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T: Wissahickon Drive
C: Liz Carroll
Q: 350
R: reel
Z:Transcribed by Bill Black
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: A
EFAB cBAB | f2 ef ecBA | F2 dF eFde | feef edBA |
EFAB cBAB | f2 ef eAce | fagf eAcA |1 BEGB A2 FA :|2 BEGB A2 ce ||
a2 ga baga | fAde fagf | eAce aece | aedc BEGB |
|1 a2 ga baga | fAde fagf | eAce aedc | BEGB A2 ce :|
|2 A2 ce ac'ba | fAde fagf |eAce aedc | BEGB A2 ||
WISSAHICKON DRIVE. Irish, Reel (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cranford, Perlman, Songer): AA’BB’ (Black). Composed by Chicago Irish-style fiddler Liz Carroll and named for a famous tree-lined winding city drive in northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which leads to the Commodore Barry Club, the site of many Irish music events in the city. Perlman (1996) notes it is one of the few contemporary tunes from the United States in circulation on Prince Edward Island.
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - fiddler Brenda Stubbert (b. 1959, Point Aconi, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) [Cranford]; Kenny Chaisson (b. c. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].
Printed sources : - Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 296, p. 159. Cranford (Brenda Stubbert’s Collection), 1994; No. 14, p. 6. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 107. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 210.
Recorded sources : - Glanlea Records CDLEA2001, The Abbey Céilí Band - "Bruach an tSuláin" (2000). Shanachie ASH 79053, Liz Carroll – “Cherish the Ladies” (1985). Wild Asparagus WA 003, Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads" (1990). Wild Asparagus WA 004, Wild Asparagus - "Call of the Wild" (1993). Brenda Stubbert - “House Sessions” (1992).
See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
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