Annotation:Larry Redican's Slip Jig (1)

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LARRY REDICAN'S SLIP JIG [1]. Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A composition of Irish-American fiddler and banjo player, Larry Redican [1] (1908-1975). Redican's own setting, which he titled "Let's Dance," was in the key of F with the first and second parts reversed from the setting shown here. This version was printed in Treoir magazine, Eanair/Fomhair (January-October) issue of 1970. Redican was born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon to flute playing parents but chose the fiddle and studied with Frank O'Higgins in Dublin before he emigrated to the United States in 1928. He worked for much of his life for the cosmetics company Estee Lauder in New York. Redican was a member of the New York Céili Band.

Source for notated version: Chicago accordion player Jimmy Keane [Black].

Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 258, p. 139.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF 1072, Mick Moloney - "Kilkelly."

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