The Humours Of Kinvara reel

Tunes with an interplay of tonality have an appeal.
This is much of what a modal sound is about. Here
the notes are played with the friendly interchange of two key
areas. The second part then lands squarely on a major
key. Talk about square….Anyway has much verve, and nice
to hear (especially if someone else is doing the work, I mean
playing).

an octave A is to high

Already here https://thesession.org/tunes/294

as far as i know altan gave this tune it’s name but i think there was another name for it but pat kelly (the guy altan got it from couldn’t remember it) would love to know what it’s also called. marc

I’ve always known this as “Paddy Kelly’s”, who I believe composed it. Also,Tony Cuffe has it recorded as “Paddy Kelly’s”.

I’ve always known this as one of “Paddy Kelly’s”, who never gave names to any of his compositions.

I learned this tune c. 1982 as “The Man from Bundoran” long before Altan recorded it. I was told that it was a composition of Paddy Kelly who came from Bundoran, a slightly shabby, but still popular holiday resort on the Donegal coast.

“LongNote” has it right here. I’d always assumed it was the Galway Paddy Kelly who wrote this tune, but as well as the fiddler Patrick Kelly from Cree, Co.Clare,there would appear to be a 3rd one with the same name from Bundoran, and this is his tune, according to both “Altan” and James Kelly, Paddy O’Brien & Daithi Sproule’s recordings.

For more comments from Kenny on the composer go here: https://thesession.org/tunes/3221.

X: 1
T: Man from Bundoran
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor

|:BE (3EEE BEdE|BE (3EEE BcdB|cA (3AAA cdec|1(3Bcd AGFD FA:|2(3Bcd ef ~e2 de
|:~f3e dcec|~f3e d4|~f3e f^gaf|ecAc ~e2de:|

Sorry, posted this in the dublicated tunes comment. Here’s my version:

X: 1
T: Man from Bundoran
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor

|:BE (3EEE BEdE|BE (3EEE BcdB|cA (3AAA cdec|1(3Bcd AGFD FA:|2(3Bcd ef ~e2 de
|:~f3e dcec|~f3e d4|~f3e f^gaf|ecAc ~e2de:|

i’m just back from bundoran where i had a great session with ‘pat kelly’ who used to play fiddle along side ‘sir jimmy shand’ he told me the history of this tune and that altan asked pat if they could record it but yes it is a pat kelly tune from bundoran.w.

https://thesession.org/tunes/3306

It seems closely related to this Scottish tune above. I have to wonder if Paddy Kelly actually composed this or just made an Irish version of an already existing older tune…

X:3 from a recording of the Donegal Paddy Kelly, the Man From Bundoran himself. Fun fact: he was the 1st All-Ireland Fiddle Champion.

As 52Paddy says above, there are definitely echoes of “Major Molle” https://thesession.org/tunes/3306 although the tune has evolved a fair bit.

Found this variant of “The Man From Bundoran” on Norbeck (http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnr8/0036). The key and scale are both different, but the interesting part is the scale - this version has the F# in the 2nd to last bar, so it’s G major instead of GMix. The previous versions here (in E Dorian, though arguably really AMix) have the corresponding note as natural.

I learned this from the leader of my session who learned it while visiting Clare. I know it as Man From Bonduran.

I think you misheard. I’ve been to Bundoran - it exists, not at all sure about Bonduran.

Totally floundered that one haha. Yes, I got the O and the U mixed up there.

From the playing of Frances Marriott.