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'''LUCY FARR'S.''' Irish, English; Barndance. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the late Galway-born (Baunyknave, Ballinakill) fiddler Lucy Farr (1910-2003), who lived in England from the year 1935, where she moved to take up a career in nursing. Farr, like Aggie Whyte a representative of the East Galway fiddling tradition, can be heard playing the tune on "Heart and Home," an archival recording from 1991-1992. In London she was a member of the Four Courts Ceili Band and the Rakes. The tune is also played in other keys; Mairtin O'Connor plays it in D Major. | '''LUCY FARR'S.''' Irish, English; Barndance. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the late Galway-born (Baunyknave, Ballinakill) fiddler Lucy Farr (1910-2003), who lived in England from the year 1935, where she moved to take up a career in nursing. Farr, like Aggie Whyte a representative of the East Galway fiddling tradition, can be heard playing the tune on "Heart and Home," an archival recording from 1991-1992. In London she was a member of the Four Courts Ceili Band and the Rakes. The tune is also played in other keys; Mairtin O'Connor plays it in D Major. | ||
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LUCY FARR'S. Irish, English; Barndance. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the late Galway-born (Baunyknave, Ballinakill) fiddler Lucy Farr (1910-2003), who lived in England from the year 1935, where she moved to take up a career in nursing. Farr, like Aggie Whyte a representative of the East Galway fiddling tradition, can be heard playing the tune on "Heart and Home," an archival recording from 1991-1992. In London she was a member of the Four Courts Ceili Band and the Rakes. The tune is also played in other keys; Mairtin O'Connor plays it in D Major.
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Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Celtic Crossings CD0299-02, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin & Patrick Ourceau - "Tracin" (1999). Green Linnett GLCD 1155, Martin Hayes -"Under the Moon" (1995). Old Hat Music OH!02, "The Old Hat Dance Band" (1992).
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