Lizzy In The Lowground reel

This is a great tune written by Liz Carroll and played by her and John Doyle on her great album Lost in The Loop. It has also recently been recorded by Sharron Shannon, Frankie Gavin, Mike McGoldrick and Jim Murray on their album ‘Tunes’. The notes are directly transcribed from the sheet music which she has up on her site www.lizcarroll.com. I think most of her tunes are notated there. So there are no notes wrong unless I’ve done something wrong with the ABC, which is quite possible considering I’m new to ABC. So as soon as the notation comes on this site I’ll double check to make sure it is absolutely correct.

I will be adding more Liz Carroll tunes in coming weeks.

Enjoy.

I added an extra bar by accident, have now deleted it from the ABC, but it’s still in the sheet music until that gets corrected, if it ever does.

by the way it is the third and fourth last bars that repeat each other by accident in the sheet music, so please get rid of one of those!

Lovely tune Dave, cheers!

are you the same mairead concertina player I know? i.e. friend of Liz and Jackie who shared a house with us all in Donegal? If you are hello! If you’re not, hello anyway!

Dave

the very one, hello yourself! saw your website-looks great, good luck!

Frisbee, would ’ the Fiddler’ s Key’ by any chance be among them? Thanks for this one, anyway.

I will include the tunes I have got from her website on this site as I can, but as you will know we can only submit one tune a day on the site, so if anyone else feels up to it, just go to this page
http://www.lizcarroll.com/html/sheetMusic.htm and transcribe the music there into ABC. The next tunes I plan on doing are Sevens and Lost in The Loop. Henk Sorry but The Fiddler’s Key is not on her site.

Who was the eejit who says this tune is also called Billy in the Lowground? They are completely different tunes. Billy in the Lowground is an American Bluegrass tune which is probably where Liz Carroll got her idea for the title of this tune..

Love this tune so thought I’d learn it on the whistle, and in the process worked out this ABC for it:

d3B ABde|fabf abed|bfaefdaf|[1 dBAd Bddc :|[2 dBAd BAFE ||
|:D3E DEFA|B2fB edBA|B2fB edBA|B2fB AFEF|
D3E DEFA|B2fB edBA|B2fB edBd|[1 dBAd BAFE:|[2 dBAd Bdde ||

Sorry, missed the first line

|:d3B ABde|fabf abed|f3b b2ba|bfde fdef|
d3B ABde|fabf abed|bfae fdaf|[1 dBAd Bddc :|[2 dBAd BAFE ||
|:D3E DEFA|B2fB edBA|B2fB edBA|B2fB AFEF|
D3E DEFA|B2fB edBA|B2fB edBd|[1 dBAd BAFE:|[2 dBAd Bdde ||

Recently appears on a brilliant album by Liam O’Brien “The Lane”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7WYXEDwU5c&list=OLAK5uy_kI-7yLc4-AA937yIBlCFMxiNzd2A-Jqeo&index=9&t=0s

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Fans of this tune: here it is played at a good clip as the second tune in this set. Played in A however. This is where I first heard the tune.
The other tunes in here are original compositions of Kyle Waymouth, Kerry Fitzgerald, and Julie Fitzgerald, respectively.

Off the playing of Toby Shaer and Jenn Butterworth. Some variation the second time around. Played on an F whistle with G fingers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L_JSTHPe-o

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