The Colliers’ reel

Source: Paddy Keenan: "Poirt an Phiobaire"
Transcription: g.m.p.

I heard Eoin O’Riabhaigh play this one at the 2003 Tionol in Chapel Hill. Michael Vignoles also plays this one. A great tune!

The version based on Paul O’Shaughnessy and Harry Bradley’s duet playing:

K: Dmix
FDFG A3B|cAdB cAGB|Add^c d2de|fde^c dcAG|
FDFG A3B|cAdB cAGB|Add^c ABAG|1 EFGE FDDE:|2 EFGE FDD2||
f2eg fde^c|Add^c Adde|f2eg fde^c|AGAB c3d|
eaag efge|dfed cAGB|Add^c ABAG|1 EFGE FDD2:|2 EFGE FDDE||

Some people might prefer starting the tune like this: |FD (3EFG A3B|….

This tune comes up in many of recent recordings, and so you’ll come across it several times in new places.

This is a sweet little tune. I was listening to Tommy Peoples’ setting of it on "Waiting for a Call" this morning. Sounds to me like he is playing it down a 5th (Gmix). Really changes the feeling. I love it.

I love Tommy Peoples version too. However the tune as hear it has a second part to the second part which is not notated anywher I can find.
Can somebody give me the full setting, please!!!

I have found the full version in Tommy Peoples 50 Irish fiddle tunes in the key of Gmix but it’s still not quite as I hear it in he second part. I know Tommy has his unique phrasing but would be nice to get near it. My ear is not as good as I would like and therefore have to rely on written music to fill the blanks in. Ah well, maybe next lifetime!!

Related to My Love is in America: https://thesession.org/tunes/77

They have a couple of bars similar in the B-part, but how did you find out they were related to each other?

I think the relation between the two reels is a broad fact, which has already been pointed out by someone else. They share *basically* the same B-part. The thing is, the version Gian Marco transcribed isn’t very standard.

Dow, I know you will never agree with me on this, so let’s not talk about it any more. It actually doesn’t matter whether they are related or not, simply because they aren’t the same tune.

Woo, you’re cranky today 😀

Haha, not as much as you!

There was an old song with this title which John Griffin recorded and he played this reel and sang the song to the tune of the Collier’s reel.

Here’s a nice version from Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh and Danny O’Mahony……….second tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YLo3wH8dsk

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

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Played here, first as a jig then a reel by Edel Fox, Ronan O’Flaherty, Johnny McDonagh and Dave Flynn

https://thesession.org/tunes/1051

Here’s a transcription of Johnny McCarthy’s (the accordion player from Ennis) recording of Colliers’ on his latest album, Steele’s Rock. He follows it with The Broken Pledge. (It’s setting number 3, above.)

Piping version

Some ornamentation from the playing of Blackie O’Connell

Here’s a great recording of Luke O’Brien playing The Colliers’ reel together with The Scholar at this year’s Tionól:
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1383&mediaId=31559

Tommy Peoples version in G Mixolydian from Fifty Fiddle Tunes

A lovely version is by Paul O’Shaughnessy is here: https://youtu.be/ofkKznx9FuI?t=90

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