Delaney’s (jig) on The Session

Delaney’s

This comes from the brothers Mike & Paddy Rafferty [ flute & lilting respectively ] from the "Leg Of The Duck" cassette tape recording which I’ve just posted. Lovely in its’ simplicity.
This is in Breathnach’s Vol.1 as"Port Tineatha", but in Dmix, instead of Emix - the lad have transposed it up a whole tone.

Reminds me of the Walls of Liscarrol, which is played in both Edor and Dmix.

Martin Hayes plays this in Dmin and calls it The Garden of Butterflies on "The Lonesome Touch". Roughly as follows.

X: 1
T: The Garden of Butterflies
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmin
ABA D3| ABA dcA|GEE cEE|GEE DEG|ABA D3|
ABA dcA|GEE cEE|1EDC D(3EFG:|2EDC DFA||
ddc A=Bc|~d3 dcA|GEE cEE|GEE DFA|
ddc A=Bc|~d3 dcA|GEE cEE|1EDC DFA:|2EDC D3||

Sorry, that should have been Dmix with an f major in the fourth and eighth bars of the second part. I must have been spending too much time in the garden with the butterflies.

I learnt this one in Dmix. It’s very similar to the Hag’s Purse https://thesession.org/tunes/926.

X: 1
T: Delaney’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
ABA ~D3|AFA dcA|GEE cEE|G2E DEG|
A2A DED|AFA dcA|GEE cEE|1 DED D2G:|
|:Adc AB/c/d|ecA dcA|GEE cEE|G2E DEG|
Adc AB/c/d|ecA dcA|GEE cEE|1 DED D2G||

Delaney’s (aka. Port Tíneatha)

See another transcription of the tune in Dmix: https://thesession.org/tunes/2899

It seems true that this is an old version of Walls of Liscarroll.

Litle Black Pig by Micho Russell

Played in Dmix here by Micho Russell from about 2.20…….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eC_MYp-5I&feature=related

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Little Black Pig

I heard this song on a youtube video, played by Micho Russell. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eC_MYp-5I ) The first song he plays is The Southwest Wind or Connie the Soldier on thesession.org. Russell’s playing helped to inspire to me starting learning the tin whistle, after playing Irish mandolin for 4 years. I was surprised that it was not on here, so I figured I would add it.

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Nice tune. Thanks, Patrick.

It’s adorable. I can totally see the little black pig trotting through the forest to this tune :-)

Setting #2

is just the version as played by Micho in that clip linked by the OP. Cute tune indeed.

Did you notice how the first time through The Little Black Pig Micho plays the B part of The Southwest Wind? Now whenever I play the wrong B part to a tune I have the perfect excuse-Micho did it.

Haha, yes! I only really realised when I attempted to transcribe his version though… so when done properly, you might get away with it anyway. :)

Little Black Pig???

NO, it’s not. That’s a completely different tune also called An Ghaoth Aniar-Aneas (The South-West Wind): https://thesession.org/tunes/373

The Little Black Pea

Scored from a recording on RTE of Micho Russell playing the tune. I have not been able to locate the tune anywhere, either in recorded or scored form. Micho played it in an AB structure, but I find it sounds just as good in the traditional AABB format.

Re: The Little Black Pea

More likely "The Little Black Pig". See "The Limestone Rock" recording.

From Sharon Shannon

Delaney’s jig

Seven settings

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