Father Kelly's

reel

Key signature: Gminor

Submitted on October 28th 2005 by withak.

This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.

Also known as The Daisy Field.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• An Bhabog Sa Bhadog by Kevin Crehan
• Between The Sets by Barefield Ceili Band
• Caise Ceoil by Various Artists
• Celtic Reign by Celtic Reign
• Classic Recordings Of The Irish Fiddle Legend by Paddy Reynolds
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 10 by Matt Cunningham
• Dancing On Silver by Tim Collins
• Foinn Seisiun 1 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
• Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
• I Will If I Can by John Carty
• In The Wind by Shegui
• Looking For A Rock by Juniper
• Music From The Coleman Country by Various Artists
• One by Murphy Roche Irish Music Club
• PJ Wallace And Friends by PJ Wallace
• Seamus Tansey With Eddie Corcoran by Seamus Tansey
• Set On Stone by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
• Song Of The Chanter by Various Artists
• Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
• The Devils Of Dublin by Celtic Music Society (East Rochester HS)
• The Gallowglass Ceili Band by The Gallowglass Ceili Band
• The Greystone Ramblers by Greystone Ramblers
• The Kitchen Recordings by Seán O'Driscoll And Larry Egan
• The Mouse Behind The Dresser by Shaskeen
• The Mulcahy Family by The Mulcahy Family
• The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
• The Plain Of Jars by Brian Kelly
• The Road From Ballinakill by Mike And Mary Rafferty
• Tone Roads by Wild Asparagus
• Traditional Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
• Traditional Irish Music From Boston by The Magic Square
• Traditional Music From The Legendary East Clare Fiddler by Paddy Canny
• Traditional Music Of Ireland by Kathleen Collins
• Trian by Trian
• Tripping Down The Stairs by Spiral Seisiún
• Turning by Knot Fibb'n
• Walking Stones by Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

X: 1
T: Father Kelly's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmin
Ac|:dGGG DGBd|cFFF CFAc|dGGG DGBD|AdcA G2Ac|
dGGG DGBd|cFFF CFAc|dGGG DGBD|AdcA G2Ac:|
|:dggg ggag|fdcA FGAc|dggg ggag|fgaf g2gf|
dggg ggag|fdcA FGAc|dGGG ^dGdG|AdcA G4:|

Another Father Kelley's, this one from John Carty's "I Will If I Can" album. He plays countless variations, but this is the way he taught it at a workshop and is about as stripped down of a version as I could get.

# Posted on October 28th 2005 by withak

This isn't the Father Kelly's that I'm familiar with but it is a very good tune all the same...

# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by Music Addict

Paddy Kelly Composition

John Carty is apparently mistaken. He mixed Father Kelly up with Paddy Kelly, the East Galway fiddle player. This, coincidently, has happened on another one of Paddy's tunes. In any case, Paddy Kelly wrote this and called it "The Daisy Field" according to the sleeve notes on Tim Collins' album "Dancing on Silver." Aside from John Carty and Tim Collins, the only other recording I have of the tune is a recorded session tape of Padraic Mac Donnacha, Conor Tully and Frank Hogan which was recently uploaded to the internet. However, Tim got the tune from a recording of Joe Burke so it is in good circulation, so it seems.

# Posted on January 5th 2008 by PaddyCmusic

Paddy Canny

Paddy Canny also recorded the tune on his solo album "Irish Music from a Legendary East Clare fiddler." He called it The Daisy Field also. It's pretty clear that Paddy Kelly did compose a tune called the Daisy Field because Mike Rafferty apparently notes it on one of his albums but, he didn't play this tune, it was a different tune. I've only read this up so don't have the album at hand to check but I did come across some ABCs of the tune which Mike calls "The Daisy Field" and attributes to Paddy Kelly but it's not this one. I also came across sheetmusic to "Paddy Kelly's 4-Part" and that was named "The Daisy Field". Maybe its time to head down to the archive.

# Posted on January 5th 2008 by PaddyCmusic

This is not what Mike Rafferty recorded as The Daisy Field.

# Posted on January 5th 2008 by slainte

Mike Rafferty

Is Mike Rafferty's tune in C (2-part) and very different? If so, its the ABCs I came across on the net. But I still think this is The Daisy Field.

# Posted on January 5th 2008 by PaddyCmusic

This *is* like the Paddy Kelly reel which Mike and Willie play on the Road from Ballinakill, but here it is in Gminor - whereas Mike and Willie play it in G major. In Martin Mulvihill's book it is listed as "Father Kelly's" also (in G major, no natural F's) but it does seem to actually be Paddy Kelly's.

The other thread "Paddy Kelly's reel" has this same tune in G major.

It looks to me like another of Paddy Kelly's compositions is also known as the Daisy Field. Its mentioned on this web page
http://www.cranfordpub.com/tunes/Irish/PaddyKelly.htm
and that is the one I associate with Paddy Carty. there's a sound file there of Mary McNamara playing it.

Hope that helps.

# Posted on May 1st 2008 by LH