Here's a jig about a betting Priest, or a Priestly bet. I don't know how he fared in the gamble but the jig flutters on to this day. There are a few versions of this knocking about. This is more or less like the one in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland.
Here's a slip jig which I was asked to post here. It's been so long since I posted anything that the requestor has probably forgotten requesting it. I don't know whether you need a special type of fig for a kiss; "can I have a fig please; one of those ones you use for ... ?" and if so is it the same sort which helps with the digestive processes. Maybe just typing this little 'f' word will ease the blockage in my tune posting pipeline. I must go now and post some Santa cards.
Here's a tune I've been asked to play. I think there are various cereal crops piled up in hornpipe names. In these straitened times maybe a little stack is the most appropriate choice for the days that are in it ... innit'?
I've been asked to play this one so here it is. There's a tune call "snow on the hills" a few posts down. This one is continuing the theme but maybe has more to do with Kagools than with skis.
Here's a reel which is also called "Murphy's Hound". I'm not sure how it got these two names or what the connection may be between them. Something to do with the Isle of Dogs maybe, though as one island is in the Thames and the other in the Atlantic, I may well be barking up the wrong tree entirely.
The question mark is part of the title, not an indication of doubt about what the title is. Having said (or typed) that, I'm not sure whether said question mark should be in the title. Maybe I should have typed (or written) 'Anything for John-Joe??'. I'm not too sure about the hyphen either. Hopefully the tune is more straightforward???
The recent weather which, according to the radio person, is the worst and snowiest since the last time we were told it was the worst since bad weather started to be bad and to be recorded as such, has reminded me that I was asked to post this tune. I didn't know it so here's just a rough guess as to what the dots at www.snowonthehills.org (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/8535) say it goes like.
Here's a tune I overheard someone asking for. I've a couple more to do too and I'll get around to them as soon as I find where I tied the knot in my hankerchief.
I dinny play this before 'cause I dinny know it right. Chance I still donny but here's a try. (See CRÉ 3 uimh.145 for more reliable version.)
Here's a wee tune I stole out of Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 (uimhir 57). I know it's meant to be bad luck stealing or interfering with thorn bushes in the wild. Hopefully na daoine beaga don't take such a dim view of thorn thefts from tomes.
1 + 1 = ????? Never could add up (or hit a high 'A' - worried about hiatus and all that stuff).
Here's a slip jig. It's maybe more of a slip shod in this incarnation. It's a good tune for anyone with a memory and a set of pipes. I have neither but tried to make do all the same.
I was asked to play this one so long ago that I nearly forgot but here it is; caught just in time. I used to think the title of this tune has something to do with petrol stations. I then learned a bit (a very little bit) about spelling. Any quasi-judicial activitles that used to occur round here tended to be located at the back of petrol stations rather than in front of them in any case.
I think this is also called the "Forget-me-not". Any notion of a sieve-for brains like playing a tune with a name like that doesn't seem right somehow so I'll just keep calling it Redican's.
There are lots of versions of this highland. This is in danger of sounding like none of them but it is an attempt to at least resemble a version I heard on a recording of the fiddle player Jimmy Lyons from Teelin, Co. Donegal. It's far less fiddly on the fiddle than the flute. If playing it in A is too annoying, just drop it down to G. The flute seems to like it there but as someone went to the trouble of making a G# key for my flute, I thought I should go to the trouble of pressing it the odd t...
I haven't had many chances to post tunes lately and this one was a bit of a rushed job. Any sound of a screaming baby in the background is hopefully a reflection on his distaste for bedtime rather than for my playing. Sorry; who am I trying to kid? I've stopped playing now and the baby is now dreaming sweet dreams (of daddies who don't play flutes perhaps).
This one used to be played by Con Cassidy. I should maybe let lazy dogs lie and not try to rush them. The tune bit me in a few places on this occasion for not following that advice but time constraints and all that these days ... (25/08/08 - apologies - this isn't the Lazy Dog Highland - Marin is right. When I get time I will get this sorted out. The dog looks sort of comfortable here though).
I was asked to play this a while ago but haven't had much of a chance to play anything lately. The request referred to the "lovely flowing style" of a certain well known flute player. I'm afraid I can only do stumbling but the tune can still hopefully be learned from here.
Here's a tune from a list of ones I was asked to play. I learned it years ago as the "Flying Rockets" / "Robert Emmett's Flying Spaceship". As is the case with sunsets (I think they require the sun to be in the sky at the start of the setting process), I haven't heared tell of this tune for a long time. I hope I've remembered most of the notes.
I think I have another version of this tune posted here. In a moment of inspiration I called it "Barndance". That moment of inspiration occurred at 2 o'clock on a Sunday morning after many, many hours in a pub. Hopefully this version is slightly less "inspired" (though it's still a bit shabby in parts).
Here's one I forgot about. Maybe I forgot too much about.
I'm sure nobody was wondering what it sounds like when a person plays a jig they don't know while looking out at a pissing wet August afternoon. Just on the off chance that anyone was ...
I've seen this tune with a "Hinch" and also with a "Hench". I was never a good henchman so I'll stick with i before e
Here's a tune which I found lurking amongst the ones which I must have uploaded at some stage. I don't know why I never posted this one and I'm too much of a coward to listen back to it to find out. I'll leave the mal de mer to others. There is a lovely tune called "The Rolling Wave". I hope this is like it but I'll not bet on it.
Here's a tune which has the same number of names as it has parts. It may also have other names I don't know about.
There's a jig called "Kitty's Rambles" / "The Rambles of Kitty" (depending on which form of the genitive case is to the fore) but this one is nothing like it, apart from having the same time signature, structure and almost the same name. I've never seen this one referred to as "The Rambles of Cat" but I have seen "Whelan's Old Sow" (but not "The Old Sow of Whelan") pinned to it. Neither tunes' names nor names of tunes ever made much sense to me. Hopefully this cat's / Kit's / whatever you please...
Here's a reel composed by Edward V Reavy. I hope I haven't decomposed it too much here.
Here's a version of a popular reel from South West Donegal. There's at least one other version of this tune and once I've got over the trauma of trying to remember this one I'll try to remember it too. I've put 2 tunes on today as it being the twelfth of July, there are lots of other flute players and their friends clogging the streets of Belfast and causing businesses and places of entertainment to close. This gives me a lot of time to spend in the house this sunny Saturday.
I was asked to play this reel and here's my attempt to oblige. Séamus Ennis's father wrote the tune and there's a great rendition of Séamus playing available on a CD. I think youtube even has a video of the same performance. My attempt at picking through the tune is far from what the real thing is but at least it's in 'D'. (I had to find some good point to refer to).
This is a fairly common tune. I'm sorry if it appears hurried in places but I was getting withering looks from a baby while I played it and that put me off a bit.
