Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 7th 2004 by Bannerman.
This tune has been added to 45 tunebooks.
Also known as Auchadon House, Auchdon House, Auchdon House March, Haughton House, Joe Ryan, Joe Ryan's, Joe Ryan's Barn Dance, The Kilnamona.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Joe Ryan's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|:D2|G2 BG D2 ED|B,CDB, G,2 AB|c2 B2 A2 G2|E4 EcBA|
G2 BG D2 ED|B,CDB, G,2 AB|cBce d2 F2|G4 z2 :|
d2|g2 f2 e2 d2|e2 d2 B2 zB|c2 B2 A2 G2|E4 EcBA|
[1 G2 BG D2 ED|B,CDB, G,2 AB|cBce d2 F2|G4 z2 :|
[2 GFGA G2 B,C|DCB,A, G,2 AB|cBce d2 F2|G4 z2 ||
This is a temporary title (Anything is better than "Gan Ainm" !) as the tune first surfaced at our Saturday night fireside (Cois Tine) session a few weeks ago. The player who introduced the tune thought that it was called the Kilnamona Barn Dance but when trying to submit this initially the site told me the name already exists (I checked but it's a different tune) - Jeremy's system works well! Hopefully someone may recognise the tune so that we can get a more authentic name for it.
# Posted on January 7th 2004 by Bannerman
i know it under the title Joe Ryan's barn dance.It is often played in A. There is a fine version on Cherish the Ladies "New day Dawning"
# Posted on January 7th 2004 by paul95
Thanks Paul (this makes sense as I have heard this played by Joe Ryan, although more as a march than a barn dance - just a question of tempo). I've updated the name accordingly.
# Posted on January 7th 2004 by Bannerman
This sounds really great on a CGDa banjo or Mandola. It seems to beg to be played slowly. A truly authentic "tune" no matter what the name is.
# Posted on January 7th 2004 by 2situla
I'm hearing it in my mind's ear with the last note of the first, fifth and thirteenth full measures being C, not D. I'm familiar with it from Joe Ryan's recording and perhaps elsewhere. I'll have to listen to know if I'm right about those Cs.
# Posted on January 9th 2004 by GaryAMartin
Yes. Joe Ryan is definitely playing Cs instead of Ds as I said above. On his CD it's called Auchdon House and listed as a march.
# Posted on January 9th 2004 by GaryAMartin
A websearch on "Auchdon House" indicates that it's a Shetland tune commonly used for weddings, particularly on the island of Unst. Joe Ryan picked it up from a musician in Dublin who had worked in Scotland.
# Posted on January 9th 2004 by GaryAMartin
C's? I play those measures as: | G2 BG d2 GD |, which is how Cherish the Ladies do it.
# Posted on January 9th 2004 by Miss Lonelyhearts
As an accordian player, I love this tune and fell in love with it after hearing Mary Rafferty of Cherish the Ladies playing it. They do a great set with this tune. Anyone know the rest of the pieces in it? My favorite besides this tune in that set is the flute piece that Madden plays. I think the flutist in my band would love to learn that piece. Any ideas? Cheers.
# Posted on January 19th 2004 by hardcoreharpist
The Boys of the Lough recorded this back in the 1970s
# Posted on March 27th 2004 by blarneystar
Joe Ryans
Gan ainm is a great name and expresses the real spirit of the music.
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by cruiser
Joe Ryan's (barndance) = Haughton House (march)
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2882
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by gian marco
Haughton House
I believe it's a Shetland Wedding march according to the notes on Joe's album.
# Posted on November 3rd 2004 by Patkiwi
"Haughton House" ~ from Nigel:
"This was known for a wee while as "Auchadon / Auchdon House" (probably misheard), and thought of as from Shetland. I think it's plain Scottish, and it was composed by a James Mitchell. It was published as a single sheet with variations by james Scott Skinner."
# Posted on December 19th 2005 by nigelg
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by ceolachan
Claire Kevilles Joe Ryan's
Hello,
Actually Claire isn't playing this tune, she's playing another tune that Joe recorded on the same CD, Paddy O'Brien's. She shouldn't be linked to this page in the Details section, FWIW.
# Posted on November 18th 2009 by pmitchel