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Peggy's

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 29th 2004 by slainte.

This tune has been added to 33 tunebooks.

Also known as Cape Breton Jig #2, Peggy MacDougall's, Rolls, The Rolls.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

30 Years A-Greying - Disc 1 by The Dubliners
Atlantic Fiddles by Various Artists
Mike MacDougall's Tape For Father Hector by Mike MacDougall
The Lonesome Touch by Martin Hayes
The Moneymusk by Hammy Hamilton

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Peggy's Jig aka. Cape Breton Jig #2

I learned this lovely little jig off Hammy Hamilton's solo album. I thought it's already on this site, but it wasn't.

It's known as simply Cape Breton jig through "Music at Matt Molloy's," but Hammy Hamilton informs us that it's a recent composition by Cape Breton fiddler Mike MacDougall. I think he is the one who wrote Andy de Jerlis and Ingonish.

I really love this version of the tune though it may not be the standard one. Simpler, the better. If you play this tune regularly in the session, please post your version in this comment space.

And, if you know any other Mike MacDougall's composition which isn't on this site yet, please post it. All of his tunes I know are very lovely tunes, and some of them are very flute-friendly unlike other fiddlers' compositions.

# Posted on May 29th 2004 by slainte

I think I'm really in love with this tune. If you are looking for a rather uncommon but nice tune, this is the one. Try this set: Tobbin's Favourite/ Peggy's jig/ Willie Coleman's

# Posted on June 1st 2004 by slainte

"Mike MacDougall's Tape for Father Hector"

Highly recommended and available from Paul Cranford and co.:

http://www.cranfordpub.com/

There was a recent 'discussion' asking about our 'heros'. Mike is one of mine... I'll add a transcription for this tune later, and maybe try to convey something of the soul and spirit of the man...

# Posted on September 11th 2004 by ceolachan

Peggy's Jig - composed for and named after Peggy MacDougall

|:c|
BdB GBd|cec E2 G|FAF DFA|GBG D2 c|
BdB GBd|cec E2 G|FED AFD|G3 G2:|
|:/B/c|
ded dBd|gbg d2 g|faf A2 B|cdc B2 d|
ded dBd|gbg d2 g|1 fed cAF|G3 G2:|
2 fed afd|g3 g2||

# Posted on September 11th 2004 by ceolachan

Peggy's Jig

Cheers for another version of the tune. I think Hammy Hamilton's version is interestingly different from the original. By the way, who is Peggy? Mike's doughter or wife?

# Posted on September 11th 2004 by slainte

Wife!

# Posted on September 11th 2004 by ceolachan

- at least that's what remains in my rocky memory. I'll add a bit of history sometime in the near future, something about the man. One of the recent discussions was asking if we had any heroes, well, Mike is definitely one of mine...

# Posted on September 11th 2004 by ceolachan

Mike MacDougall from other sides ~

Mike MacDougall's Jig
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4684

Mike MacDougall's Jig
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4688

Memories of Father Angus MacDonnell - march
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1796

Mary Ann MacDougall's March
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/5036

# Posted on October 3rd 2005 by ceolachan

Father Eugene's Welcome To Cape North - march
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/5047

# Posted on October 6th 2005 by ceolachan

"Peggy's Jig" / Bobby McLeod's ~ with a few differences

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on September 26th 2005 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5007

# Posted on March 29th 2006 by ceolachan

Mike MacDougall 1928 - 1981

Ingonish Beach, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

The following excerpts are from this valued and recommended book:

"The Cape Breton Fiddler" ~ Allister MacGillivray
College of Cape Breton Press, Sydney, 1981
ISBN 0-920336-12-4

"Mike's father, Dan Rory, and his grandfather, Rory, were accomplished on both pipes and violin. ~ (starting at 8 years of age) By age sixteen Mike was entertaining at dances and concerts in Cape North, Dingwall and Ingonish." (In the forties, with his brother Tim, the pair played regularly for dances at St. Peters Parish Hall in Ingonish Beach.)

"Mike developes an interesting way of holding the violin, keeping the instrument tucked in close to him. This style was derived from early involvement at 'kitchen rackets'. At such affairs there wasn't much space for fiddlers once the dancers got going, so the musicians would huddle close together, often having todefend themselves with solid shoves when flying bodies came dangerously near. Whatever the conditions, Mike's music, pipe-flavoured and foot tapping, remained consistently good and thankfully abundant."

Note: 'pipping' on Cape Breton island was for dancers and unlike anything I have heard elsewhere, it made you want to dance. It was not verbose with ornamentation and twiddles as for competitions... It was magic, as was Mike's playing... For more, and worth the chase, you'll have to get the book... Mike remains one of my favourite fiddlers, amongst several from the Canadian Maritimes that have never produced a commercial recording, though Paul Cranford, bless his soul and bow, still sells the one tape Mike made, very worth having in your collection...

# Posted on March 29th 2006 by ceolachan

"Peggy's Jig" ~ for a certain friend, some other few ways

|: c |
BdB GBd | cec E3 | FAF DFA | GBG D3 |
B/c/dB GBd | cec E2 G | FED AFD | G3- G2 :|
|: B/c/ |
ded dBd | gbg d2 g | faf A3 | c>dc B2 c |
ded dB/c/d | gbg d2 g |1 fed cAF | G3 G2 :|
2 fed afd | g3- g2 ||

B-part, measures 1 & 5 can also be played:

~ | dB/c/d dB/c/d | ~ and of course there are other choices elsewhere here. This is another great tune for the developing wind instrument player... ;-)

# Posted on January 13th 2007 by ceolachan

i pLAY THIS VERSION

BdB GBd|cBc E2 G|~F3 DFA|GBe d2c|
BdB GBd|cBc E2 G|~F3 DFA|AGF G2:||
ded def|gbg d2 g|fed ABd|cBc A2c|
ded def|gbg d2 g|fed cAF|AGF G2:||

FOLLOWED BY CHARLIE HUNTERS AND THE CATS MEAOW.

# Posted on May 8th 2007 by saxwhistle

The Rolls Jig

Got this down in Clare - obviously a variant of Peggy's

# Posted on November 4th 2008 by the wounded hussar

I've just tried this tune out with "Miners of Wicklow" purely because the latter just happened to be in front of me. At a moderate but highly danceable pace they go so well together and the transition from one tune to the other, in either direction, is so easy and smooth.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6497

# Posted on November 22nd 2008 by hetty