Con Cassidy’s jig

Source: Altam : “The Red Crow”
Transcription: g.m.p.

On of those tunes that make me happy.

Great melody - was it ever played as a slide in the Sliabh Luachra style as when I started humming it, it had a slide feel to it? However, the geography would suggest otherwise with Con Cassidy being a Donegal fiddler and also the Altan connection.

Wow, this was one of the first jigs I ever learned, and I forgot how much I liked it! It was also one of the first tunes I ever put it in a set -- followed by Irish Washerwoman (i *said* it was when I was a beginner) and Merrily Kiss the Quaker. I remember I was so proud of that set… LOL

T:Con Cassidy’s Jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Altan : The Red Crow
R:jig
Z:g.m.p
K:G
|“G”B3 BAB|“Am”d2c A2F|“Em”G3GFG|“G”BAG“D” A2B|“C”c3 cBc|“G”e2d B2c|“D”d
ed cAF|1“G”~G3 G2A:|2“G”~G3 G2g:|
|:“D”f2d def|“C/D”gfg a2g|“D”f2d ded|“Am/D”c2A A2g|“D”f2d def|“C/D”gfg a
2g|“D”fed “Am/D”ed^c|1“D”d3 d2g:|“D”2ded
cdc||

Played in a local session after the Blackthorn stick and before Jimmy Boyle’s https://thesession.org/tunes/3382

On the single jig / slide issue, it also goes nicely with this wan:

“If I Had A Wife”
Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 21st 2004 by fidkid.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3735
https://thesession.org/tunes/3735/comments

But don’t let the parts get confused…

I transcribed this tune from the Leonard-Kernan MS, c.1844-1850, of Abbeyshrule, Co. Longford. It’s the second tune in a set of quadrilles entitled ‘Sligo Quadrills’.

@Bannerman: The first part is very similar to the slide “Rain a Sup” https://thesession.org/tunes/3829

It seems this tune is incorrectly linked to the album Solstice by Todd Denman and Aniar.

Part 2 of this march/slide/ is also found in The Turfahun barndance
https://thesession.org/tunes/5055, a 12/8 Co.Antrim tune taken down by Sam Henry.