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly on my Concertina.
Brad
# Posted on August 15th 2005 by Ani Trec-Noc
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Monaghan Jig
# Posted on August 15th 2005 by showaddydadito
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I'm trying to get the 4th part of the monaghan into my head, as I've only every played 3 parts
# Posted on August 15th 2005 by RichardB
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John Burke's is in the database, Siobhan -- http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/315 -- wow, that was the 315th tune? It was transcribed directly off the recording. I did that as an exercise -- my teacher gave us all a different recording and asked us to learn every tune on it and teach it to everyone else in the class. I didn't make it all the way through Fonnchaoi, but had a grand time learning the ones I did.
I quite like these "what tune" threads -- they remind me of tunes I'll have forgotten about, and give me inspiration to discover some new ones.
# Posted on August 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
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I learnt a very cool tune today from Fianna's first album, but I have no idea of the title of it. It could be one of the funky trad tunes, or it could be one of Jani's own tunes. I've tried an advanced search here but didn't get any results. I'll have to find out what it is - it's seriously cool! Does anyone have that first album that could give me the track listings?
# Posted on August 15th 2005 by tbag
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HI Zina, you're right; I can't remember how I clicked through to the other Burke's (it was the one that starts BEEDE-- on the Lunasa album). Still haven't cracked navigation for teh site.
Thank's for the transcription - I'd never noticed the alternate endings - actually I must have because I used to glare at my session partner for playing it different to me! Ooops! Serves me right for being judgmental & getting it wrong.
# Posted on August 16th 2005 by S1obhan
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The Gas of Beer and the Punter's Hearse
Nah, only joking. I'm practising My Home From Afar and Conlagh's Big Day.
# Posted on August 16th 2005 by Conán McDonnell