Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 18th 2007 by Kenny.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Barehaven, Finbar Dwyer's Berehaven, Finbarr Dwyer's Berehaven.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Berehaven
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
GB (3BBB AGEG | DGBe dBAB | GD (3DDD B,DGA | BdAc BGGA |
BGdB gdBd | cABG AGEF | G2 DB, G,B,De | dBAB G3 e :|
dB B2 GB B2 | DdcB AGFA | DAFG ABcA | dedc AGFA |
G2 BG DGB,D | GBdB cBAG | Bdgd BGDB | cedc BG G2 :|
Berehaven
One of the earliest compositions by the great Finbarr Dwyer. It’s taken me a while to get round to transcribing this, but I think was worth the effort. Don’t know why it isn’t better known, but if it enters a few repertoires through this posting, then that’s what this website should be about. I seem to remember my old buddy Bernie Stocks from Belfast had a transcription kicking round the internet somewhere, but in the key of “A”.
Posted in honour of Mrs “RonP”, who comes from that neck of the woods.
# Posted on November 18th 2007 by Kenny
God, I can't believe I forgot to submit this tune. I have it mostly transcribed (apart from the final 4 bars) and saved to ABC Navigator but it was an unfinished tunes from months ago. Well, thanks for posting anyway Kenny. Did you learn this from Finbarr's album yourself or do you have a different source?
I know the Swallow's Tail Ceili Band recorded it under the title "Finbarr Dwyer's Berehaven" on their "hell for Leather" album.
As for the tune in A, well Finbarr himself played it in A a few months ago when he did a gig at The Merchant pub in Dublin. Check it out on youtube (I uploaded it!).
# Posted on November 18th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
I see that it's not showing up in the recordings because the recording of the Swallow's Tail was submitted spelling Finbarr with one 'r'. But that's their problem so I'm not adding it as an alternative title. Finbarr uses 2 r's and I'm not going to do otherwise.
# Posted on November 23rd 2007 by PaddyCmusic
On my copy of Pure Traditional Irish Accordion Music, this reel is the second one on the first track, given the title Gillespie's. I don't dispute that Berehaven is the correct name for the tune since Billy Moran always gave it the name Barehaven. Does anyone know the real (well, you know what I mean) name of the reel given the name "Berehaven" on this CD. It's one in A that I learnt from somewhere else without a name and can't find here.
# Posted on November 29th 2007 by kjay_bc_box
Gillespie's = Donegal Traveller in A
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4028
# Posted on November 29th 2007 by Kenny
As Kenny points out, the reel Gillespie's is a different tune which is "Donegal Traveller" and Finbarr plays it after Pigeon on the Gate. The Berehaven is a different tune which Finbarr plays after Trim the Velvet on track 7. The Berehaven posted by Kenny is indeed the actual tune, Berehaven as composed and played by Finbarr Dwyer.
# Posted on November 29th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
Thanks for your help Kenny and PaddyCmusic. Turns out iTunes had gotten the names on these two tracks the wrong way around (Trim The Velvet/Berehaven was labelled as The Pigeon On The Gate/Gillespie's and vice versa). To make matters more confusing, the tracks were in the right order by name (the first track was trim the velvet and berehaven but labelled pigeon on the gate). Glad to have a name for my Amaj tune as well. Thanks, kjay
# Posted on January 1st 2008 by kjay_bc_box