The Green Fields Of Glentown

reel

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on May 5th 2002 by Kurt Franke.

This tune has been added to 157 tunebooks.

Also known as The Green Feilds Of Glentown, The Green Fields Of Glen Town, Green Fields Of Glentown, The Greenfields Of Glentown, Tommy Peoples'.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 20th Feakle Festival: Reeling Through The Years by Various Artists
• 40th Anniversary Album by Armagh Pipers Club
• A Cheap Present by Birkin Tree
• Across The Waters - Irish Traditional Music From England by Various Artists
• Altan by Altan
• Altan's Finest by Altan
• An Exciting Session With One Of Ireland's Leading Traditional Fiddlers by Tommy Peoples
• Between The Sets by Barefield Ceili Band
• Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly
• Broken Hearted I'll Wander by Dolores Keane, John Faulkner And Eamonn Curran
• Ceol Aduaidh by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh And Frankie Kennedy
• Claddagh's Choice: An Anthology Of Irish Traditional Music by Various Artists
• Coolfin by Donal Lunny
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 11 by Matt Cunningham
• Dóbró by Frankie Lane
• Donal Lunny by Donal Lunny
• Familiar Footsteps by Dezi Donnelly
• Fit As A Fiddle by Natalie MacMaster
• Foinn Seisiun 2 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
• From West To East - Live Sessions by Various Artists
• Gusty's Frolicks by Sean Keane
• Helter's Celtic by Ashley MacIsaac
• In Full Flight by Gavin Whelan
• In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
• In The Tradition by Boys Of The Lough
• Island Angel by Altan
• John McCusker by John McCusker
• Kiss The Tears Away by Silly Wizard
• Live In America by Silly Wizard
• Live In Concert by Brid Harper And Dermot Byrne
• Macalla Na HÓige by Hugh Healy And Colm Healy
• Morga by Morga
• Music For The Sets - Volume 6: Face The Hob by Various Artists
• Ocean View by Shanachie
• On Oiche Go Maidin by O'aces
• Once Again (1987-1993) by Altan
• Osna by Osna
• Selkie by Mick Conneely
• Seven Evenings, Seven Mornings by Shantalla
• Sharon Shannon by Sharon Shannon
• Standing Room Only by Eliot Grasso
• Take The Bull By The Horns by Tom Doherty
• The Best Of Altan by Altan
• The Best Of Silly Wizard by Silly Wizard
• The Big Spree by Breabach
• The Fiddle Music Of Donegal - Volume One by Various Artists
• The First Ten Years: 1986 - 1995 by Altan
• The Frost Is All Over by Paul McGrattan
• The Irish Low Whistle by Joe McKenna
• The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
• The Open Road by Steph Geremia
• The Piper's Call by Liam O'Flynn
• The Piper's Rest by Jimmy Morrison
• The Plain Of Jars by Brian Kelly
• The Quiet Glen by Tommy Peoples
• The Sharon Shannon Collection 1990 - 2005 Disc 1 by Sharon Shannon
• Think Before You Think by Danu
• Three Shouts From A Hill by Cian
• Traditional Irish Music From Doolin Co. Clare by Terry Bingham
• Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
• Tunes For Practice by Seamus Creagh
• Two For Two by Laurence Nugent
• Waiting For A Call by Tommy Peoples
• Wherever You Go by Wild Asparagus
• WhY2Keilidh by Howie MacDonald
• Your Daughters And Your Sons by The Duhks

X: 1
T: Green Fields Of Glentown, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
EA,~A,2 E2DB,|G,B,~B,2 G,A,B,D|EA,~A,2 E2DE|GBeB dBAB|
eB~B2 eBdB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 E2DE|GEDB, B,A,~A,2:|
|:A2EA cAEA|G2DB, G,A,B,D|EA~A2 GABd|edBA aged|
bg~g2 afge|dB~B2 GEDB,|A,E~E2 E2DE|GEDB, B,A,~A,2:|
|:A2EA cAEA|aged bage|dG~G2 DGBd|gded Bdgd|
e2Be eBdB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 E2DE|GEDB, B,A,~A,2:|

doesn´t fit the pipes but i like this tune...

