The League reel

Can be found in O’Neill’s "Waifs and Strays" as No. 290. This transcription is closer to the way this tune is
played on Teada’s album "Give Us A Penny and Let Us Be Gone" — they play it really fast and it sounds great!

I met Caroline Kilbane [ and I hope I’ve got her name right ] at a Willie Clancy week flute class I think in 1986. She’s a very fine flute player from somewhere in the south of England. I recorded her playing this tune at the final of an All-Britain fleadh in Glasgow some years back, and unfortunately didn’t get a chance to ask her about the tune afterwards. It’s one of those odd tunes which is a bit between a reel and a hornpipe. I’ve used a bit of imagination here, because I’m sure it’s a tune that on a fiddle or box would go below the range of D, all the way down to a low G. Definitely not a tune to play in a flute competition, for that reason, but it’s a tune I’ve always liked, and I thought it time to put out into wider circulation. If anyone has a name / source for it, I’d be grateful.

Hiya Kenny.This tune reminds me a bit of the Reavy tune Johnny McGoohan`s,at the start ,anyway.Hope all is well with you and yours .Cos

It sounds to me like a version of Miss Thornton’s. It is quite different though.

Thought I recognised it. It’s here already, entitled the League Reel.

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on June 28th 2007 by Kenny.
~ /tunes/7416

X: 2
T: The League
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: G Major
|: G2 Bd gdBd | cBAG FADF | GFED CEAG | FDcA (3Bcd cA |
G2 Bd gdBd | cBAG FADF |1 GFED CEAG :|2 FDCA, G,2 ga ||
|: bg (3ggg bgdg | af (3fff afdf | bgaf gefd | ecdB cABG |
G2 Bd gdBd | cBAG FADF | GFED CEAG |1 FDCA, G,2 ga :|2 FDCA, G,4 ||

Caroline Kilbane ~

"I met Caroline Kilbane [ and I hope I’ve got her name right ] at a Willie Clancy week flute class I think in 1986. She’s a very fine flute player from somewhere in the south of England. I recorded her playing this tune at the final of an All-Britain fleadh in Glasgow some years back, and unfortunately didn’t get a chance to ask her about the tune afterwards. It’s one of those odd tunes which is a bit between a reel and a hornpipe. I’ve used a bit of imagination here, because I’m sure it’s a tune that on a fiddle or box would go below the range of D, all the way down to a low G. Definitely not a tune to play in a flute competition, for that reason, but it’s a tune I’ve always liked, and I thought it time to put out into wider circulation."

# Posted on June 28th 2007 by Kenny

"Hiya Kenny. This tune reminds me a bit of the Reavy tune Johnny McGoohan`s,at the start ,anyway.Hope all is well with you and yours." Cos

# Posted on June 28th 2007 by cos

"It sounds to me like a version of Miss Thornton’s. It is quite different though."

# Posted on June 29th 2007 by PaddyCmusic

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on July 19th 2004 by dlowder.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3302

A tune I like from our local session, which I haven’t been able to find a name for.

https://thesession.org/tunes/7416

I posted it here 7 years ago.

https://thesession.org/tunes/3302