Crossing the Shannon/Casey's Reels

[trisha]

Hi..anyone got the dots for these as played on Na Connerys first album? Have tried the usual sources and the tunes listed aren't these.

Thanks

[kenny]

"Crossing The Shannon" is definitely listed at the"Session" website, as are several by Bobby Casey, if it's one associated with him.

[trisha]

Kenny, yes it's listed and linked, but it's not the same music.

This is as close as I've got...a fragment on the web:

X:
T:Crossing the Shannon
M:4/4
L:1/8
N:This is just a fragment. Anyone with the tune, please send it to me
S:Ir-trad, George Fowler, 3/97
R:R
H:NaConnerys, "Celtic Sessions"
K:EDor
E2 B2 GABG|E2 B2 AFDF|E2 B2 GABc| dcdB AFDF|

How's life in the Granite City? Great memories of student days...

Trisha

[djm]

Ceolas suggests its the same, or related to, The Humours of Carrigaholt. Is this the tune you meant?
http://www.ceolas.org/cgi-bin/ht2/ht2-f ... he+shannon

CROSSING THE SHANNON. AKA and see "The Funny Reel." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AABB. Source for notated version: Frank McCollam (Ballycastle, County Antrim) [Mulvihill]. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, Vol. 3, No. 39. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 176, pg. 48.

HUMOURS OF CARRIGAHOLT (Pléaraca Charraig an Chabhaltaigh). Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB (Breathnach, Cranitch): AABB (Miller & Perron). Carrigaholt is near the southwestern tip of County Clare. The original Irish name is "Carraig an Chabhaltaigh," which translates as "rock of the fleet", and is probably a reference to a nearby place on the Shannon River that was once used as an anchorage. Source for notated version: fiddler John Kelly (Co. Clare/Dublin, Ireland) [Breathnach]. Breathanach (CRE III), 1985; No. 133, pg. 63. Comhaltas Ceotoiri (Ag Deanamh Ceoil). Cranitch (Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; pg. 90. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; Vol. 1, No. 17. Gael-Linn Records CEF 018, John Kelly & Willie Clancy - "Seoda Ceoil I" (1968). Any Old Time - "The Crossing." Ossian Records, Matt Cranitch - "The Irish Fiddle Book" (companion tape to the tutor). Shanachie 79024, "Chieftains 4" (played on tin whistle by Sean Potts in the middle of the "Drowsy Maggie" track).

T:The Humours of Carrigaholt
S:Séan Potts, Chieftains 4, A 1
Z:Jerome Colburn
M:C|
K:D
dAGA G2 AG | FD d2 FGAB | =cAGF G2 FG |1 Addc d2 fe :|2 Addc d2 z2 ||\
f2 df f2 gf | edcd efge | fdde f2 gf | edcd ~e3 e |\
f2 df f2 gf | edcd efge | agfa gfec | Addc d2 z2 |]**

[trisha]

No, fraid it isn't. The fragment above is the A1 part which is then repeated. Then it goes haywire - I'm hopeless with Slowdown software.

Tune is definately played for Irish dancing in Brittany...I've also a bad MD recording from a Breton Irish session. Trouble is the French aren't very good with remembering tune names, but this is what the Na Connery album calls it.

As for the Caseys, it doesn't seem to be any of those on The Session listing. Sigh.

Trisha

[kenny]

From your "abc" fragment, I'd say it's "The Man Of The House" - try that.

[kenny]

or it could be the version of "Drowsy Maggie" known as "The Reel With The Beryl".

[trisha]

From your "abc" fragment, I'd say it's "The Man Of The House" - try that.

Thanks Kenny..certainly workable from that. Isn't it infuriating when bands name things wrong.... :roll: .

Trisha

[fluti31415]

Hi..anyone got the dots for these as played on Na Connerys first album? Have tried the usual sources and the tunes listed aren't these.

Thanks

I've gotta learn these -- my name is Shannon, and my brother's name is Casey.

[kenny]

Want to give us a few "abc" bars of "Casey's" while we're on a roll ?