# Posted on May 5th 2002 by Kurt Franke

Green Fields of Glentown

This great reel which has been played by many celebrated traditional musicians, including accordionist Sharon Shannon, is one of the many fine compositions by Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples.

# Posted on May 6th 2002 by Bannerman

Green fields

Great tune - one of the best

# Posted on May 7th 2002 by shoddy fiddle player

Green Fields of Glentown

Agreed. Tommy Peoples rocks my world

# Posted on May 7th 2002 by Jeremy

Green Fields of Glentown - listen to it here!

I discovered you can listen to a great version of Tommy Peoples playing this amazing tune by clicking on his web site

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~logo/thegreen.html

Al

# Posted on May 19th 2002 by Al Baxter

Natalie MacMasters also plays this tune on her fit as a fiddle album. Great tune - just learnt it two days ago of the cd, then found it in here.... *sigh*, must let my fingers do the searching!!

# Posted on May 23rd 2002 by jamiedj

Noticed that there are no Natalie MacMasters albums on the recordings pages??

# Posted on May 23rd 2002 by jamiedj

posted a natalie macmaster recording, "no boundaries", just yesterday

# Posted on June 19th 2002 by no longer exists

The Green Fields of Glentown

If you want to hear a real knock out version of this tune then get a hold of the Frankie Lane recording entitled Dobro on the Geal-Linn label. Rarely have I heard this tune played with such cool swing. Believe me it is polished performance and well worth a listen.

# Posted on March 29th 2004 by Clyens

One of the "Big Reels", surely

From time to time one hears or reads of a special category of tunes called "The Big Reels", reels that carry a particular charge, and make particular demands of a soloist, at any rate, to the extent that the audience will really, really listen to the way he/she succeeds or fails in performing that particular tune. ("Farewell To Ireland" has got to be one of them.) "Green Fields Of Glentown" has simply got to be one of these big reels.

# Posted on August 30th 2006 by nicholas

As played by Howie MacDonald

Heard this great tune on Howie MacDonald's CD "WhY2Keilidh". He only plays two parts, the A pretty much as is and a B part as follows:
A z EA cAEA|G2DG B,DG,B,|A,A~A2 BAGE|edBA aged|
bg~g2 aged|BG~G2 EDB,G,|A,E~E2 (DE2)F|GEDB, A,B,CD|.
It's still pretty darn difficult to play at speed.

# Posted on November 10th 2006 by DonaldK

The Green Fields Of Glentown

The Nollaig Casey version on Donal Lunny's album also has only 2 parts:

X: 1
T: Green Fields Of Glentown, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
D|EA,~A,2 ~E2DB,|G,B,~B,2 G,A,B,D|EA,~A,2 ~E2DE|GBeB dBAB|
eB~B2 eBdB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 ~E2DE|GEDB, B,A,A,:|
|:D|~A2EA cAFA|FGDB, G,A,B,D|EA~A2 EABd|edBA aged|
bg~g2 afge|dB~B2 AEDB,|A,E~E2 ~E2DE|GEDB, B,A,A,:|

# Posted on April 16th 2007 by Dow

Liz Carroll played a great version of this on an old recording called Irish Traditional Music In America: Chicago.
She called it Eddie Kelly's, I seem to recall. I still have the LP which I hope to transfer to mp3 format soon.

# Posted on August 30th 2007 by StephenR

Green Fields of Glentown 3rd part of Nollaig Casey version

Here is the 3rd part for the version posted by "Dow". It's transcribed from "Coolfin". The first bar can of course also be played like the first bar of the 2nd part :
|:G|~A2EA cA~A2|aged bage|dB~B2 GABd|gfdc Bgfg|
eA~A2 fedB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 ~E2DE|GEDB, B,A,A,:|

# Posted on September 2nd 2008 by walterbracht

bar 4 should read |gedc Bgfg| So sorry!

# Posted on January 20th 2009 by walterbracht

A setting as a Jig

If anyone's interested...
http://malcolm.schonfield.free.fr/zik.php?tune=glentown_jig&lang=en

# Posted on October 4th 2009 by GoPlayer