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Finbar Dwyer's Favorite

jig

Key signature: Dmixolydian

Submitted on November 27th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts.

This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.

Also known as Finbar Dwyer's Favourite, John Dwyer's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Rake Of Reels by John Nolan
Best Of Finbarr Dwyer by Finbarr Dwyer
Celtic Fire by John Whelan
Collection Of Jigs And Reels by Shaskeen
Damp In The Attic (I Was Flyin' It) by P.J. King, Martin Murray, Cyril O'Donoghue, And Colm Murphy
Dublin Made Me by Liam O'Connor And Seán McKeon
In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
Pride Of Erin by Under-18 All-Ireland Champions
Pure Traditional Irish Accordion Music by Finbarr Dwyer
The Green Hills Of Clare by The Crehan Family And Carl Corcoran
The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
With Eugene O'Donnell by Mick Moloney

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X: 1
T: Finbar Dwyer's Favorite
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
|FGA cAA|BAG cAG|FGA cAG|Ad^c ~d3|
|FGA cAG|Adg fef|dcA GEA|DED D2 G|
|FGA cAA|BAG cAG|FGA cAG|Ad^c ~d3|
|DED cAG|Adg fde|dcA GEA|DED D(3EFG||
|:A2 d d^cd|fag efd|dcA GFG|AdB cAG|
|Add d^cd|fag efd|dcA GEA|1 DED D3:|2 DED D2 G||

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Finbar Dwyer's Favorite

Here's a tasty little jig off Kevin Crawford's In Good Company cd, track 11. He pairs it with what he calls the Rolling Waves, a jig that I know by the
name the Humours of Trim (which is similar but not the same as the jig I know as the Rolling Waves).

This is more or less my fiddle arrangement, based more Conor Tully's playing than on Crawford's flute. Take it at a moderate jig/almost marching tempo, and hang on the notes rather than hurrying to leave them.

From the liner notes: "Finbar Dwyer's Favorite comes directly from Conor. I heard him play it in 1992 in Gort, Galway, where he and I were in an
unforgettable session with Tony Linnane, Padraig Mac Donnchadha, Terrence O'Reilly, and Frank McGann. Cheers to fiddler Theo Paige in Santa Cruz, California, for supplying me with a copy of a recording of this session. It brought back a lot of memories."

# Posted on November 27th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Very close to "Statia Donnelly".

# Posted on December 11th 2004 by LongNote

Tune confusion

On my recent trip to Ireland, whenever I played this jig -- the B part of Statia Donnelly would show up. Evidentially they both share the same A part -- beware. Statia Donnelly seems to be better known and more widespread.

Statia Donnelly: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1471

# Posted on January 1st 2005 by Phantom Button

Little different spin on this from Mike and Mary Rafferty on their cd, The Dangerous Reel.

X: 1
T: Finbar Dwyer's Favorite
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
D: The Dangerous Reel, Mike and Mary Rafferty
K: Dmix
|FGA cAA|BAG cAG|FGA cAG|Ad^c dAG|
|FGA cAG|Ade fef|dcA GEA|1 DED DAG:|2 DED DE/F/G||
A2 d d^cd|eag e2 A|dcA ~G3|AdB cAG|
|A2 d d^cd|eag e2 A|dcA GEA|1 DED DE/F/G:|2 DED DAG||

# Posted on November 24th 2005 by Miss Lonelyhearts

P.S. It's the second tune on track 19, titled Joe Burke's Jig because that's who Mike got it from.

# Posted on November 24th 2005 by Miss Lonelyhearts

From Finbar Dwyer's CD

On his album Pure Trad on Accordion, he calls this tune John Dwyer's.

# Posted on March 6th 2007 by 52Paddy

Well that answers that question... they actually DID play jigs in that session... It must just be that the person flipping on and off the tape recorder at opportune moments was just looking to pick up reels at the time :-)

# Posted on October 19th 2008 by Reverend