One of my favorite tunes is Lucy Campbell. It is rarely played in sessions around here. When it is, people say "great tune, what is it?" But I still don't hear it as much as I would like. What are some tunes that you don't hear as often as you would like?
Hi John, Lucy Campell has been a standard at our session for decades. Patricia Kennelly would play it and followed by Toss the Feathers (in Edor.) She sounded so great that we had a hard time imagining anything different. Every area has great standards like that but are uncommon in other places. There are no doubt great tunes you guys play up there that never see the light of day down here. Maybe we'll meet up and explore what they might be some day.
I tried Crib of Perches in London and everyone said that it wasn't played much there, but it's often played in Denver, and I think Boston as well -- and didn't I hear it at your session, Jack? Also, I know it's on the Gort recordings, so I know it's played in Ireland.
Wasn't Lucy Campbell THE tune a couple of years or so back at Willy Week?
Stockton's Wing did a great version of it many years back on an album where they played a slow reel (I think it was called Joe Bane's - BcBA GEDE|G2BG dGBG ... a close relation of the Old Torn Petticoat!) first. Lucy Campbell has recently become a favourite at our Monkstown session in a set where it's preceded by Dick Sherlock's and the Morning Star. John, you wouldn't by any chance be the lilter recently featured on Comhaltaslive - if you were, congratulations on some mighty stuff!!
I play that Stockton's Wing set for fun every once in awhile, but play Lucy on its own more often. I love those two tunes. I get that same reaction to Lucy, but not many have learned it over the years. How about Liffey Banks? That's a great tune that a few people know, but I am the only one who will start it.
Zina, with all due respect -- you are mistaken. We did indeed play the Crib of Perches together and found that our B parts weren't in agreement. You're playing the version posted on this site and I'm playing the Gort version. One of my favorite tunes. It would qualify as a tune that isn't played enough around here. The only people I know who have it besides myself are Kevin B. and Vinnie Cronin.
grogans hornpipe in C not to be confused with brogans played by a 16 year old mike goldrick as he was known then allways gets people curious but it really is a cracker it can be played just as easy in F on instruments tuned GDAE by starting on the D string as opposed to the A string I suppose thats why it sticks out a little bit too
Hi Bannerman. I was not the lilter you heard (unless Comhaltaslive had a live feed from my car, which is the only place I have the nerve to lilt). Wish I had heard it, though.
I sometime's play The Poll Halfpenny and Miss Galvin's hornpipe, which I never heard anyone play round here, and I rarely find anyone who can play along with me - but there'll be a session somewhere where it's the theme tune.
Its an unfortunate fact that such a thread as this inevitably risks ending up with one person saying "Tune A" and then another saying "But WE play that 3 times a night", then this is repeated with tunes B to Z.
Just a coincidence with the name then John as Willie Fogarty isn't quite that "high tech" yet. The other John is really exceptional (He's based somewhere down in West Limerick). He's one of those people that will win you over to a particular type of traditional expression in the same way that I couldn't tolerate harmonica playing until I heard Noel Battle from Westmeath on the instrument.
The tunes you don't hear very often
The tunes you don't hear very often
One of my favorite tunes is Lucy Campbell. It is rarely played in sessions around here. When it is, people say "great tune, what is it?" But I still don't hear it as much as I would like. What are some tunes that you don't hear as often as you would like?
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by tacoman
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
Hi John, Lucy Campell has been a standard at our session for decades. Patricia Kennelly would play it and followed by Toss the Feathers (in Edor.) She sounded so great that we had a hard time imagining anything different. Every area has great standards like that but are uncommon in other places. There are no doubt great tunes you guys play up there that never see the light of day down here. Maybe we'll meet up and explore what they might be some day.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by Phantom Button
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
I tried Crib of Perches in London and everyone said that it wasn't played much there, but it's often played in Denver, and I think Boston as well -- and didn't I hear it at your session, Jack? Also, I know it's on the Gort recordings, so I know it's played in Ireland.
Wasn't Lucy Campbell THE tune a couple of years or so back at Willy Week?
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
Stockton's Wing did a great version of it many years back on an album where they played a slow reel (I think it was called Joe Bane's - BcBA GEDE|G2BG dGBG ... a close relation of the Old Torn Petticoat!) first. Lucy Campbell has recently become a favourite at our Monkstown session in a set where it's preceded by Dick Sherlock's and the Morning Star. John, you wouldn't by any chance be the lilter recently featured on Comhaltaslive - if you were, congratulations on some mighty stuff!!
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by Bannerman
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
I play that Stockton's Wing set for fun every once in awhile, but play Lucy on its own more often. I love those two tunes. I get that same reaction to Lucy, but not many have learned it over the years. How about Liffey Banks? That's a great tune that a few people know, but I am the only one who will start it.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by Jode
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
Zina, with all due respect -- you are mistaken. We did indeed play the Crib of Perches together and found that our B parts weren't in agreement. You're playing the version posted on this site and I'm playing the Gort version. One of my favorite tunes. It would qualify as a tune that isn't played enough around here. The only people I know who have it besides myself are Kevin B. and Vinnie Cronin.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by Phantom Button
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
grogans hornpipe in C not to be confused with brogans played by a 16 year old mike goldrick as he was known then allways gets people curious but it really is a cracker it can be played just as easy in F on instruments tuned GDAE by starting on the D string as opposed to the A string I suppose thats why it sticks out a little bit too
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# Posted on December 6th 2005 by Ripthecalico
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
Hi Bannerman. I was not the lilter you heard (unless Comhaltaslive had a live feed from my car, which is the only place I have the nerve to lilt). Wish I had heard it, though.
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by tacoman
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
I sometime's play The Poll Halfpenny and Miss Galvin's hornpipe, which I never heard anyone play round here, and I rarely find anyone who can play along with me - but there'll be a session somewhere where it's the theme tune.
Its an unfortunate fact that such a thread as this inevitably risks ending up with one person saying "Tune A" and then another saying "But WE play that 3 times a night", then this is repeated with tunes B to Z.
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: The tunes you don't hear very often
Just a coincidence with the name then John as Willie Fogarty isn't quite that "high tech" yet. The other John is really exceptional (He's based somewhere down in West Limerick). He's one of those people that will win you over to a particular type of traditional expression in the same way that I couldn't tolerate harmonica playing until I heard Noel Battle from Westmeath on the instrument.
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by Bannerman