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Revision as of 04:41, 28 April 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
FATHER KELLY'S (REEL) [1]. AKA and see "Rossmore Jetty (The)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson): AABBCC (Flaherty). Galway cleric Father P.J. Kelly called this tune, his composition, "The Rossmore Jetty," named after a place he went swimming from as a child in Woodford, County Galway. The late (d. 2006), legendary Father Kelly spent time missioning in the South Pacific before returning to Ireland. The second part of the tune is similar to the third part of "Mulvihill's Reel (2)," also a Kelly composition from 1960, originally titled "Derry Craig Wood." See also Kelly's "Sliabh Aughty March" for a similar tune.
Source for notated version: tenor banjo player Tommny Finn (b. 1964, Marlow, Ballymote, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty]; Kerry Elkin (Massachusetts) [Songer].
Printed sources: Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, vol. 3, No. 1 (appears as "Father Kelly's No. 1"). Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 48. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 157, p. 48. Mallinson (100 Essential), 1995; No. 22, p. 9. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 78.
Recorded sources: Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads."
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]