Upstairs In A Tent

reel

Key signature: Amixolydian

Submitted on June 12th 2001 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 133 tunebooks.

Also known as In And Out Of The Harbor, In And Out Of The Harbour, Jeannie Tied The Bonnet Tight, Jennie, Tie The Bonnet, Jenny Tie The Blanket, Jenny Tie The Bonnet, Jenny Tie Your Bonnet, Jenny Tied The Bonnet Tight, Tie The Bonnet, Tie The Bonnet Tight, Tie The Ribbons.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Few Tunes by John Skelton
• A Night At The Fair by The Two Tap Trio
• Aris by Le Cheile
• Best Of Irish Ceili Music by Various Artists
• Best Of Irish Fiddle by Florie Brown
• Celtic Reels And Jigs - The Blackberry Blossom by Various Artists
• Ceol An Clair by Various Artists
• Collection Of Jigs And Reels by Shaskeen
• Cuisle by Angela Deane
• Dancing On Silver by Tim Collins
• Dual by Dual
• Edel Fox And Ronan O'Flaherty by Edel Fox And Ronan O'Flaherty
• Faoi Bhlath by Dave Sheridan, Ciaran Somers, Nicolas Quemener
• Festival Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
• Five by Old Blind Dogs
• Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
• Gavin Whelan by Gavin Whelan
• Hand-Me-Downs by Mary Rafferty
• Inné Amarach by Teada
• Irish Traditional Music And Song by Shaskeen
• Kitty's Rambles by Finbarr Dwyer
• Legacy by Old Blind Dogs
• Memoire Celte by Broken String
• Memories From The Holla by Peter Carberry, Angelina Carberry And John Blake
• Musical Journey by Cormac Breatnach And Martin Dunlea
• Paddy In The Smoke by Various Artists
• Pìob Is Fidheall by Kenneth And Angus MacKenzie
• Playing With Fire: The Celtic Fiddle Collection by Various Artists
• Pure Traditional Irish Accordion Music by Finbarr Dwyer
• Raise The Rafters by Molly's Revenge
• Redpoint by Duncan Chisholm
• Short Stories by Grainne Murphy
• The Chieftains 2 by The Chieftains
• The Godfather by Brian Rooney
• The Humours Of Lisheen by John And Julia Clifford
• The Kinnitty Sessions by Lunasa
• The Lark In The Clear Air by Various Artists
• The Maple Leaf by Jimmy Noonan, Chris McGrath
• The Piper Calls The Tune by Joe Finn
• The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 1 by Willie Clancy
• The Sound Of Ireland CD3 by Various Artists
• The Tain by Horslips
• Threads by Battlefield Band
• Traditional Dance Music From County Clare by Ennis Ceili Band
• Wayward Son by John Doyle
• When Leaves Fall by Lauren Maccoll
• Within A Mile O' Jamestown by Mick Mulvey
• Zoe Conway by Zoe Conway
• Zoe Conway Live DVD by Zoe Conway

X: 1
T: Upstairs In A Tent
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
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Upstairs in a Tent

I first heard this tune on uillean pipes at a late-night/early-morning session in Gaithersburg, Maryland, home to the Washington DC Irish Festival. A version is given in Brendan Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hEireann, Volume 3 (tune #96), transcribed from the late great Co. Clare piper Willie Clancy. Breathnach assigns a host of other names to the tune, including In and Out the Harbor.

# Posted on June 12th 2001 by Will Harmon

This tune is part of the O'Rourke's set in the Chieftain's second album. I have also heard an interesting variation of this played by piper Kirk Lynch in Scartaglen's album. Iv'e been looking for the name of it for ages, and what a relief it is to find it!

# Posted on September 7th 2002 by dirk

It's in O'Neill's as "Tie The Bonnet".

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Dr. Dow

I first came across this tune on Finbarr Dwyer's Button accordion album. Recently, it's been adopted into our session repoitre so I'd better learn it.

# Posted on October 7th 2006 by 52Paddy

Recorded by Michael Tubridy as "In and Out the Harbour", which is how I learned it.

# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Gogsy

I know a piper who used to live in a tent in North Belfast in an old, very drafty top flat. He used to cover the canvas and fill the tent with duvets and quilts and weathered the winter sleeping and reading away like that! There was no heating in the flat but he said he wanted to keep his carbon-footprint light. I guess that's what you call 'green living'!
The tent was too small to play the pipes in, though. I hear he's moved to a gas-heated place now but complains the air's too dry for the reeds!

# Posted on March 30th 2010 by birlibirdie

I don't know whether he knows The Humours of Winter
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/146

# Posted on March 30th 2010 by birlibirdie