The Fair Wind reel

This is Tamalin’s version to Fair Wind; Dervish also play in their "Out on the Road" set- it’s the third tune, after Repeal of the Union. They play it in G major, I think, and slightly different. But I prefer the John McSherry way, so… 🙂 Enjoy!

Good tune, I learned this in G. A works just as well. A real nice rattler on the Banjo.

A little nice tune. Easy to play yet very "dancant"(?)

DANSANT!

I love this little gem, I play it in D sometimes as well.

Belfast band "Tamalin" recorded it in A.

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T:A Fair Wind
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Dervish: "Midsunner’s Night"
R:reel
Z:g.m.p
K:G
~G3F ~G3A|BAGA BAAB|~G3E ~G3A|1BAGE EDDE:|2BAGE EDDc||
BcdB ~G3A|BcdB cAAc|BcdB ~G3A|1BAGE EDDc:|2BAGE EDDE||
GE~E2 ~c3A|BAGA BAAB|GE~E2 ~c3A|1BAGE EDDA:|2BAGE EDDE||

sounds a lot like "Rip the Calico", doesn’t it?

Err…so much so that I think it *is* Tear the Calico…well spotted!

i really like the third part

This does sound like Rip the Calico and yet definately is NOT Rip/Tear the Calico, at least not the Calico version the Bothy Band played.

The C-part of Fair Wind is the same as the B-Part in Rip the Calico, the other parts are different.

Compare: https://thesession.org/tunes/719

(The Fair WInd is also on Danu’s "Danu" album after Joe Bane’s.)

I always think it’s going to be this tune when it comes up in the session. It sounds almost identical until the third part.

https://thesession.org/tunes/1729

This tune is in G major and it’s also listed in A major.
I learned it from Jack Gilder’s lovely playing in A.
It does not come up when you input Fairwind—too bad.

A fun tune, It also appears on "Midsummers Night" by dervish

Thank you, Bobbi, very kind of you to say, but I play it in G.

Here’s a nice example from YouTube from a flute player in Spain who says he learned it from from Breandan O’Hare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4oyHsgGII

play video

We play this tune in G at our sessions in Wellington (NZ) but know it as Maeve’s Return… slight variation but pretty much the same.

BTCpz: If you make allowance for the different tonality (D rather than G) the 3rd part of this reel is virtually the same as the 2d part of Rip The Calico; https://thesession.org/tunes/719 ..you might like that tune too.

"For they have swallowed wind, and they shall rip the calico"
http://scripturetext.com/hosea/8-7.htm

I learned this tune from the Tannahill Weavers recording under the name "Mulhaire’s" or "The Rough Road", and for the longest time I couldn’t find it on the Session.

The Tannies play it in D, to fit the GHB, while the local session I go to sometimes has played it in G. I’ve submitted settings in both keys.