Annotation:Séamus Connolly's Jig (2)

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SÉAMUS CONNOLLY’S JIG [2]. AKA – “McKenna’s Jig.” AKA and see "O'Meara's." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by the late County Tipperary fiddler Seán Ryan (d. 1985), included in his collection The Hidden Ireland. Seamus Connolly, who won the All-Ireland fiddle championship in 1961 and 1963. He is now director of Boston College’s famed Irish music program. A different tune than “Seamus Connolly’s Jig [1]."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - “based partly on the playing of Paddy Reynolds (1920-2005) of (Staten Island,) New York, who used it to accompany step dancers” [Miller & Perron].

Printed sources : - Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 1), 1977; No. 49 (appears as “McKenna’s Jig”). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 22. Ryan (The Hidden Ireland), 11.

Recorded sources: -Shanachie Records 29002, Kathleen Collins – “Traditional Music of Ireland” (1976).

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