Matt Peoples’ reel

The 2nd of the 2 “Matt Peoples’” reels from “Molloy, Peoples & Brady” LP.

Thanks, Kenny. I’m trying to learn the local version of the tune and transcribe it. It’s mistakenly called Tommy Peoples’ in Leeds. I listened to the sample track of “Traditional Irish Music from London” some months ago and found they play it as Martin McMahon

does this Matt Peoples really exist or was it a kind of joke between Matt Molloy and Tommy Peoples when recording the album?

No joke. Matt Peoples is an uncle of Matt Molloy, unless I am mistaken.

While staying in Ennis, I heard Matt People’s Reel #1 was composed by Siobhan Peoples for M. Molloy and T. Peoples. If it’s true, this reel can be her composition too.

For me the evidence would have to be a lot more convincing than just “I heard someone say…” Great tunes though, both of them.

Matt Peoples identified.
http://www.irishfiddle.com/peoplesinterview.html

Thanks for the correction. But “someone” told me that Siobhan herself insisted she composed #1. I don’t think the info is very reliable, though.

I mean the info I got from “someone” isn’t very reliable.

In an interview published in spring 2004 in Fiddler Magazine
http://www.fiddle.com/issues/spr04.html#anchor1852610
Siobhan stated she was thirty-one years of age. This means she must be born around 1973.

Matt Peoples’ reels on Molloy/Brady/Peoples were recorded in February 1977. Well, I know some musicians start early …

Submitted on May 20th 2002 by Musicalbison.
https://thesession.org/tunes/691

This being #2 on the meth crystal influenced (techies boosting the adrenalin) recording “Matt Molloy, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples”, track 1…

Tommy Peoples and Matt Molloy playing the reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e17cYSXQD7Y

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Derek McGinely and Tara Connaghan, both from Donegal, recorded a very similar-sounding reel called “Gealach An Fhómhair” on their album “The Far Side of the Glen.” Listen to them play it here: http://soundcloud.com/farsideoftheglen/gealach-an-fh-mhair-the-old

Second tune here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e17cYSXQD7Y

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allready here 🙂 ……. matt peoples, see: https://thesession.org/tunes/2980
marin

A 3rd part contrasting the duet provided by ‘Steve Owens’ and hinted at by Tommy’s playing.

slainte wrote “It’s mistakenly called Tommy Peoples’ in Leeds.”
That explains why I know it as Tommy Peoples’. I first came across it in a book published in 1989 called “Where’s the Crack?” (sic) by David J Taylor who is from that general area.

Thanks to maracirac for picking that up. 🙂

Not as adroit as Tommy’s playing, but here is the full set.

‘Steve’, apparently I also have that book, but had overlooked it - identical to your setting except in the 4th and 6th measures of the turn (‘egfe dBBf’ and ‘ad~d2 fede’, respectively), and without the additional repeat.

Oh yes. 4th and 6th bars of the B part - like the game of “Whispers” or “Telephone”. Something always gets rearranged, but it’s interesting to see someone else’s take on the same theme. And Tommy’s!
Again with Matt Molloy here @ 1:26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDb4KMDlPC0

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AKA Lady Gordon’s

I just noticed that the second part of this is nearly the same as the first part of Boys of Ballisodare but in a different key.

A subtle difference from X:1 -- it can be nice to lead up to the B part after the second A.

Tommy Peoples wrote in his book that this tune, and the one played preceding it in Am, were learned by him from his uncle Mattha. Tommy never heard the tunes played by anyone else, and so called the set “Matt Peoples’ ” after their source, his uncle.

Heard it in a local session, second part very slightly different to what has been uploaded already.