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'''BLUE GARTERS, THE'''. Irish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (O'Neill {1850}): AA'BB' (O'Neill {Krassen}). Paul de Grae remarks that the reel is not to be found in older collections, and suggests it may be a composition of O'Neill's source John McFadden<ref>Paul de Grae, "Notes to Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017.</ref>. He points out that the second strain is to be found in several tunes in different keys. A version of melody was recorded by Québec fiddler Joseph Allard in 1930 under the title "[[Reel de la tuque bleue]]," while Canadian 'down-east' style fiddler Don Messer later produced a similar variant called "[[Snowshoer's Reel (1) (The)]]."  
'''BLUE GARTERS, THE'''. Irish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (O'Neill {1850}): AA'BB' (O'Neill {Krassen}). Paul de Grae remarks that the reel is not to be found in older collections, and suggests it may be a composition of O'Neill's source John McFadden<ref>Paul de Grae, "Notes to Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017.</ref>. He points out that the second strain is to be found in several tunes in different keys. A version of melody was recorded by Québec fiddler Joseph Allard in 1930 under the title "<incipit title="load:tuque" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Reel de la tuque bleue">Reel de la tuque bleue</incipit>," while Canadian 'down-east' style fiddler Don Messer later produced a similar variant called "[[Snowshoer's Reel (1) (The)]]."  
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BLUE GARTERS, THE. Irish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (O'Neill {1850}): AA'BB' (O'Neill {Krassen}). Paul de Grae remarks that the reel is not to be found in older collections, and suggests it may be a composition of O'Neill's source John McFadden[1]. He points out that the second strain is to be found in several tunes in different keys. A version of melody was recorded by Québec fiddler Joseph Allard in 1930 under the title "<incipit title="load:tuque" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Reel de la tuque bleue">Reel de la tuque bleue</incipit>," while Canadian 'down-east' style fiddler Don Messer later produced a similar variant called "Snowshoer's Reel (1) (The)."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Chicago fiddler John McFadden, originally from County Mayo [O'Neill].

John McFadden



Printed sources : - O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 154. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1514, p. 280.

Recorded sources: -



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  1. Paul de Grae, "Notes to Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017.