Fort Of The Daft Woman reel

I got this tune from the Ready for the Storm album by Déanta. (https://thesession.org/recordings/790)

In trying to find out more about it, I also ran across the Bridget Cleary recording on the web. (https://thesession.org/recordings/5082)

I don’t know any more about it, like who wrote it. (It’s just a guess, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was composed by Deidre or Kate from Déanta). I learned it because it has some good elements as a teaching tune for banjo players, including a lot of double stop and low drone opportunities in the A part, and some good finger gymnastics in the B part, without being TOO difficult. So I taught it to my class at PIMW this year, and figured that I had better transcribe it for them.

As usual with posting tunes, I struggle to figure out what to put in the “base setting” and what not to put in. I did integrate a couple of variations. One is the on the second half of the A part, where I transcribed what Deidre (flute) was playing instead of what Kate (fiddle) was playing on the Déanta recording. And I put a little twist on the resolve of the B part that gives it a bit of separation from the A part.

Just ran across a note on irishtune.info that mentioned that it was actually composed by Rosie Mulholland, the keyboard and (other) fiddle player in Déanta.

another variation of the great version posted here from Reverend also following the same source= the album “Ready for the storm” by Deanta