The Newmarket polka

Newmarket has to be the most prolific source of polkas. Here’s another one, from the playing of Jackie Daly, another prolific source of polkas.

This is completely different than the Art O’Keefe’s I play… but it’s a good tune, I’ve heard it before.

Very nice

Pretty much an amalgamation of the previous versions with some extra bits and bobs. Learned from a ceilidh band tunebook.

This is a lovely polka from the playing of Timmy O‘Connor, an older boxplayer from Toureendarby, Newmarket, North Cork. Timmy recently had a CD put out, and I believe this is it, but I was fortunate enough to learn it off him in person on a Monday night at Scully’s in Newmarket. If anyone gets the chance to be anywhere close to North Cork on a Monday night, there’s great music to be had in Scully’s. Timmy plays much more to Tom Billy’s style than Patrick O’Keeffe’s, but is Sliabh Luachra through and through. I like to play it after the Glin Cottage Polkas (https://thesession.org/tunes/559 and https://thesession.org/tunes/1113#setting14369 ).

I think this is actually the third Green Cottage polka:
Track 13 here https://thesession.org/recordings/164

Also here
https://books.google.com/books?id=nWsKmth9vwgC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=third+polka++green+cottage+denis+murphy&source=bl&ots=9HKkY39g62&sig=1YWEs8e6cLHNQDqSA_lw0Yyi0SQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE4arb0evVAhVIsVQKHVFXBZQQ6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=third%20polka%20%20green%20cottage%20denis%20murphy&f=false

Seems to be another setting of The Newmarket.

I figured it had to be here somewhere!

This is the third polka in the Green Cottage selection played by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford:
Track 13 here https://thesession.org/recordings/164

Also can be found here
https://books.google.com/books?id=nWsKmth9vwgC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=third+polka++green+cottage+denis+murphy&source=bl&ots=9HKkY39g62&sig=1YWEs8e6cLHNQDqSA_lw0Yyi0SQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE4arb0evVAhVIsVQKHVFXBZQQ6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=third%20polka%20%20green%20cottage%20denis%20murphy&f=false

From the playing of Timmy O’Connor.

The tune THE BAG OF BEER from Solas CD WAITING FOR AN ECHO ist linked with this polka,
but it is a different tune (a jig).

Title from Jackie Daly and Patrick Street - Street Life