{"id":2082,"date":"2012-03-11T14:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldtownschool.org\/connect\/fiddleclub\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2014-05-11T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:24:16","slug":"tunes-of-the-week-for-march-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/2012\/03\/tunes-of-the-week-for-march-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune(s) of the Week for March 5, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year when many of us wish we were Irish. That was one of my life goals when I was 15, due in part to a vague notion I had then that traditional Irish music might be found along my pathway to a satisfying and exciting future.<\/p>\n

Inishmaan<\/a><\/p>\n

A few years later, at the end of 1969, I made first and only journey to Ireland, including a boat ride out to the Aran Islands off Galway Bay in the West. During my few days on Inishmaan, I tried to attend a dance or find a fiddle player, with no success, due to my own social clumsiness. I did hear a few sean nos<\/em> (old style) songs at night, sung in Gaelic by one or another old man in an Aran Sweater, while we all nursed a pint in the island’s pub. Meanwhile, the young folks–most home for the holiday from work in England–were having a fine old time dancing away the darkness.<\/p>\n

Last fall I had the great pleasure to meet Gaelic scholar, Deirdre N\u00ed Chonghaile<\/strong><\/a> at an American Folklore Society meeting in Bloomington, Indiana. We played some tunes together with our fellows, and I had a chance to dance a bit with her. And since, Deirdre is from Inishmore, the largest of the three Arans, I finally fulfilled my 40-year-old quest to dance as they dance on the Aran Islands.<\/p>\n

Here is a set of two tunes commonly played together on the Arans for a couple copy. The recording is taken from a YouTube video<\/a> of a kitchen session in County Mayo with Caomhie Donlon on fiddle, her father Larry on banjo, and Cormac Gannon on pipes. The first tune is a common hornpipe, The Stack of Barley<\/strong>. Deirdre calls the second tune Some Say the Devil is Dead and Buried in Killarney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Stack of Barley-Jenny Will You Marry Me<\/font><\/a>
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\n
\nX:10
\nT:The Stack of Barley-Jenny Won’t You Marry Me
\nT:-Some Say the Devil is Dead and Buried in Killarney
\nM:C|
\nL:1\/8
\nR:Hornpipe
\nK:G
\ngf | efed B2dB | AGAB AcBA | GFGA B2(3Bcd | e2A2 A2gf|
\nefed B2dB | AGAB AcBA | GFGA BdAc | B2G2 G2 ::
\nGA | BGBd g2(3efg | agfg edBd | g2fg edBd | e2A2 A2(3efg |
\naged g2fe | dBAG AcBA | GFGA BdAc | B2G2 G2 :|
\nzE |: D2DE GABA | GEE2 cEGE | D2DE GABc | dedB (3ABA G2 ::
\nd2dc Bcd2 | e2ed cdec | d2dc BcdB | GABG (3ABA G2 :|<\/p>\n

Deirdre N\u00ed Chonghaile
\nGuest at Fiddle Club of the World
\nFriday, March 23, 7:30p, Old Town School East<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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