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Up To Your Knees….
A curious title, but a fine reel. From Mary Bergin’s 1st solo recording.
Recording
Also to be found on ‘Made in Cork’ by Patrick Street.
Up to your Knees in Sand
This reel is known as "Chuig na Glu’ine I nGaineamhThu’ " in Irish . It could be a reference to the practice of shellfish gathering on the west coast of Ireland, in which one is frequently up to your knees in sand, water,shells, irate crabs, kelp etc.
Feadoga Stain Mary first ablum is a miracle of whistle playing; this set is no exception. Interestingly enough, I found this tune goes equally on pipes and wire harp.
Mrs. Crotty
This tune is a relative of the "Teetotaller" or "Temperance" reel as played by Mrs. Crotty, the late Kilrush concertina player.
West Clare Reel
On Shaskeen’s "Atlantic Breeze" this tune is called "West Clare Reel".
This is how Tom Driscoll plays the tune
Tom is a native Clareman, from Moymore in Liscannor. He learned many of his tunes from Paddy and John Kilhoury. This is Tom’s setting.
X: 1
T:Up to Your Knees in Sand
R:reel
D: Tom Driscoll, Co. Clare
Z:id:hn-reel-164
M:C|
K:G
|GB~B2 GBEB|FA~A2 FADA|GB~B2 GBEB|AFDF ~E3F|
|GB~B2 GBEB|FA~A2 FADA|G3 F GBdB|AGFG ~E3F:|
~G3F GABc|dBeB dBAF|DFAF BFAF|DFAF GFEF|
~G3F GABc|dBeB dBA2|Be~e2 dBAF|DEFD ~E3F:|
Re: Up To Your Knees In Sand
Played by cathal haydon here many moons ago lovely tune on banjo
Re: Up To Your Knees In Sand
I’m afraid not - the titles of both reels as given on the "Youtube" title are wrong - see the comments I posted 2 years ago :
"The names of the 2 reels given in the title are both wrong. Cathal almost certainly got the first from the playing of Co. Galway whistle player Mary Bergin. He recorded this tune on his first solo LP, "Handed Down", and called it "Mary Bergin’s" on the album sleeve. Mary recorded that tune on her solo LP "Feadoga Stain", but had no name for it. She did also record the reel "Up To Your Knees In Sand", but on a different track [ Track #8, last reel ]. It’s very likely that someone has got the titles confused somewhere along the line.
"Leah Holst" - see below - is correct in that the 2nd reel played is "Sweeney’s Buttermilk", and not "Crowley’s#2".
Great banjo playing.
Re: Up To Your Knees In Sand
Does this remind anyone else of "O’Connell’s Farewell to Dublin"? Or am I just crazy?