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The Old Stage (slide)
This is the third slide from Jackie Daly on Patrick Street’s ‘Made In Cork’ CD:
The Midnight Ramble https://thesession.org/tunes/9831
The Bogman https://thesession.org/tunes/9834
The Old Stage
This tune is extremely like John Kelly’s Slide (https://thesession.org/tunes/2130) in the A part, but the B part is quite different.
The Old Stage (slide)
Just been looking throuigh the excellent book "300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty’ by Lesl Harker, and came across a slide called "Ta Mo Mhadra", which is another version of "The Old Stage". An alternative title is given as "Poor Nancy Died".
A Sung Version
On the Seamus Begley and Stephen Cooney album, "Meiteal," there’s a vocal part (in Irish) for the A section — very nice.
…as played by P.J. & Martin Hayes
Similar first part (though down in Em/G), different second part.
…and it’s called here Billy O’Rourke is the Buachaill.
The Old Stage, X:4
A version in Bminor, the key that this is played in by The Gloaming in The Opening Set.
The Old Stage = Paddy Canny’s jig
https://thesession.org/tunes/4839
The only difference being whether it’s considered to be a jig or a slide. I thing that in the Hayes’ album (The Shored of Lough Graney) it’s meant to be a jig. They call it "Billy O’Rourke is the Buachaill".
Re: The Old Stage
Irish Tune Info gives a bit more information on alternate names and recordings. Apparently the oldest recording they know of is from 1933:
https://www.irishtune.info/tune/3382/
And here’s a Newfoundland variant, called Up The Southern Shore:
https://thesession.org/tunes/15546