Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on October 22nd 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 461 tunebooks.
Also known as Congress, Russell's, The Sliabh Russell, Slieve Russell, The Slieve Russell.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sliabh Russell
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
|:eAA Bcd|eaf ged|edB cBA|BAG ABd|
eAA Bcd|eaf ged|edB cBA|1 BAG A3:|2 BAG ABd||
|:eaa efg|agf gfd|eaa efg|afd e3|
eaa efg|agf gfd|edB cBA|BAG ABd:|
There's a great set on the Otherworld album by Lunasa where this tune is played straight after The Roaring Barmaid (Butlers of Glen Avenue).
This jig has a great driving rhythm to it.
# Posted on October 22nd 2001 by Jeremy
I don't much like jigs (at least comparatively speaking), but I've loved this one since the first time I heard it. To my mind and ears, it's a quintessential piping jig...
zls
# Posted on November 1st 2001 by Zina Lee
Variation
Looking back at my old transcription of this tune, I heard Lunasa playing measure 4 of Part B as: |fed ~g3|. I'll have to dig out that cd again...perhaps I was listening to a variation by one of the lead players and not catching the main line....
# Posted on November 1st 2001 by Will Harmon
Re: Variation
Actually, that's how I know it too, Will. Of course, Dirk, our piper, knows it staying on the E - luckily they work more or less together. We always forget that we play that measure differently and end up laughing at each other in the middle because we do it every time. What's funniest is when we decide to give and switch to the other's version -- at the same time! Heh.
zls
# Posted on November 1st 2001 by Zina Lee
This version is completely different from the one played by Dan
# Posted on May 11th 2002 by Toni Ribas
It's fun to listen to the Molloy version of this (almost at slow air pace) followed by the Lunasa version, which is nealy "heavy metal" in comparison.
# Posted on June 1st 2005 by wormdiet
Great tune.
I was convinced Paddy Keenan had it recorded but it doesn't appear here. Or under a different name?
# Posted on October 14th 2010 by birlibirdie
@ birlibirdie Paddy Keenan recording
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2058
# Posted on November 12th 2010 by itsawhistle
=Congress Jig
This is a jig version of the Congress Reel (or vice versa??) Both nice tunes.
# Posted on July 27th 2011 by curamach
Sliabh Russell
Have any of you heard William Coulter's group play this? I love the way he plays it at a more sensuous pace , with flirtatious note stretching in certain parts.
# Posted on February 16th 2012 by KarenNyere
"Sliabh Russell" ~ an alternate take
X: 2
T: Sliabh Russell
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
|: eAA Bcd | e2 a ged | eAA cBA | BGG Bcd |
e2 A BB/c/d | eaf ged | eAA cBA |[1 BA^G A2 d :|[2 BA^G AB/c/d ||
|: eaa efg | agf gfd | e2 a ee/f/g | agf g2 c |
e2 a efg | agf gfd | edB c2 A |[1 BA^G A2 d :|[2 BA^G AB/c/d |]
# Posted on February 16th 2012 by ceolachan
"Sliabh Russell" ~ courtesy of Mary Bergin
X: 1
T: Sliabh Russell
S: Mary Bergin
S: CD: "Mary Bergin: Feadóg Stáin 2", track 9, tune #1
N: an E whistle or the button jockeys boosted this up tempo a full step
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: BDor
|: fBB cde | fbg afe | fec dcB | cBA cde |
f2 B Bc/d/e | fbg afe | fec dcB | cBA Bc/d/e :|
|: f2 b fga | bag afe | fbb fga | gfe f2 e |
f2 b fga | bag afe | fec dcB |[1 cBA Bc/d/e :|[2 cBA B3 |]
K: ADor
|: eAA Bcd | eaf ged | edB cBA | BAG Bcd |
e2 A AB/c/d | eaf ged | edB cBA | BAG AB/c/d :|
|: e2 a efg | agf ged | eaa efg | fed e2 d |
e2 a efg | agf ged | edB cBA |[1 BAG AB/c/d :|[2 BAG A3 |]
# Posted on February 17th 2012 by ceolachan
"Slieve Russel" ~ Bulmer & Sharpley
X: 4
T: Slieve Russel
S: "Music from Ireland, Volume 3", Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley, 1974, page 16, tune #45
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
|: eAA Bcd | eaf ged | edB cBA | BGG Bcd |
eAA Bcd | eaf ged | edB cBA | BAG A3 :|
|: eaa efg | agf ged | eaa efg | fed e2 d |
eaa efg | agf ged | edB cBA | BAG A3 :|
# Posted on February 17th 2012 by ceolachan