Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 1st 2007 by frozenstiff.
This tune has been added to 3 tunebooks.
Also known as Tony Griffin's.
X: 1
T: Tony's Trek
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
DEF ABA|AFE D3|DEF ABc|B3 A3|
DEF ABA|AFE D2E|FAF EFE|E3 D3:|
DFA def|edB AFE|DFA def|edB d3|
DFA def|afd ecA|B2B AFA|Bdd d3:|
Tony's Trek
Tony Griffin is a young Irishman, an All-Star hurler from County Clare. In 2005, he lost his father to cancer. Tony put his hurling career on hold to raise funds for cancer research. He is cycling across Canada and Ireland and his goal is to raise one million euros. He started in Vancouver on May 2 and is at present cycling in the region of Thunder Bay, Ontario. I co-ordinated the welcome reception for him here in Saskatoon, and I rode out to meet him on his arrival and also on his departure. I composed this jig to commemorate his epic journey. The name of the jig could be taken two ways. A trek is a long journey, and Tony and his support team ride Treks, courtesy of Trek Cycles and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. You can find the details of Tony's ride (The Ride for the Cure) at tonygriffinfoundation.com (diary, events, photos, videos of TG hurling, etc., and yes my picture is in there too, the guy almost exactly one foot shorter than TG).
# Posted on June 1st 2007 by frozenstiff
Ride for the Cure web page
Maybe someone smarter than I could activate the link to the web page. Thanks. Mairtin
# Posted on June 1st 2007 by frozenstiff
Tony's Webpage is
http://tonygriffinfoundation.com
Thanks, Laitch
Mairtin
# Posted on June 1st 2007 by frozenstiff
On the page, it looks like it's going uphill and down hill, like the trecking cyclist?
It has the soothing qualities of a lullaby...
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by birlibirdie
I don't think that was intentional, birlibirdie. No hills around here for about 500 miles. However, lullaby tempo mimics my fiddle playing. Not by choice.
I did compose one reel in which I tried to marry the rhythm of the reel to the pedalling of the bike in a race called, The Devil Take the Hindmost (name of the race, not the reel).
Mairtin
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by frozenstiff