The Fisherman's Island

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on June 30th 2001 by ragaman.

This tune has been added to 111 tunebooks.

Also known as Ed Reavy's, Ed Reavy's Favourite, Flight Of The Termite, Morning Sunrise, Reavy's No. 9, Reavy's No.9, Reevey's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Tribute To Andy McGann by Joe Burke, Brian Conway And Felix Dolan
• An Fhidil by Various Artists
• Call Of The Wild by Wild Asparagus
• Cathal Hayden by Cathal Hayden
• Celtic Dances by Various Artists
• Chasing The Dawn by Jenny Crook And Henry Sears
• Dance Time In Ireland by Larry McKee And The Shandonairs
• Déanta by Déanta
• Familiar Footsteps by Dezi Donnelly
• From The Chest by Kevin O'Connor
• House To House by Randal Bays And Roger Landes
• Humours Of Lissadell by Seamus And Manus McGuire
• Irish Traditional Music by Jim McKillop
• Macalla 2 by Macalla
• Noel Hill And Tony Linnane by Noel Hill And Tony Linnane
• Over The Moor To Maggie by Oisin
• Stranger At The Gate by Paddy O'Brien
• The Home I Left Behind by CCE Tour 1974
• The Music Of Ed Reavy by Various Artists
• The Plain Of Jars by Brian Kelly
• Up She Flew by Dana Lyn
• Waiting For A Call by Tommy Peoples
• Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 1 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Fisherman's Island, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
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fd ~d2 edcA | BcdB AGFD | EFGA (3Bcd ed |1 cAGE FDCE :|2 cAGE D2 z2 ||
|: fd ~d2 AF ~F2 | DFAd fdef | ge~e2 bece | dfed cAGE |
DF~F2 AddA | B2gf edcB | Adfa gbed |1 cAGE D2 z2 :|2 cAGE FDCE ||

The Fisherman's Island

An Ed Reavy tune, it is characteristically full of twists and turns, but with a nice flow to it.

# Posted on June 30th 2001 by ragaman

Nice together with Golden Keyboard

I've been on the lookout for this the last couple of months.

A co-sessioneer plays this tune in front of Golden Keyboard.I think they make a great set.

He used to refer to it as "Reavy's" and only last week I got to know the above name of it.

There exists a great "ancient" LP recording with these two tunes together.

Halldor
Oslo, Norway

# Posted on July 1st 2001 by MrGanAinm

Ancient LP

The 'great ancient LP' Halldor mentions is Noel Hill and Tony Linnane,
by Noel Hill and Tony Linnane

# Posted on November 5th 2001 by Henk Bos

Tune recorded.....

... as well by Déanta (Track 1 on the Sampler "Playing with Fire / Various Artists"). They named it "Ed Reavy´s".

# Posted on June 3rd 2002 by crannog

Seriously?

Flight of the Termite??
Where did that come from? Are you sure somebody didn't just make crappy liner notes that crossed this tune with the next one in the set or something, because - in my oh-so-unknowledgeable opinion - that's just crazy talk.
I mean, yes, I've heard it called "Fisherman's Island" and "Fisherman's Harvest" and there's not much similarity between an island and a harvest, but there's even less between a Fisherman and a Termite. Well, okay, no need to get existential...

Maybe, after a previously unknown and thoroughly hypothetical event in which a colony of bugs had eaten his home, Ed Reavy just got blistering drunk in mourning, and decided to rename this tune. Unlikely.

# Posted on May 2nd 2005 by concertinette

Tune also recorded....

By Tommy Peoples on "The Iron Man" album. A wonderful version.

# Posted on June 23rd 2005 by Relic

What a great tune!

Tommy People's version on "The Iron Man" is nice indeed.

# Posted on January 13th 2007 by crazy_fingerz

Flight of the Termite

In a comment above, Concertinette seems to be rather bugged (pardon the pun) that somebody added "Flight of the Termite" to the list of alternative titles for this tune. Let me explain. On their first album, Deanta called the entire first set "Flight of the Termite," but in their liner notes they call this tune "Ed Reavy's." Why they chose to call the set "Flight of the Termite" I don't know, but at least they did give credit to Ed Reavy for writing this great tune.

# Posted on March 13th 2007 by smw

Another Reavy tune

I play this tune followed by Hunter's House, another great Reavy composition.

# Posted on June 24th 2007 by awildman