The Sligo

reel

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on August 4th 2009 by JosephC.

This tune has been added to 30 tunebooks.

Also known as Sligo.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Letter Home by Athena Tergis
• Bad Turns And Horse-Shoe Bends by Harry Bradley
• Celtic Ceili by Various Artists
• Celtic Winds (Irish Music In America) by Various Artists
• Edel Fox And Ronan O'Flaherty by Edel Fox And Ronan O'Flaherty
• Flatfish by Flook
• Letting Go... by Katherine Irwin Thomas
• Memories From The Holla by Peter Carberry, Angelina Carberry And John Blake
• Shadows On Stone by Matt Molloy
• Sligo Fiddle (Disk 1) by John Vesey
• The Joys Of Life by Shaskeen
• When The Party's Over by Brian Finnegan

X: 1
T: Sligo, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
|:BEED EFGB-|BEED EFGE|FGFE DBEF-|FGFE DBBA|
B2ED EFGB-|BEED EFGE|FGFE DBBE|1FGFE D2BA:|2FGFE D3E||
|:EFGA Bdef|g2ed efg2|fgad fgab-|ba2g-gfeB|
EFGA Bdef|g2ed efg2|fgad fgab-|ba2g-gfeB:|

Flook - Flatfish

This tune comes from Flook's "Flatfish" album. The tune was written by Brian Finnegan, or perhaps Sarah Allen.

The scales in the second part makes it seem more like one of Sarah's tunes to me, but all in all, it sounds more like one of Brian's... I don't have the liner notes, so I've not a clue.

On "Flatfish", the set is played on an Ab whistle, putting this tune in Bbminor. Egad.

# Posted on August 4th 2009 by JosephC

Correction, played on a bamboo Olwell Ab flute. Tiny thing...

# Posted on September 20th 2009 by JosephC

And I correct myself on the composer- Eamon McElholm of Solas wrote this tune.

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by JosephC

Cool variation Brian does on the third and fourth bars-
FGFE AGFB|AGde- eBBA|

Also, every now and then, substitute the B-B for a d..

# Posted on March 10th 2010 by JosephC