Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on March 19th 2004 by errik.
This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.
Also known as Flowing Tide, Higgins Best, Seventh Regiment.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Picnic, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
|:A,2A,C EA,CE|AEEA c2BA|FAEA ceaf|ecBA FAEC|
A,2A,C EA,CE|AEEA c2BA|FAEA cefe|ceBe A2z2:|
|:A2Ac BAFA|agaf ecBA|dfce BeAc|dBcA BAFA|
EA,CE AEEA|dBcA BAFA|EAcf ecBA|EAGB A4:|
I heard this one on Natalie MacMaster's "Live" CD 1, but there was an error when that recording was submitted to this site and it isn't being listed... Good tune.
# Posted on March 19th 2004 by errik
This sounds like a relative of the hornpipe, The Flowing Tide
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2580
# Posted on March 20th 2004 by OrganicPeatCreature
Conn Higgins
This tune is printed at least twice in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, as "The Picnic" and, in A, as "Seventh Regiment," the latter attributed to one Conn Higgins. O'Neill borrowed it for his collection as "Higgins' Best," as he already had another Higgins' Hornpipe. Now better known in a different setting in G as "The Flowing Tide."
# Posted on March 23rd 2004 by blarneystar
There is a lovely version of this tune recorded on Jamie Laval's first album "Shades of Green", following "Farewell to Loch Katrine".
I had a devil of a time finding out what this fantastic tune was called!
# Posted on March 30th 2008 by treecipitation
Higher Octave and Shift to D
As printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection/Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes, the first part is an octave higher. That calls for a shift to higher position on the fiddle, so some NY fiddlers (including Paddy Reynolds and Andy McGann) shifted the tune to D.
# Posted on March 25th 2009 by blarneystar
Correction, and Composer credit
Scratch that last comment - McGann and Reynolds played it in A as it appears here. My memory was faulty. The original version of "The Picnic" was composed by a George Saunders, who published it in his "New and Scientific Self-Instructing School for the Violin. . . Intended for Beginners, Amateurs, Business Players, and Teachers. In Three Parts, Complete in One," published in Boston, Providence and Buffalo in 1847. Elias Howe borrowed it from that book, and also inlcuded the more difficult "7th Regiment" version in "Ryan's Mammoth Collection." O'Neill borrowed the "7th Regiment" for his 1903 "Music of Ireland."
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# Posted on August 31st 2009 by blarneystar