Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on October 7th 2006 by patrick cavanagh.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
Also known as Con McGinley's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Bray Shore
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
cA|GEcA GEEF|GEcA G4|GEcA GAcd|edcA d2 cA|
GEcA GEEF|GEcA G4|GEcA GAcd|edcA d2||
cA|cdef g2ge|a2af g2ge|cdef g2ge|agec d2 cA|
cdef g/g/g ge|a/a/a af g/g/g ge|cdef g/g/g ge|agec d2||
Bray Shore
I have this from the Darley & McCall collection where it's unnamed. The (in)famous Zouki has it as Bray Shore but I've no idea where that name comes from. If anyone has any more info on this tune I'd be happy to hear it. It's kind of a silly little reel, but I like it. I often play it before going into Bunker Hill.
# Posted on October 7th 2006 by patrick cavanagh
I think I heard this tune played by Altan on radio a couple of years ago. Not sure on which album it was originally recorded.
Here's a related to tune called "Jessie over the Bridge" or "Over the Bridge to Bessie": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3968
# Posted on October 8th 2006 by slainte
This can be Con McGinley's on "Blackwater". I don't have the album, so can't tell if it's correct.
# Posted on October 8th 2006 by slainte
Triplicated!
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1643
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4562
# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by slainte
Triple threat!
*sigh*
Not just duped, but tripled... oh well. I can't beleive it's on Cathal McConnell's album and I never recognised it. I'll have to go back and listen to it again when I get home. Well, it's a nice little reel anyhow and now perhaps its three times as likely to get found and played. Nice catch, Slawncha.
# Posted on June 12th 2007 by patrick cavanagh
Bray Shore
An authentically older (early 19th century) version of this tune is Tune 894 in the Petrie Collection where it is has no name but is noted as coming from Munster.
It was given to Petrie by a Mr Joyce who had bizarrely notated it in G (with an F# instead of Fnat in the version here). Petrie evidently didn't like it and made a note in pencil "not to be used, too Scotch". Played with an F# it does indeed sound weird, but not, I would have thought, particularly Scottish. Perhaps the F# gave an impression of the Scottish pipes to Petrie's ear. My reading of the situation is that the F# in the key signature was probably nothing more than a transcription error in Joyce's manuscript.
Anyway, here is the ABC of this old version:
GEcA GECE | GEcA G2z2 | GEcA GAcd | edcA d2cA :|
cdef gage | gage f2ed | cdef gage | agec d2cA :||
# Posted on August 28th 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Bray Shore
I've seen a "P J Joyce" (deceased) mentioned in the Preface to the Roche Collection (1909) as being a contributor. I wonder if he could be the same "Joyce" who was a frequent contributor to the Petrie Collection.
# Posted on August 31st 2009 by Trevor Jennings