Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 3rd 2001 by Jdharv.
This tune has been added to 151 tunebooks.
Also known as Gigue à Ti-Mé, Heather Breeze, Heathery Breeze, The Heathery Breeze.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Heather Breeze, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
DGBG dGBG|DFAF cFAF|DGBG dGBG|BdcA BGGE|
DGBG dGBG|DFAF cFAF|DGBG dGBG|BdcA BGGd||
g2 gf gbag|fdde fgaf|g2 gf gbag|fdcA BGGd|
g2 gf gbag|fdde fgaf|g2 gf gbag|fdcA BGGF||
Heather Breeze
Has been recorded by many including Matt Molloy on his 1981 album of the same title and also by accordion player Dermot Byrne on his self titled 1995 solo album.
John Harvey
Rhodeirish.net
# Posted on December 3rd 2001 by Jdharv
Alternative endings
John,
This tune is most often heard with a slightly different ending, with the last four bars played:
g2 gf gbag|fdde fgaf|defg abag|fdcA BGGF||
Only the last-but-one bar is different from the setting you gave.
However, this ending is used in a number of tunes, including The Pretty Girls of Mayo, and others that I can't think of just now. I really like this ending, remembered (possibly wrongly) from a recording by the great Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran. The last two bars are different:
g2 gf gbag|fdde fgaf|gbag fagf |edcA (3Bcd AF||
Try it, I think you'll like it!
On the subject of the name, it's very poetic, but it's probably a corruption of "The Heathery Braes" (hillsides).
# Posted on December 3rd 2001 by Jeeves Tones
Quebecois version
This reel has a quebecois version called Gigue à Ti-Mé (not to be confused with Reel à Ti-Mé).
It's been popularized by the great accordionist Philippe Bruneau. As for many other reels and jigs, few people in Quebec know it's of Irish origins.
# Posted on January 18th 2007 by f.pellerin
Version from Caoimhin O'raghallaigh
I got this version off a concert with Caoimhin and Mick. I think it's the same one.
X:1
T: Heather Breeze
M: 4/4
L:1/8
R: Reel
|:DGBG dBGB|FGAB cBAF|DGBG dBGB|1 BdcA BGAF:|2 BdcA BGG2|
|dggf gbag|fd3 fagf|dggfgbag|fdcA BGG2| dggf gbag|fd3 fagf|g3a bgag|fdcA BGAF||
# Posted on May 24th 2007 by enirehtac
Great tune before Pigeon on the Gate.
# Posted on August 25th 2007 by dinn2
Here's how I heard Andrew MacNamara play it:
X: 3
T: Heather Breeze
S: Andrew MacNamara
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: Reel
K: G
DGBG dGBG|DFAB cBAF|DGBG dGBG|B/c/dcA BGG2:|
~g3f gbag|fdde fgaf|~g3f gbag|fdcA BGG2|
~g3f gbag|fdde fgaf|defg ~a3g|fdcA BGG2||
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by Phantom Button
I learnt this from an elderly Kilkenny boxplayer who plays this as an ordinary reel rather than a single reel. Second part ended first time as
g2 gf g2ag|fdde fga2|defg abag|fdcA BGGF
and second time around as
g2 gf g2ag|fdde fga2|bgaf gbag|fdcA BGGF
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by the wounded hussar