Annotation:Up Sligo (1)

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UP SLIGO [1]. AKA and see Basket of Turf,” “Bundle and Go [1],” “The Creel of Turf [2],” “Disconsolate Buck,” “The Green Meadow,” “The Lark’s March,” “Sligo Lassies,” “The Unfortunate Rake [1],” “The Wandering Harper,” “Wee, Wee Man.” Irish, Jig. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Miller & Perron): AABB’ (DeMarco & Krassen). The first in a pair of jigs 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.”