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Eddie Kelly’s jig

By Eddie Kelly

Also known as Eddie Kelly’s Jig #2, Paddy Fahey’s No. 12.

There are 4 recordings of this tune.

Eddie Kelly’s has been added to 3 tune sets.

Eddie Kelly's has been added to 15 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Eddie Kelly's
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
AFD {B}~=c3|Ade fge|d=cA G{A}GG|AdB =cAG|
AFD {B}~=c3|Ade fge|d=cA GEA|D/D/DD DFA:|
|:daf g2 a|ged {/B} =cAG|daf ged|cde g{a}gg|
afd fga|fed =cAG|AdB {/B} =cAG|1 E{/F}ED DFA:|2 E{/F}ED DA,=C||
2
X: 2
T: Eddie Kelly's
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
AFD =c3|Ade fge|dcA GFG|AdB =cAG|
AFD =c3|Ade fge|dcA GEA|DED D3|
AFD =c3|Ade fge|dcA GFG|AdB =cAG|
AFD =c3|Ade fge|dcA GEA|DED DFA||
daf g2 a|gfd =cAG|daf gfd|cde gfg|
agf g2 a|fed cAG|AdB =cAG|EFD D3|
daf g2 a|gfd =cAG|daf gfd|cde gfg|
agf g2 a|fed cAG|AdB =cAG|EFD D3||

Five comments

Paddy Fahey’s

This is a Fahey Tune from Oisin McAuley’s album, “Far From the Hills of Donegal”, track five, first tune. I couldn’t find another setting for this tune on the session.

Re: Paddy Fahey’s

another hypnotic masterpiece

Eddie Kelly’s jig #2

I have just added the above “alternate” name as I have been recently in touch with Eilis Crean who recorded that tune under that name on her album “Searbh Siucra”* and said to me that this tune is not a composition of Paddy Fahey but an Eddie Kelly’s one. This is corroborated by the words of Maria Holohan in her 1995 thesis on Paddy Fahey’s work :
“This tune which I got from Paddy in 1995 is, I just discovered, either a simplified setting of the Eddie Kelly’s jig which I have included (ses p. 297) or perhaps Eddie ‘s tune was a development of a Fahey idea years ago. This is the only tune of which the origin is as yet unclear.”
*https://thesession.org/recordings/6681