The Houseboat jig

The key is actually F# dorian, but that wasn’t available as an option on the tune submission form. I used E major, which has the same sharps and flats, on Jeremy’s advice.

I transcribed this from the playing of Mick McAuley, from his album _An Ocean’s Breadth_, as heard on WGBH’s _A Celtic Sojourn_ radio program on May 20, 2006.

I was blown away by Mick’s rendition of this tune, and searched frantically for the sheet music, but couldn’t find it here or elsewhere on the ‘net. So I made the effort to transcribe it myself.

While there is a tune here at TheSession.org called the Houseboat, that one’s a reel while this one’s a jig, and musically they’re also completely different.

If you want to hear Mick’s playing yourself, the Celtic Sojourn podcast it was in is still available for download here as of today:

http://streams.wgbh.org/online/celt/celt_2006_05_20.mp3

and it looks like it should still be available for the next couple of months. Because the podcast is 3 hours of music encoded at 128kbps MP3, the download is 140MB, and is throttled, and seems to take about 15-20minutes on a broadband connection.

The key’s actually F#min, not F#dor, but F#min isn’t listed either.

Oh I beg your pardon, the 1st part is F#dor, but not the 2nd part. My bad.