Lucy Campbell reel

Here’s a nice 4 part reel.

I’ve always wondered if the person who wrote this was a fan of The Bucks Of Oranmore…

Perhaps the seed of The Bucks of Oranmore ? They do indeed sound VERY similar, but I have a Neo-Darwinian faith that given plenty musicians learning by ear, pleasant sounding mistakes, imaginative variations and enough time, the two will evolve into two different sounding creatures.

The seed or the fruit of its loins?… I wonder whether they actually will diverge as you say. I suspect that they are both too well documented in the form of books, recordings, net postings etc to change significantly. I’d like to think not.

I have often thought he same thing - about the first part in particular. But then, I always find in these cases, that the tune also bears resemblance to some other tune entirely, for example, the final part of this tune is almost identical to the 2nd part of The Union reel (whose 1st part is very similar to the 1st part of The Foxhunter’s Reel).

…and hasn’t anyone noticed that The Bucks of Oranmore, despite the different rhythm, bears an uncanny melodic and structural resemblance to the common 4-part version of The Lark in the Morning - which, in turn resembles the multi-part D version of The Geese in the Bog, which is related to the 2-part Am/C version ….and so on. There seems to be almost a continuous spectrum of tunes - so much so that I’ve been led right off the topic of Lucy Cambell’s.

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Am I mistaking or is Billy Brocker’s Reel simply the first two parts of Lucy Campbell, or perhaps a two-part version?

The Boyne Hunt also sounds a bit like a two-part version of this. I don’t know the relation of the tunes though.

Sounds like the bucks and Last nights fun.

Listen to a relaxed yet tight piano accordion & banjo duet playing of this well-known reel: http://leedscce.com/images/26%20-%20Track%2026.mp3

The second reel is the Yellow Tinker. The musicians are Micheal Tennyson (piano accordion), Jody Moran (banjo), and Neil Baillie (bouzouki), who would represent the scene in the north of England. The clip is from the latest Leeds CCE recording titled “The Music Makers.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupFW-97nmg …..second tune.

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Great playing from Cathal Hayden, Stevie Hayden, Seamus O’Kane and Mark Mohan

Lucy Campbell’s has its origins in Scotland as a 6-part strathspey.

Oops, posted the wrong link there, that’s Grace Kelly playing the Morning Thrush. Here’s the one I meant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TEOknAKdz0

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First tune here… clip starts during the 2nd part…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK8VTbcnACk

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From 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-KmQWxhk0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXbbH43yT_c

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i can hear the american tune sally goodin in lucy cambel

I think this was written by Niel Gow according to the Glenfinnen ceilidh band’s Shores of Loch Shiel cd.

Another nice rendition from the 2013 Fleadh in Derry:

http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_424_8_edel_mclaughlin_theresa_kavanagh/

This is the version played in my regular session. I don’t remember where I learned it. Probably from a piper.

My favourite setting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cv7dQGwHlk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61htVK74SmM

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Played by Patsy Hanly and Tom McGuire : Buncrana 1975 [ the photo is from 2010 ] :
https://youtu.be/50SdBbobVts

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I occasionally (never in sessions) like to take this a string down on my fiddle and play it in G. “The Bucks of Oranmore” is also great played this way.

Taken from ‘A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions’, compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch. A great reel to get things going with a bit of pace!

https://youtu.be/R0kxK845jWo

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Another variation. Here’s a lovely video of Caoimhe Flaherty playing Lucy Campbell after Dr. Gilbert’s at the Con Curtin Festival a few years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRmKVPSwp8

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