Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Fred Finn's Polka, Killavel Postman, The Killavel Postman, Killavil Post, Killavil Postman.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Killavil Postman, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Dmaj
|: F>G |
A2 d2 d>ed>B | A>BA>F E>DE>F | D2 D2- D2 E2 | F6 (3EFG |
A2 d2 d3 B | A>BA>F E>DE>F | e2 e2- e2 f2 | B6 A>G |
A2 d2 d>ed>B | A>BA>F E>DE>F | D2 D2- D2 E2 | F6 A2 |
B2 B2 G>F E2 | A2 A2 F>ED>B, | A,2 D2- D2 E2 | D6 :|
|: d>e |
f2 f2 d>c B2 | f2 f2 d>c B2 | f2 f2- f2 g2 | f6 d2 |
e2 e2 c>B A2 | e2 e2 c>BA>c | e2 e2- e2 f2 | B6 d>e |
f2 f2 d>c (3Bcd | f2 f2 d>c B2 | f2 f2- f2 g2 | f6 d2 |
f>d f2 e>c e2 | d>B d2 c4 | c>de>d c>de>d | c2 (3BcB A2 :|
K: Gmaj
Bc |
d2 g2- g2 e2 | dedc BAGE | D2 G2 G2 A2 | B4 B3 c |
d2 g2 g2 e2 | dedc BA G/F/E | D2 a2- a2 b2 | a4 a4 |
g2 b2 g3 e | dedc BAGE | D2 G2- G2 A2 | B4 B2 d2 |
e2 e2 cB A2 | d2 d2 BAGE | D2 G2 G2 A2 | G6 a2 ||
b2 b2 gf e2 | b2 b2 gf e2 | b2 b2- b2 c'2 | b4 g4 |
a2 a2 fe d2 | a2 a2 fed/e/f | a2 a2- a2 b2 | f4- f4 |
b2 b2 gfeg | b2 b2 gf e2 | b2 b2- b2 c'2 | b4 g4 |
.b2 .b2 .a2 .a2 | .g2 .g2 f4 | f2 ag fgag | f/g/f e2 d2 ||
"The Killavil Postman" ~ an X-file?
I was so sure I'd already added this barndance to TheSesh, but I couldn't find it. I know I did a search for recordings and notes and that I did several transcriptions for someone.... That was at least last year or earlier, but it may have been in the time of my great hard disk meltdown? Anyway, I didn't find the old transcription but here it is in two flavours and keys and with some other options woven in, basically using some recordings as touchstones, including "Arcady: After the Ball" and a YouTube recoding offered up in 'Discussions' recently ~
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Discussion: Name that Polka?
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by flossie
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/14004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YIrzeY9iwo
"Farewell to Whiskey" / "The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue" / "The Killavil Postman"
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
"Fred Finn's Polka" / "The Killavil Postman"
Recording: "Niall Vallely: Beyond Words" (concertina)
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/791
Track 12: "Fred Finn's"
Recording: "North Cregg: Summer At My Feet"
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1406
Track 12: "Fred Finn's"
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Killavil Postman" ~ G & 2/4
X: 1134
T: The Killavil Postman
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance (polka)
K: G Major
B/c/ |
dg- ge | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/E/ | DG GA | B2 B>c |
dg- ge | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/E/ | da ab | a2 a2 |
gb g>e | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/E/ | DG GA | B2 Bd |
ee c/B/A | dd B/A/G/E/ | DG GA | G2 Ga ||
bb g/f/e | bb g/f/e | bb- bc' | b2 g2 |
aa f/e/d | aa f/e/d | aa- ab | f2 a2 |
bb g/f/e | bb g/f/e | bb- bc' | b2 g2 |
bb aa | gg f2 | f/g/a/g/ f/g/a/g/ | fe d ||
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Last night while I was out walking the dog I remembered that when I asked Dale Dahl the name of this tune a few years back, he told me he'd heard it called the "Sligo Polka".
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by Sol Foster
Two-Step? ~ in the Kerry Mills fashion (composer 1869 - 1948)
It has, like with other tunes, picked up a few names and associations... I had a suspicion there was a 'trio' that went with it too, but I never found one, and I still haven't found an earlier title and source for this... That may account for why I hadn't submitted it previously, plus the tendency for folks to crank this out at crazy tempos. What are they trying to prove anyway? The problem is, yet again, when the music and the musicians are distanced from the marriage of dance and melody... I think this is a hell of a lot more fun taken in stride than used to prove something, either the quantity of variations you can cram into it, or that you can drive it flat out ~ flat out... But I admit, I'm no fan of mixing crystal meths and traditional dance music...
Speed kills!
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Other famous Kerry Mills tunes, aside from the various "Kerry Mills", are the likes of "Georgia Camp Meeting”, “Red Wing” and "Whistling Rufus / Reuben"...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Videoclip
The musicians (L-R) are Johnny Óg, Steve Simonds, Tomás Neachtain, Charlie Lennon and daughter, and Liam O'Hara.
