Coleman's

slip jig

Key signature: Edorian

Submitted on December 2nd 2001 by keko.

This tune has been added to 65 tunebooks.

Also known as Promenade, The Promenade.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Tribute To John McKenna by Mick Woods
• Aris by Le Cheile
• Augusta: 20 Years Of Irish Music Recorded Live At The Augusta Heritage Center by Various Artists
• Cape To Clare by Various Artists
• Dusk Till Dawn by Charlie Lennon And Johnny Og Connolly
• Each Other’s Shadow by Flaithrí And Eoghan Neff
• Easy And Slow by Claddagh
• Fiddler's Fancy by Tommy Peoples
• Herding Cats by Gaelic Storm
• Hidden Ground by Paddy Glackin, Jolyon Jackson
• Irish Fiddle Player by Jimmy Power
• Learning Irish Fiddle by Paul McNevin
• Lunasa by Lunasa
• Many's A Wild Night - Domhnach Is Dalach by Jackie Daly
• On Two Levels by Sean Maguire
• Pay The Piper: Music For The Sets Volume 3 by Various Artists
• Phantom Power by Phantom Power
• Play On by Celtic Fiddle Festival
• Promenade by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
• Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
• Sweet Liberty by Susan McKeown
• The Schoolmaster's House by Mike McHale
• The Shores Of Lough Graney by P.J.Hayes And Martin Hayes
• The Wind Among The Reeds by Tommy Keane And Jaqueline McCarthy
• Traditional Fiddle Music From County Clare by Vincent Griffin
• Tuned In by Johnny Murphy
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 2, Disc 2 by Various Artists
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 1 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Coleman's
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Edor
|:B2E E2D B,2A,|B,2E E2F G2A|B2E E2D B,2A,|B,2D D2C D3:|
|:B2e e2d e2d|B2e e2c dcB|A2d d2c d3|e2d d2B A3:|

An unusual tune. It's nice to hear some lesser known slip jigs. There seem to be only about 4 or 5 slip jigs which regularly come up on sessions. Keep them coming.

# Posted on December 7th 2001 by granama

Neato

We just learned this in our Flute class at Riley School with John Skelton... wasn't expecting to see it on here already! (Though in a different key!)

# Posted on February 19th 2004 by Oranaiche

Tune type

I believe this tune is actually a single-jig or slide.

# Posted on March 19th 2004 by reelymcneely

Tune type

A slide would be in 12/8 which would wouldn't make much sense for the phrasing of this tune.

It's a slip jig alright.

# Posted on March 20th 2004 by Jeremy

John Skelton called it a hop jig... though, I've been told that the slip jig and hop jig are very similar.

# Posted on April 13th 2004 by Oranaiche

Harry Bradley also calls it a hop jig. Do a search for 'hop jigs' in the Discussions sections. If you are interested in being academically pendantic, anyway.

# Posted on April 13th 2004 by emily_bmore

Hop Jigs are just a way of playing a slip jig. A hop jig is played faster with a feel almost like a waltz, the first note of each triplet gets the emphasis. If lilted it would get a sort of Dowdle deedle dum feel. Slip jigs are played way slower with more of a dowd-el-y deed-le-y dum.

# Posted on April 13th 2004 by Mad Baloney

Michael Gorman

This tune was made popular as the title track of a Kevin Burke/Micheal O Domhnaill Green Linnet LP. Kevin picked up the tune from a ten-inch Folkways disc recorded in London in the 1950s by the piper Willie Clancy and fiddler Michael Gorman. The liner notes described it as the music for the "promenade" or first figure of a set dance once common in south Sligo, and even provided a description and diagram of the dance. There was no real title on the disc, but Kevin called it "Promenade" for this reason. It has been published as "Coleman's," but was never recorded by Michael Coleman, only by Gorman.

# Posted on October 12th 2006 by blarneystar