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LARRY REDICAN'S BOW. AKA - "Gerrity's Reel," "The Gerrity Reel," "Gavin's," "Redican's Bow." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. This tune is associated with fiddler, banjo player and composer Larry Redican (1908-1975), a musician born in Boyle, Roscommon who emigrated to the New York in 1928. The "Redican's Bow" title was given to the tune by fiddler Seamus Connolly as a tribute to Redican's unique bowed triplets. In New York, it was known to Andy McGann as "Mary Claflin," a title that was a tribute to a friend of Redican's. A source older than Redican, however, was the fiddler John Gerrity, who recorded a setting of this tune in the key of G in October 1920. The side was issued by O'Byrne-DeWitt as "Gerrity's Reel" and on Columbia under the title "Gerrity Reel." "Professor" Gerrity recorded some solo sides as well as duets with piper Tom Ennis and melodeonist P.J. Conlon. He led a band that played for Irish dancing at the Mayo Halls in New York in the late 1920s.

Source for notated version: Phillip Duffy (b. London, 1966, since to County Sligo) [Flaherty]; the Gavins of Ballina [O'Malley].

Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 186, p. 98. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1991; p. 34 (appears as "unknown"). O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music), 1976; No. 13 (as "Gavin's").

Recorded sources: Columbia E7084 78 rpm (1920), John Gerrity, as "Gerrity Reel." Green Linnett GLCD 1987, Seamus Connolly – "Notes From My Mind" (1988) as "Larry Redican's Bow." Rounder Records, Tim Britton – "Light Through the Leaves" (appears as "Redigan." Learned from Jimmy Devine in Philadelphia).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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-'''LARRY REDICAN'S BOW'''. AKA - "The Gerrity Reel," "[[Gavin's]]," "[[Redican's Bow]]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. This tune is associated with fiddler Larry Redican (1908-1975), a multi-talented musician born in Boyle, Roscommon, who emigrated to the New York in 1928. The "Redican's Bow" title was given to the tune by fiddler Seamus Connolly as a tribute to Redican's unique bowed triplets. In New York, it was known to Andy McGann as "Mary Claflin," a title that is a tribute to a friend of Redican's. A source older than Redican, however, was the fiddler John Gerrity, who recorded a setting of this tune in the key of G on a 1920 Columbia disc under the title "Gerrity Reel."
+'''LARRY REDICAN'S BOW'''. AKA - "Gerrity's Reel," "The Gerrity Reel," "[[Gavin's]]," "[[Redican's Bow]]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. This tune is associated with fiddler, banjo player and composer Larry Redican (1908-1975), a musician born in Boyle, Roscommon who emigrated to the New York in 1928. The "Redican's Bow" title was given to the tune by fiddler Seamus Connolly as a tribute to Redican's unique bowed triplets. In New York, it was known to Andy McGann as "Mary Claflin," a title that was a tribute to a friend of Redican's. A source older than Redican, however, was the fiddler John Gerrity, who recorded a setting of this tune in the key of G in October 1920. The side was issued by O'Byrne-DeWitt as "Gerrity's Reel" and on Columbia under the title "Gerrity Reel." "Professor" Gerrity recorded some solo sides as well as duets with piper Tom Ennis and melodeonist P.J. Conlon. He led a band that played for Irish dancing at the Mayo Halls in New York in the late 1920s.
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