McDonagh's

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 26th 2001 by Will CPT.

This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Fig For A Kiss by Providence
• Along Blackwater's Banks by Sliabh Notes
• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Cuisle by Angela Deane
• Matt Molloy by Matt Molloy
• Rattlin' Banjos (part 2) by David McNevin
• The Humours Of Derrybeha by Pat O'Connor
• The Nervous Man by Mícheál O' Raghallaigh
• The Tie That Binds by Various Artists
• The Tie That Binds by Joe Derrane

X: 1
T: McDonagh's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A|:defd A2 (3AAA|(3Bcd ef gfec|defd A2 (3ABc||1 dBAG FDDA:|2 dBAG FDDB||
|Adfd Adfd|Acec fcec|Adfd Adfd|faag fedB|
|Adfd Adfd|Acef gfec|defg a2 (3aaf|gfeg fddA|

McDonagh's Reel

McDonagh's is a common session tune in some circles, and I'd heard it played many times over the years without knowing its name. But I was listening in at a star-studded session in the Gaithersburg (Maryland, USA) Hilton after hours (and after the day's concerts at the 1999 Washington Irish Festival), and caught the tune as played by Brian Conway, Patrck Mangan, Eliot Grasso, Tom Doorley, Cillian Vallely, and John Doyle. So there it is--the B part is infectious and can get a whole roomful of non-dancers instantly tapping their feet. Fiddlers will do well to keep as many fingers down as possible (holding the ds and fs) without inadvertently muting one note or the other. In the A Part, I hit the quarter-note A in the first measure on an up-bow so I can play the next bowed triplet down-up-down, and then slur the next triplet all on a single bow stroke.
Enjoy!

# Posted on July 26th 2001 by Will CPT

It has this west-Atlantic flavour

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by birlibirdie

Go here for a similar tune http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4588

# Posted on September 18th 2007 by Dow

Birlibirdie, what exactly do you mean by "west-Atlantic flavour"?

# Posted on September 18th 2007 by Dow