Annotation:Letterkenny Frolic

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X:1 T: Letterkenny Frolic, The S: Andrew MacIntyre (Donegal) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, vol. 1, No. 1, 1904, p. 36 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D FDFA dcBA|Beef e2e2|FDFA dcBA|f2e2 d4:| f2df gfed|ceAe ceAe|f2 df gfeg|f2e2d4| f2 df gfed|ceAe ceAe|fefg agfe|f2e2 d4||

LETTERKENNY FROLIC, THE. Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Donegal. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Collected in 1904 by Padraig Mac Aodh O'Neill from the playing of Andrew MacIntyre (1877-1959) of Ballymore, Donegal, and published in the Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society for that year with the note: "This tune is very well known all over Donegal." Francis O'Neill also noted the tune was well-known throughout the county at the time, however, Caoimhin Mac Aoidh (Between the Jigs and Reels, 1994) remarks that it is hardly played today.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Milligan-Fox & Hughes, Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 1904; p. 36.

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