Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 18th 2003 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as The Castlebar Races, Up Sligo #2.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Up Sligo
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:dcB cBA|GEF G2B|dcB cBA|GBd efg|
dcB cBA|GEF G2g|bag age|dBd efg :|
gfg bge | dBd ~d3 |gfg bge|dBd efg |
gfg bge | dBd d2g |bag age |dBd efg:|
Up Sligo #2
That's what Brian Conway calls it on "First through the Gate" I know it pops up on Michael Colemans 78's but I don't know what he called it. Harry Bradley recorded a very similar tune on the opening track of "As carelessly I did stray..." he called it the "Castlebar Races". It's really simple but has enough play on the Gmaj EMin to make it juicy. On the fiddle I like to slur into the "on" beats & break the bow on the 2nd & 3rd then slur back into the onbeats with lots of lilt. Gives it that Sligo feel, after all it is "Up Sligo!"
# Posted on December 18th 2003 by Mad Baloney
Refer to "Up Sligo" already posted 2/9/2002 for more background. Vesey and Coleman didn't call this part anything; it was just the second part of Up Sligo as far as they were concerned.
# Posted on December 19th 2003 by maderinerue
These two "Up Sligo"-s are two different tunes. The one that was posted earlier is usually called "The Creel of Turf" it's in Emin.
# Posted on December 21st 2003 by Mad Baloney
Here's the link to the tune Harry Bradley recorded as "The Castlebar Races": http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1205
# Posted on September 11th 2004 by slainte
This one is also in e minor...
# Posted on December 12th 2005 by ceolachan
This variant of "The Castlebar Races" is recorded on Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington's duet album "Fortune Favours the Merry." It seems the common setting of the tune is the one posted by Dow some years ago: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1160
# Posted on December 31st 2005 by slainte