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by Patkiwi
'c' I love how you've posted this as a barndance, and I love your setting. Thanks once again. It makes a really crap polka.
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by Dow
Killavil ~ a parish in County Sligo
The area deserves notice in its own right, but is mostly remembered and referred to in association with a fiddler born there, Michael Coleman (1891-1945), whose talents were born there and then exported to America in 1914, and then imported back in the form of 78 rpm recordings and airtime on the wireless (radio). Influences moved both ways, which is my suspicion with this melody. Having lost its name, as happens often, one was found for it, and more than once. As said previously, it has that dancehall way about it, with a touch of ragtime about it ~ and personally, I think it sounds like shight mixed in with the usual Irish polkas, which stand alright on their own. The change either way seems clumsy and out of kilter...
Michael Coleman's father was a flautist, and their house was one of those open to visitors and musicians and dance, a 'visiting house', so much so that it had its own nickname ~ "Jamesy Coleman's Music Hall", but let me refer you to a place where you can read more yourself ~
http://www.irishfiddle.com/
http://www.irishfiddle.com/coleman.html
The area of Killavil has become tagged "Coleman Country", but it is and has always had musical talent about, before and after this maestro...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Fred Finn was also from Killavil: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/452/comments#comment224037
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by slainte
Yes, the fiddler, and so is Peter Horan, a flute player, and ~ follow the discussion link above for links specifically to do with Fred Finn...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Coleman Country"
Michael Coleman, fiddler, was born in the townland of Knockgraine, the parish of Killavil, South County Sligo on 31st January, 1891.
Other tunes have been tagged with this geographic association ~ jigs, reels, at least one song, ~ ?!? & a band...
The Killavil Jigs
The Killavil Jig
Killavil Fancy
Around Killavil
Trip To Killavil
Killavil ~
http://www.killavilmusic.com/
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Bless you Patkiwi ~
Go raibh ma'agat ~ nicely done Patkiwi!!! I'm glad the musicians were credited. I may not like that mix of tunes, but I enjoyed the listen... If it was his choosing, it isn't the first time that Charlie Lennon has done some peculiar mixes of forms in a set...
Since you seem to know, what exactly is the 'daughter's' name?
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Cakewalk?
It has that feel about it, don't you think?
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
In the YouTube, I particularly liked the foot stomping...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
"Salty Dog Rag"
~ a dance that would go nicely with this...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
I've just had a good laugh reading comments on the YouTube link, how Alistair Cassidy doesn't like Niel Gow's "Farewell to Whiskey" outside of its originally intended use as a ssssloooowww air tempo. I could see that if the whiskey were already gone, but if it was on its way out by the hands or throat of another, the adrenalin would be up and I'd be angry enough to want to take things apace...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Musicians
Apologies, Charlie's daughter is named Eilish, there's also a second guitar player whose face I can't see but I'd hazard a guess that it's the Dubliner Dave Flynn. The first two tunes have been recorded as a set by nearly everyone, the only time I've heard the third is as a piano tune off Arcady's first record
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by Patkiwi
Well credited. It is just the third tune in the set, this one, that jarred in combination with the others. It went further for poor Cassidy...
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan
I think Kerry Mills also wrote "Meet me in St.Louis, Louis"
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by McMandolin
Youtube clip
wow I just saw that youtube clip and am a bit freaked out by it, I think it's a bit rude of the person to film that and put it up on youtube without asking the musicians, particularly Charlie, Johnny and Eilis, as it is their session.
that is me playing guitar, you can see my guitar but you can't see me! as far as I remember Steve had just arrived into the session around that time and that's why you see him standing up.
It was a great session though, as it always is there but I'll be looking out for bootleggers from now on!
# Posted on September 1st 2007 by The Transcriber
T:The Killavil Post
M:4/4
S:Pathway To The Well by Matt Molloy And John Carty With Arty McGlynn
Z:gian marco pietrasanta
K:G
|dg g>e | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/E/ | DG GA | B2 B>c |
dg g>e | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/c/ | Aa ab | a2 ag/f/ |
gb g>e | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/E/ | DG GA | B2 Bg/f/ |
ee/B/ c/B/A | d/e/d/c/ B/A/G/E/ | DG GA | G2 Gg/a/ ||
b-b/f/ g/f/e | b-b/f/ g/f/e | bb- bc' | b4 |
a a/f/ g/f/e | a a/f/ g/f/e | aa- ab | f4 |
b b/f/ g/f/e | b b/f/ g/f/e | bb- bc' | b2 g>a |
bb aa | gg f2 | a>g f/g/a/g/ | f/a/e/a/ dB/c/ |
# Posted on April 7th 2008 by gian marco
Composer?
Sorry for my ignorance but I'm a bit lost having read through the posts on this tune. Was this composed by Kerry Mills or is it just similar to something he would write?
# Posted on May 11th 2008 by PaddyCmusic
C: Kerry Mills ~ is the suspicion
However, I never did manage to find the specifics or the suspected trio...
# Posted on October 8th 2008 by ceolachan