View source for Annotation:Let's Have a Ceilidh

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|f_annotation='''LET'S HAVE A CEILIDH.''' AKA and see "[[Maids of Ardagh]]." Canadian, Polka. Canada, Prince Edward Island. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is attributed to British musician D.K. Finlay who gave the tune the name "Swing o' the Kilt." The "Let's Have a Ceilidh" title is from a song by the Alexander Brothers, and is the name of a dance in Cape Breton/P.E.I.  However, the tune is a member of a large and varied tune family, many of whose titles were collected in a thread on the Bob Dunsire bagpipe forum [http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-124032.html]: "[[Liberton Boys (The)]]" ( also an arrangement by Peter McLeod Jnr. 5 parts. John Wallace acknowledged as composer ), "[[Liberton Polka (The)]]," "[[Liberton Boys Pipe Band]]" (formed 1883 at Dr Guthrie's Ragged School, Liberton, Edinburgh), "[[Liberton Pipe Band]]," "[[Liberty Boys (The)]]," "[[Piper's Polka (The)]]," "[[Polish Polka]]" (Michael Turner's MS,Sussex c1841-51), "[[Old Country Polka]]" ( appears in an early fiddle MS), "[[Sligo Polka]]" (1st part), "[[Tuar Mor Polka (2)]]," "[[Tourmore Polka (2)]]," "[[Toormore]]," "[[Miss Mense's Polka]]," "[[Mrs Carter Menzies Polka]]," "[[Captain Menzies]]," "[[Kilberry Ball Polka (The)]]" ( parts 3 and 4, composed PM Robert Meldrum), "[[Sliabh Mhachaire]]," "[[Johnny Leary's]]," "[[Ballyscadden]]," "[[Back o' the Haggard]]," "[[Ta Boinead Agam]]," "[[Green Hills of Dublin (The)]]" (Reel version), "[[Maids of Ardagh]]," "[[I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue]]," "[[Caubeen Trimmed with Blue]]" (or Caubeen), "[[Swing o' the Kilt]]," "[[London Irish Rifles (The)]]"
"[[Miss Campbell's Polka]]" (parts 1 and 2), "[[Come to Fiona's Wedding]]" (comp Finlay Hayes), "[[McKay's Polka]]" (parts 1 and 2)
"[[Toberua Marriage Walk]]" (Played by Fiji Piper (member of these Forums) and Stuart Cheyne at the wedding of Billy Connelly, on Toberua, Fiji), "[[Dr. Guthrie's Polka]]" (5th and 6th part added by J. Montague, harmony added throughout, and named so as to keep the history of the tune circulating for the future), "[[Irish Two Step (The)]]."
|f_source_for_notated_version=Attwood O'Connor (b. 1923, Milltown Cross, South Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
|f_printed_sources=Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island'''), 1996; p. 161.
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