Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on February 2nd 2002 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 33 tunebooks.
Also known as Andy Boyle's, The Kerry No 1, The Kerry No.1, Kevin's, The Mist On The Glen, Pat Horgan's No.1.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Cathy's Favourite
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
D2 FA | dc BA | BE EF | GA/G/ FE |
D2 FA | dc BA | Be Bc | d2 d2 :||
eB eB | eB B>c | dA dA | dA A2 |
eB eB | eB Bc | d/c/B AF | E2 E2 :||
I learned this tune from AOG (aka Tony Guitierres (sp)) at a local session. Last week I played it with Jack Wright & asked him for the name of the tune, he told me it was called "Cathy's Favorite" while I poked him with my bow & called "A-Hole!!". Jack was the author of the "Anyone who knows the name of a polka is an A-Hole"-rule. that was mentioned at the session.org before. Anywho it's a good li'l polka.
With love from RI
# Posted on February 2nd 2002 by Mad Baloney
IŽm an A-Hole, too!
This one will forever have a place of honour in my repertoire being the first Irish dance tune that I ever learned, around 1980 or 81, from a young lady who had learned it during her first trip to Ireland. She also has a place of honour in my memory because she was a lot of help when I was looking for my first fiddle.
And it is the first tune that I ever tried writing down, counting note names with the help of my fingers and making all sorts of mistakes, stems on the wrong side of the head and the like...
It was simply called "Kerry Polka" then (at that time I didnŽt know they had more than one...) and was in the key of G. A short time later I heard a recording of it by some ceilidh band together with another polka. They called the set "The Glenside Polkas". IŽll try the Abc searching thing and find out if somebody has posted it already. If I donŽt find it IŽll post No. 2.
I think they are both very suitable for beginners at Irish music. The tunes are quite obvious which makes them comparatively easy to learn by ear, they sound Irish enough to make beginners feel they are playing the real thing (to my ears many Irish polkas sound decidedly Bavarian...) and it is not too hard playing them at something close to the proper tempo. I have taught them at various workshops (usually entitled "How to play by ear!") and most of the time they worked... This version in D has given me the idea of teaching it in this key and make my "victims" transpose it to G on their own. Maybe it works...
# Posted on February 5th 2002 by Joerg Froese
When played in G, this is known as Kevin's Polka.
# Posted on March 7th 2004 by Paddy
Triplicated @
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1410 & http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3724.
# Posted on April 30th 2006 by Dow
Triplicated ~ is that all?
"The Newmarket Polka"
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on October 15th 2001 by J?Fr?/a>.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/330
|: DF AF/A/ | dc Bc | EF ~
# Posted on July 1st 2006 by ceolachan