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Willie Coleman was a fiddler from Kilavil, County Sligo, called Coleman Country as it was also the birthplace of the famous fiddler Michael Coleman. Willie was a member of the Glenview Ceili Band with local musicians Peter Horan, Fred Finn and Dick Brennan, among others. A story is told that at Coleman’s funeral fiddler Martin Wynne was in attendance, standing next to Sligo musician Sonny McDonagh when they unveiled Coleman’s headstone with “Willie Coleman’s Jig” on it. Wynne leaned over to Sonny and whispered, “I actually wrote that tune.”
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Source for notated version : - flutist Matt Molloy (Ireland) [Breathnach]; flute player Harry McGowan (b. 1937, Carrowmore, County Sligo) [Flaherty]; Tony Smith (County Cavan & Dublin) [Mulvihill]; a recording of Sligo fiddler Andrew Davey (1928-2005) [Miller & Perron].
Printed sources : - Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 11, pg. 6. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, vol. 1, No. 59, pg. 22. Cranitch (Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; No. 20, pg. 132. Cranitch (Irish Session Tunes: Red Book), 2000; 20. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; pg. 160. Mallinson (Enduring), 1995; No. 32, pg. 13. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 3, No. 54. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; pg. 43. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 30, pg. 71.
Recorded sources : - Mulligan Records LUN 004, "Matt Molloy" (1976).
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