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[[File:irishmusicclub.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Chicago's Irish Music Club, c. 1903. Michael Kissane is int the top row, 2nd from right.]][http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/afcnews-fall-2007.pdf] | [[File:irishmusicclub.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Chicago's Irish Music Club, c. 1903. Michael Kissane is int the top row, 2nd from right.]][http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/afcnews-fall-2007.pdf] | ||
''Source for notated version'': Kissane [O'Neill]. Michael Kissane was a member of the Chicago Music Club. He had been a student of blind fiddler Jeremiah Breen of North Kerry, and emigrated to the United States where he became a businessman, "and one of the best Irish fiddlers in the city" [O'Neill, 1913]. Curiously, O'Neill makes little further mention of him in his '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1903). | ''Source for notated version'': Kissane [O'Neill]. Michael Kissane was a member of the Chicago Music Club. He had been a student of blind fiddler Jeremiah Breen of North Kerry, and emigrated to the United States where he became a businessman, "and one of the best Irish fiddlers in the city" [O'Neill, 1913]. Curiously, O'Neill makes little further mention of him in his '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1903). In Chief Francis O'Neill's annual report of 1901 [http://chicagocop.lapa1961.com/resources/documents_archive/cpd_annual_reports/Chicago%20Police%20Department%20Annual%20Report%20-%201901.pdf] to the Chicago city council, a Michael Kissane is listed as a 4th precinct patrolman who was injured while on duty, but whether this is the same man is unknown. | ||
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UGLY CUSTOMER, AN (Rocdaire Granda). AKA and see “After the Hare.” Irish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. As "After the Hare" the reel was published in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). The tune also appears as an untitled reel in Brendan Breathnach’s Ceol Rince na hÉireann, vol. 2 (1976, No. 151).
Source for notated version: Kissane [O'Neill]. Michael Kissane was a member of the Chicago Music Club. He had been a student of blind fiddler Jeremiah Breen of North Kerry, and emigrated to the United States where he became a businessman, "and one of the best Irish fiddlers in the city" [O'Neill, 1913]. Curiously, O'Neill makes little further mention of him in his Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1903). In Chief Francis O'Neill's annual report of 1901 [2] to the Chicago city council, a Michael Kissane is listed as a 4th precinct patrolman who was injured while on duty, but whether this is the same man is unknown.
Printed sources: O’Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 127. O’Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 623, p. 113. O’Neill '(Music of Ireland), 1903; p. 1373.
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