Annotation:Up Sligo (1)

Back to Up Sligo (1)

---

UP SLIGO [1]. AKA and see "Basket of Turf,” “Bundle and Go (3),” “Creel of Turf (2) (The),” "Cliab Móna (An)," “Disconsolate Buck (The),” “The Green Meadow,” “The Lark’s March,” "Lass from Collegeland (The)," “Sligo Lassies,” “Unfortunate Rake (1) (The),” “Wandering Harper (The),” “Wee Wee Man.” Irish, Jig. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Miller & Perron): AABB’ (DeMarco & Krassen). The first in a pair of jigs (with "Whiskey and Brandy") recorded in New York by Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman, under the single title “Up Sligo.” Source for notated version: composite from John Vesey and John McGreevy [DeMarco & Krassen].

Source for notated version:

Printed Sources: DeMarco & Krassen (Trip to Sligo), 1978; pp. 26, 40, 54. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 3, No. 21. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 22. O’Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 48 (appears as “The Unfortunate Rake”).

Recorded sources: Intrepid Records, Michael Coleman. John & James Kelly – “Irish Traditional Music.” Shanachie Records, John Vesey. “Kevin Burke in Concert.”

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2]

---