The Fairy jig

This is my current favourite tune, learnt off John Blake, Lamond Gillespie, and Mick Leahy’s second trio album. They inform that the jig appears on the Joyce Collection and that 19th century Galway piper Paddy Conneely is cited as the source there. A bit of research shows that it’s also on the O’Neill (no.319). A little different and less playable too.

thanks for submitting this lovely tune. The version is great and can be listen to here:
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Angelina Carberry plays a lovely version of this tune with her father on Memories from the Holla. Thanks for submitting it slainte.

I was thinking that John Blake learnt this jig from the Carberrys. Paddy, is this basically the same version they recorded? And could you inform where they got it?

Thanks for reminding me, Swisspiper. It can be more compact: http://www.myspace.com/humoursofhighgate

X: 1
T: The Pooca
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
D: Peter Carberry, Angelina Carberry & John Blake - Memories From Holla
K: Gmaj
dBA ~B3|GBd gab|age dBG|BAG Age|
dBA ~B3|GBd gab|age dBA|BGG Gge:|
|:ded deg|aba aga|bge edB|BAG Age|
dBA ~B3|GBd gab|age dBA|BGG Gge:|

Banjo is going |GBd gab| in bar 2. Box is holding on that top G |GBd g3|.

Yeah, it’s pretty much the same version.

Have you got the sleeve notes, Dow?

No, but check your e-mail.

Cheers. So they tuned down their instruments.

The last jig of Track 15 from "Reelin’in Tradition" by The Mulcahy Family, where it is called Paddy Conneely’s.
https://thesession.org/recordings/3406