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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Moloney, Mick 13573190]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) (composer) 33682623]]> Creative Commons License
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I had forgotten completely about the tune and did not remember any of it when years later we came across the videotape and watched it together. She said as we watched it, 'See I told you, I knew you wouldn't remember it'. How right she was! That was Sandy. Always thinking and a step ahead. The tune is more complete now as I give it my best shot on this track. Another transcription of the jig is to be found in A Drop in the Ocean, a book of Irish traditional tunes compiled by my friend Josephine Keegan.]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Webb, Jeannine]]> Bérubé, Alice]]>
A few days later, after my friends had returned home, a fax came to my house with a tune written on manuscript paper. It was a jig that the ladies had composed while up in my attic. They had somehow found their way up there. Unfortunately, on the day the fax arrived my machine was running low on ink. The lines on the paper all ran together on the tune's second part, and I was unable to make it out. At Sandy's suggestion, I sat at the kitchen table to compose a temporary replacement for it.

I next met the ladies a year later at the Northeast Heritage Music Camp, and we began to play the jig, but with a few surprises and laughs as our two competing second parts clashed against each other! I had to explain to them what had happened to their original second part, and my addition was demoted to a third part. We recorded it with help from Ken Perlman on banjo and Pete Sutherland on piano, two fellow teachers at the camp. Thanks, ladies, a nice gift, better than 'anything' from a shop.]]>
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Folk music--Ireland]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Airs]]> McGann, John 275956837]]>
A more complete version of the tune is heard on this track, with my good friends the late John McGann playing guitar and Gabriel Donohue on keyboard. John was very involved with the transcription of the tunes for this project but, alas, he left us too soon. So in John's memory, perhaps 'Remembering Curly Remembering John McGann' might be a perfect title for this tune. Thanks, John, for all the music, stories, laughs, and friendship.]]>
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In the 1980s, as part of a musical delegation to Washington, D.C., representing the State of Massachusetts, I had the honour of visiting the Old Post Office and hearing the bells ring. When in full peal, the bells can take up to three and a half hours to complete their continuous performance. However, my composition on this track takes only a few minutes. I am joined by Gabriel Donohue on guitar.]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Reynolds, Larry]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) (composer) 33682623]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Polkas--Ireland]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Cranitch, Matt 18879859]]> Mette, Meghan (fiddle)]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) (composer) 33682623]]> McElroy, Kevin (bodhrán) 70994386]]> Magone, Barbara MacDonald (piano) 53396920]]> Creative Commons License
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