Le Reel Des Voyageurs

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 20th 2006 by Alarican.

This tune has been added to 41 tunebooks.

Also known as The Laborer's , Les Reel Des Voyageurs, Reel Des Voyageurs, Traveller, The Traveller, Walker Street, Walker Street Hornpipe.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 1975 The First by The Bothy Band
• 7:11 by Brolum
• A Dance Visit To Ireland by McCusker Brothers Ceilidhe Band
• All Ireland Champion Musicians Singers And Dancers On Tour Of Australia by Na Ridiri
• Another Side Of Cape Breton by Johnny Wilmot
• As We Got Them: Traditional Flute And Fiddle Music From County Sligo by Various Artists
• Between The Sets by Barefield Ceili Band
• Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 1 by Waltons Recording
• Live In Lisdoonvarna by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
• Music From A Little Known Planet by Wild Asparagus
• One by Murphy Roche Irish Music Club
• Past Masters Of Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
• Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
• Presence by Catherine Fraser And Duncan Smith
• Raise The Rafters by Raise The Rafters
• Sharon Shannon by Sharon Shannon
• Sunday After Mass by Denis O Connor And Con Moynihan
• The Best Of Seamus Tansey by Seamus Tansey
• The Birnam Witch Project by Harem Scarem
• The Gallowglass Ceili Band by The Gallowglass Ceili Band
• The Home Ruler by Catherine McEvoy
• The Irish Low Whistle by Joe McKenna
• The Morning Mist by Joe Burke
• The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
• The Russell Family Of Doolin, County Clare by The Russell Family
• The Slopes Of Benbulben by John Regan
• Two Gentlemen Of Clare by Gerard Commane And Joe Ryan
• Venus In Tweeds by Shooglenifty

X: 1
T: Le Reel Des Voyageurs
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
D2|G2 BG dGBG|ABcd cBAG|Bdgd (3efg dB|cBAG FADF|
G2 BG dGBG|ABcd cBAG|Bdgd (3efg dB|BGAF G2||
Bd|{a}g2 dg Bgdf|gabg agef|g2 dg BgdB|cBAG FADF|
{f}g2 dg Bgdg|gabg agef|gfga gfed|(3efg fa gedB||

Err... isn't this just the standard Irish reel "The Traveller" with it's name translated into French?

# Posted on March 20th 2006 by Sol Foster

Not only that, but there's already a French title, Le Reel Des Ouvriers, here in the database. Pretty impressive when an Irish tune has two different French names!

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/143

# Posted on March 20th 2006 by GaryAMartin

It's also called the Traveller or Walker Street.

# Posted on March 20th 2006 by Fiddlekit

I have a tune called Les Jardins De Sallie. Can I post that?

# Posted on March 21st 2006 by Dow

Haha, you're funny, Dow!

# Posted on March 21st 2006 by Fiddlekit

What about Le Itinérrances Du Connaughthomme?

# Posted on March 21st 2006 by dafydd

it's not at all far-fetched -- i've got a lovely one-row accordion album with the set Reel des Ecoliers / Mademoiselle McCloud on it.

# Posted on March 21st 2006 by Sol Foster

Oo yeah post those - we need some more original matrerial like this here at thesession.org.

# Posted on March 22nd 2006 by Dow

Thanks Alarican, don't listen to the jibes - i'm just glad you posted it with the 'real' name - and finally linked to the Sharon Shannon album, where it belongs!

Anyway, enough of the pettiness, how do i link it to Shooglenifty's 'Venus in Tweeds'??

# Posted on March 31st 2006 by birdman5

Add an s to Le (Les Reel Des Voyaguers) as that is how it is listed on the Yenus in Tweeds page. I went a head and did it myself.

# Posted on April 1st 2006 by Unseen122

Ah... now i know - cheers!

# Posted on April 18th 2006 by birdman5

Le Reel Des Voyageurs

Apparently well known in Canada as "The Laborer's Reel". Kate Dunlay has suggested that the "Traveller" title may stem from the French travailler = to work, which leads me to think that O'Neill played one of his re-naming tricks. Who knows?

This tune was also published in 1881 in the Edinburgh publicaton 'Kohler's Violin Repository' as "Walker Street Hornpipe".

# Posted on January 7th 2007 by nigelg