Annotation:Pier of Bowmore (The)
X:1 T:Peir of Bowmore, The C:H. Currie M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig B:Alexander Mackay – A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes… B:Chiefly composed by Alexander Mackay, Musician Islay (c. 1822, p. 11) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487947 N:Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Elinor Campbell of Islay and Shawfield. N:Mackay was born c. 1775 and was a fiddler-composer from Islay. Many of his N:tune titles are reflect Islay settings. N:Printed in Glasgow by J. MacFadyen, 30 Wilson St. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d2d d2B AFD|d3 e2g f2e|d2d d2B AFD|(E2F) G2A B2A:| |:FGA (D2A) F2D|FGA D2=c B2A|FGA D2A F2D|.E2.F .G2.A B2A:|]
PIER OF BOWMORE, THE. AKA - "Peir of Bowmore." Scottish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The composition "Peir [sic] of Bowmore" is credited to H. Currie in Islay fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Mackay's Collection of Reels, Strathspey and Slow Tunes, printed in Glasgow around 1822. It was composed after 1768 when the village of Bowmore, the first grid-system village in Scotland, was created and the populace from the former village of Killarrow waa moved across Loch Indaal to the new location. The pier at Bowmore is a stone pier jutting into Bowmore harbor. In Scots Gaelic, the English word pier translates as Laimrig, which was the name given by the Bowmont distillery to a single malt whisky of smoky/peaty style.
