Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 23rd 2002 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 108 tunebooks.
Also known as Bedican's, Conamara Stockings, Connemara Stocking, The Connemara Stocking, The Connemara Stockings, The Galway, Larry Bedican's, Larry Redican's, The North West, Redican's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Connemara Stockings
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
g2fg edBA|GABG AGED|GABd eaag|1 fdef gbaf:|2 fdef gdef||
gbef gbe2|fade fad2|gbef gfed|Bded Bded|
ebba b2ag|faab ~a3f|gbag fagf|edef gdef||
This is the Tune that is played under the names Redican's & The Galway Reel around my way. To avoid more confusion i listed under the name that it shows up as in Bulmer & Sharpley's. Will are you sure you didn't mean to post this tune?
~b.
# Posted on March 23rd 2002 by Mad Baloney
Hey Brad,
This is the tune in O'Neill's (I like your setting better). I've never gotten this one solidly into my bag of tunes because I'd rather play Ships Are Sailing (essentially the same B Part).
I've seen a slew of tunes that go by "The Galway Reel," and almost as many under Redican's. Maybe we could post them all. The "Galway Reel" I posted earlier is one of the more unusual tunes by that name, which is why I gave it.
# Posted on March 23rd 2002 by Will Harmon
Connemara Stockings
This is the first reel in the Kilfenora Reel set which is very popular in Clare down the years; the set was played by the great Kilfenora Ceili Band of the fifties (they took 3 successive All-Ireland titles in 1954, 1955 & 1956) and is also a favourite with the pesent Kilfenora Band who took the All-Ireland title in 1993, 1994 and 1995.
# Posted on March 31st 2002 by Bannerman
Similar Tune
A vaiation of this called The Cunnamulla Stocking Jig is used in Australia for the dance the Flying Pieman.
# Posted on December 22nd 2002 by alastair wilson
to make it slightly less like Ships are Sailing in the Bpart try this variation "gfcd gfcd" instead of "fade fad2"
# Posted on March 29th 2004 by Mad Baloney
Randal Bays setting in D
Just got back from three days of workshops at the Goderich Festival, and took a class on guitar/fiddle with Randal Bays & DaÃthà Sproule. Randal played this tune down in D (DaÃthà was in DADGAD) and here’s a bit transcribed from my recordings. Some interesting twists but staying true to a lovely tune.
X:1
T: Connemara Stockings
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
S: Randal Bays, Goderich Ontario 2007
|: d2 cd BAFE | DE{FG}FD {EF}EDB,A, | DEFA {c}BAed |1 cABc dABc :|2 cABc d2 Bc |
{d}cBFB dBfB | cAEA cAec | dBFB {d}cBfB | dcAc ~B3 c |
d2 {g}fe fded | caec ABcA | ~d3 A ~c3 A | ~B3 c dAFA |]
# Posted on August 11th 2007 by fidkid
http://www.soundlantern.com/UpdatedSoundPage.do?ToId=23192
2nd tune in the set
# Posted on November 30th 2008 by Mad Baloney
An older source
Actually, this tune appears (set in the key of D) twice in the 1883 "Ryan's Mammoth Collection" under the no-longer-familiar titles 'Hobb's Favorite' and 'Boston Rattlers'. It was apparently a well-known tune back in the nineteenth century. Many of the tunes in the Ryan book were picked up by O'Neill and retitled to become the tunes as we know them today.
# Posted on April 7th 2011 by rwwt
Blackthorne reels
me and my buddy play this as the second in the blackthorne reels set on past masters of irish dance...
# Posted on July 11th 2011 by thom c
The Kilfenora Set
Gary Shannon & Musicians / Dancers in Tokyo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3lHkVXj5o
Gary comments: "An interesting night for me. Surreal - a session in Tokyo in an Irish bar with 13 Japanese musicians and 8 Japanese doing the Plain Set while Willie Week happens 6,000 miles away! I hope to go back!"
It's a great shame that I can't tell you which musician I am and which girl I fancy....
# Posted on July 18th 2011 by slainte