Annotation:Joe Cassidy's Hornpipe

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JOE CASSIDY'S HORNPIPE. Irish, Hornpipe. Ireland, County Donegal. A close relative of "Humors of Castle Bernard (The)," which also shows some similarities with James Hill's famous hornpipe "High Level Hornpipe (1)," according to Caoimhin Mac Aoidh (1994). Joe Cassidy, whose hey-day with in the mid-20th century, was a grandson of Jimmy Peoples, master fiddler and scion of the famous fiddling family, from whom he learned to play.

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