Padraig O’Keefe’s slide

This is a set beginning with Padraig O’ Keefe’s Slide and flowing into the Happy one-step a cajun type of tune.

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is sharon’s version a slide?

It sounds like a relation of Kathryn Tickell’s tattoo.

Em, its two tunes, the first is a slip jig i think (not sure really!) and the second is a cajun one-step.

I thought the Blackbird was one of Pádraig O’Keefe’s slides but this would need some checking out.

Is it Plane - Is it a bird - No it’s not a slide, and this may sound Irish, but you could dance a ‘Slow Quickstep’ to it. Whatever it turns out to be..it’s one bloody awful tune…Sorry.

The melody is very close to the Gullane Slide which was associated with Pádraig O‘Keefe and was recorded by Johnny O’Leary

slide it is

Im with Free Reed…..AWFUL!!

I don’t think I’d go so far as saying it’s awful (taking it for what it is I think it’s quite pleasant) but I definitely don’t want to hear it played in trad sessions - over the years I think I’ve only ever heard it introduced two or three times which is more than enough!

I don’t think much of it as a tune either, I’d far rather hear or play the other blackbird tune,(the set dance).

or the hornpipe as played by concertina virtuouso Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh.

The first part of this set is a slide, in fact, it’s this one: https://thesession.org/tunes/1844

and unless you’ve got something against slides in general I’m wondering what the problem is (disregarding the Cajun thing that’s the second tune).

ha, i never thought i’d get so many responses on this one, i think its a catchy tune and a good effort to change up an old tune.

I dont like it,I prefer the other two blackbirds therslow air and the set dance.

Osharpd - Your link which is the first tune in the set, is a slide, no doubt about that, but I can’t see how the last tune in the set could be played as a slide. The tempo is wrong surely, and is that not the tune in question that is titled ‘The Blackbird’. ???? Like some on here I too prefer the Blackbird Hornpipe or the Blackbird Set Dance.

“Blackbird” is simply the name Sharon Shannon gave to this track, which is a mashup of two tunes -- Padraig O’Keefe’s (a slide) and The Happy One-Step (which is, um, something else entirely). It doesn’t make sense to talk about the track or set as if it’s a single tune.

Lunasa, among others, does the same thing -- they give names to sets. Doing so doesn’t mean that name applies to all (or even any) of the tunes in the set.

And, just as some performers mash up different tune types in a single track (jig to reel, anyone?), her playing the first tune as a slide doesn’t mean the second one should be played or danced as a slide. (God, I hope no one would try that.)

If some of the comments above seem a bit odd, it’s because all but the first comment were part of a thread on the main discussion board that was moved to this tune-specific page.

Yeah, what do you know, I love it!

one of the best kerry tunes ever

The polka called Padraig O’Keefe’s on Fonnchaoi by Verena Commins and Julie Langan is actually this: https://thesession.org/tunes/5877 (not the slide listed on this page)

Mimi And The New Generation Polkas https://thesession.org/tunes/10602
Padraig O’Keefe’s https://thesession.org/tunes/5877
Gan Ainm (Tina Lech’s) https://thesession.org/tunes/6170

Let’s not get carried away and start listing the MANY other tunes also passed around as “Padraig O’Keeffe’s”. 😀 This ain’t the only slide that has taken that name, nor is there only one polka known by this title.

Great tune

G Major

This is usually played with Clifford Slide #1 The Whistling Thief.

See https://thesession.org/tunes/18699 for the Gullane Slide which is a very close relative.

Can’t say I like it a lot there’s plenty of other slides I much prefer [and quite a few of them are also called
Padraig O ’Keefe’s] !