Imelda Roland's

reel

Key signature: Edorian

Submitted on March 30th 2004 by Phantom Button.

This tune has been added to 47 tunebooks.

Also known as Imelda Rowland's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Celebration Of 50 Years by The Tulla Ceili Band
• Accordion Music From The Soul by Finbarr Dwyer
• An Tris Is A Rian by Claire Keville, John Weir And Eithne Ni Dhonaile
• Are Here Again by Trad Lads
• At Home by Rosie Shipley And Matt Mulqueen
• Boxed by Anders Trabjerg
• Classic Ceili Bands by Various Artists
• Echoes Of Erin by The Tulla Ceili Band
• Fonnchaoi by Verena Commins And Julie Langan
• Handprints by Donna Long
• In Full Flight by Gavin Whelan
• Isn't Anyone Going To Stop Them? by The Magic Square
• Memories Of Galway by Seamus Walshe
• The Leg Of The Duck by Joe Burke, Michael Cooney And Noreen Donoghue
• The Schoolmaster's House by Mike McHale
• Track Across The Deep by London Lasses And Pete Quinn
• Traditional Music Of Ireland On Button Accordion by Seamus Walshe
• Warming Up by Martin Mulhaire, Séamus Connolly And Jack Coen

X: 1
T: Imelda Roland's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
B2 GA BGdB |AD D/D/D AD FD |{A}GFEF G/G/GGA|BAB/c/d egfe |!
d/e/d ce dBAG |FD AD BDAD |{A}GFEF G/G/GGA |B/c/d A=c BE E2 :|!
e/e/e ed efga |be e/e/e bege |d/d/d dc defg |add/d/d adfd |!
e/e/e ef edBc |d/d/d dB AFDF |{A}GFEF G/G/GGA |B/c/d A=c BE E2:|!

Imelda Roland's

I'm not sure where I got this setting, but I constructed the abcs to play Jeremy's little midi-piano with some pizzaz.

# Posted on March 30th 2004 by Phantom Button

Imelda Roland's

PB - I knew this tune from the Verena Commins & Julie Langan recording and have been meaning to learn it years. I suddenly suddenly noticed it getting played at some sessions recently, and decided to buckly down and get it; thanks for the transcription!

# Posted on February 17th 2007 by Keith Dubinsky

Another version

here's how i've been playing it - an amalgamation of the verena commins and magic square version

X: 1
T: Imelda Roland's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Z: S.H.
R: reel
K: Edor
B2 GA BGdB |AD (3FED AD (3FED |GFEF ~G3 A|BABd egfe |
d2 ce dBAG |(3FED AD BDAD |G2 EF GFGA |(3Bcd A=c BE E2 :|
e2 ed efga |be (3gfe bege |d2 dc defg |ad(3fed adfd |
e2 ef edBc |dcdB AFDF |GFEF ~G3 A |B2 A=c BE E2:|

# Posted on April 3rd 2008 by airport

Raymond Roland's sister

Some info here about mostly Raymond, just scroll down to the section on RR:
http://www.copperplatedistribution.com/incd601.html

# Posted on April 22nd 2008 by Nick Splease

Imelda Roland's

E. Galway concertina player Claire Keville writes: "[Imelda Roland's] was written by Imelda Roland of the well-known east Galway family. Her daughter Yvonne informed Claire, that Imelda lilted this tune while boiling potatoes for pigs and sometime later it was popularised by Joe Cooley and Raymond Roland."

from the notes of "An Tri is a Rian" by Claire Keville, John Weir and Eithne Ni Dhonaile.

# Posted on September 30th 2008 by slainte

Imelda Roland's

I got this tune in the 70s from a set on the album "King Gooden" by Vin Garbutt, Teesside singer and player of various instruments - he played this one on whistle.

The set was spliced together in the studio (I assume), I can't see how it could have been done live: he began with I'm Waiting For You on a D or Eb whistle, went without a break into Imelda Rowland's on a C whistle, and finished with The Doon in D or Eb again.

It's a great tune which I haven't heard played much in sessions.

# Posted on September 30th 2008 by nicholas

also on the Tulla Ceili band's 50th anniversary CD, nice and steady version (before Cregg's Pipes).

# Posted on October 3rd 2009 by WhistlinLeeds