Finbar Dwyer's Favorite

jig

Key signature: Dmixolydian

Submitted on November 27th 2002 by Will CPT.

This tune has been added to 26 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
• In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
• 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

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||

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 Will CPT

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 Will CPT

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 Will CPT

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 PaddyCmusic