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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2024, 07:45:55 PM »

A couple of barn dances popular in Clare:  Joe Bane's and the Gypsy Princess.

To be honest, the first one seems to have started life in Scotland (where it's known as Dornoch Links).  But they've both been very much part of the Irish tradition for a long time now.  First learned from the playing of Jack Talty and Cormac Begley.

https://youtu.be/k8j4DAcn0LM
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2024, 02:43:11 AM »

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2024, 05:49:06 PM »

My contribution - Three Irish polkas learnt from he Rakes. As Tony has pointed out, I have mixed up the girls names. All I can say is that it was dark in those woods........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzRp0yMdZY&t=44s
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2024, 08:05:34 AM »

My attempt at wrestling one of Jackie Daly’s ‘Newmarket’ polkas out of the old HA112C!.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2RQT_mqUXs
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2024, 03:00:00 PM »

Despite my paternal grandparents being from Belfast and earlier generations from Fermanagh, the DNA does not seem to have conferred an ability to play with "an Irish Accent".
Here's Paddy O'Keefe's Slide number 3, possibly with an English accent?

https://youtu.be/EEyEoPSLcnA

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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2024, 07:56:45 PM »

 Paddy O'Keefe's Slide number 3 sounds pretty authentic to me - well played
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2024, 02:57:07 PM »

This is a tune I've been meaning to learn for a while, but seeing as it didn't get chosen for ToTM this month I've recorded it for the Irish theme instead.

Inisheer by Thomas Walsh
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2024, 06:07:52 PM »

This is a tune I've been meaning to learn for a while, but seeing as it didn't get chosen for ToTM this month I've recorded it for the Irish theme instead.

Inisheer by Thomas Walsh

Can't go wrong with that tune. It's fantastic!

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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2024, 06:11:49 PM »

A last minute change of choice this month; was learning something rather more technically complex, but this is... just lovely. I learned it from William Coulter's recording, here's Citi ma GCummin

https://youtu.be/0NN4a0qVkVQ

Played on a Hohner Preciosa in Bb/Eb. I could tell you more about its origins if mudcat wasn't down, but I gather it's an Irish song tune.

Cheers,

Clive

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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2024, 07:50:59 PM »

Here's one of my favourite Irish hornpipes.  Sean-nós singer Jimmy Keane was born in London of Irish parents.  As an iron worker in Chicago in the 1960s, he earned the nickname "The Horse".  His son, a brilliant PA player also called Jimmy, wrote this hornpipe in his memory.
Played with a couple of friends on Benny, fiddle and cello, it's a bit of a rough  first-take phone recording.

https://soundcloud.com/jignatius-aeola/horse-keanes

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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #30 on: January 25, 2024, 09:47:46 PM »

Here's a couple of standard reels you'd often hear at sessions in Ireland (and elsewhere). The Boys of Ballisodare and the Humours of Tulla, played without much finesse on a D/G Castagnari Tommy using its grungy low voice. The combination of tunes just happened as I was recording- they're not a particular set I'd ever play together.

https://youtu.be/TJsuUbxNAnI?si=NHVOemNb1d290XJr

[despite the random heater featuring in the background of the video we're actually in the middle of a bloody heatwave here]
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2024, 05:19:26 PM »

Will Duke keeps suggesting tunes I ought to learn.
Here's Mrs Kenney's Waltz.
A good work out for the 6 voice box as it nears completion and final tuning.
https://youtu.be/VC6QMmQYGw8?si=vej-Iyq_D-Umv3GJ
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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2024: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2024, 09:35:10 AM »

Thanks everyone - on to the next country; as usual please stick any late contributions on the end here!

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Re: Theme of the Month for January 2023: Tunes from Ireland
« Reply #33 on: February 07, 2024, 06:36:37 PM »

I haven't posted on here for a long time.

Here's a session regular:

https://youtu.be/Ll6NVmIkpzM?si=s8647Qa1aFAhR2mi

I found your rendition of this tune so beautiful that I had to try myself. I change the rhythm of the left hand a bit at the end. Played this way, I think the tune really lends itself to mazurka dancing. :)

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