Sixpenny Money jig

this tune can also be found on the chieftain’s ‘Santiago’ in dueling chanters -it is the first of two tunes, the other one being a galician tune.

the other one, the galician tune is the polka of Vilagarcia.

A nice one to follow Tripping Up the Stairs, similar but not too much the same.

You can hear an amazing rendition of this tune at http://www.kittylieover.com/biog.htm. The first video clip is Mick o‘Brien and Caoimhin o’Raghallaigh playing in a club in Carlow. Remarkable stuff.

--DtM

http://www.claddaghrecords.com/WWW/music/mp3/SEPT2005/MS001trk1.mp3

Watch master piper Neil Mulligan play the jig: http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_317_2_neil_mulligan

This is a great demonstration of how an old simple tune can be turned into a gem.

Piping jig

Heard this version played by Seamus Ennis and Ken Rickets, it is played in a rather tight or staccato style.

Late in Seamus Ennis’ piping career he started to play in a tighter style. Whether it was intentional or not, I do not know.

Taken from ‘A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions’, compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch.

Somebody ought to write a tune called 006 Money Penny.

Transcription of the version played by the Victoria celtic band Knackers Yard, as part of a set of three: Sixpenny Money, Banis Misfortune, and Whelan’s Frolics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONw8BXmc_D4

play video