Annotation:John Roche's Favourite
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHN ROCHE'S FAVOURITE. AKA and see "Blue Bonnets," "Frank Roche's Favourite," "Here Awa'," "Lady Ann Hope (1)," "Tiger Hornpipe," "Woodford Fling (1) (The)." Irish, Fling. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Either the father or the brother of Frank Roche, who compiled the collection. The "Woodford Fling" title comes from Jack and Fr. Charlie Coen's album "The Branch Line" (1978), where the tune is the second in a set entitled "Woodford Flings", a reference to flings played in their home town of Woodford, County Galway.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2), 1912; No. 285, p. 35.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]