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I'm always running across cool Jigs!
I don't go looking for them, they just find me - and like a moth near a flame, I can't resist them!
I know there are others that feel the same, so maybe we can come up with a great collection here! 🤗 Feel free to add your favorites!
This first one is an O'Carolan Jig in Dm "Edward Corcoran" (aka Planxty Corcoran) - the link is sheet music at thesession.org. I'm a long time fan of O'Carolan tunes & this Jig is played by Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr - both fabulous English Folk Fiddlers! They also play "Black Joke" (aka Black Joak) - Jig, possibly a Morris tune.
Here's another minor Jig (Am) "Black Whiskey Hill" - literally a 'crooked' tune (6/8 & 9/8), composed by Nick Montemarano, fiddle played by Anna Levitt of Crooked, an Irish/BG/OT band from San Diego! They also play Elzic's Farewell, a Reel in Ador - cool history at thesession.org.
I still love Jackie Roche's Favorite (Thread link)!
- Emily
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like the black whiskey/elizic set! gotta love those unison note playing. always have like elizics farewell
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@ABitRusty -
Figured you'd like it - have you played Elzic's Farewell?
I have a hard time remembering all the tunes you've shared!
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i havent fiddled elzics . picked it on guitar a bit.
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It was ridiculously cold yesterday (with snow!), but bright & sunny today!
I'm still working on smoothing out Edward Corcoran, but here's a great jig I'm starting on for this time of year - by Paddy O'Brian, "The Coming of Spring" in Edor!
Here's TWO great Jigs (I only worked on the 1st today), "The Rock on The Clyde", in Em by Bobby MacLeod & "Tommy Mulhaire's" (aka. Rafferty's, Carolan's Fancy, etc...) by Tommy Mulhaire, in Edor - performed by Jayne Pomplas & Luke Deaton!
If you haven't noticed, I like medieval-sounding music and this Jig, "Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance", was a surprise & FUN! Strange old British, end-of-Summer ritual with reindeer antlers! Great tutorial by Chris Haigh, in Dm with a dropped G to A drone, but I like the Em version at thesession.org
...can't help but feel better playing a jig - even in a minor key!
- Emily
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Has anyone ever noticed how long Fergal Scahill's pinky finger is?
...I'm so envious!
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Okay, I've got the basic Edward Corcoran memorized, but... then I listened to this played by Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien!
Geez, like there isn't enough going on with this tune already, now I'm obsessed with all these fabulous variations! 😳
REALLY PREFER THE TEMPO IN THIS VIDEO, but even some of this gets a little crazy!
...guess there's no sense in rushin' it.
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You know I get obsessed with all my tunes - this one might be a bit too frolicky... but stuck in my head, so I'm learning it. 😁
This Scottish Jig is a hoot!
"Bung Your Eye" (aka, The Brisk Young Lads, plus more on The Session).
Sheet music & info from the Traditional Tune Archive - Bung Your Eye
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this!
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@ABitRusty -
Great jig! Great version!
Makes me think of Fraher's & Kilavil.
There's so many Irish Jigs I still want to learn, but also other 6/8 tunes that don't sound like them. I'll keep my new favorite 6/8 Marches over in the Scottish Piper Tunes Played on The Fiddle Thread.
Have a few new ones I want to target.
'John Nugent' & 'Bumper Squire Jones' (The Curious Bards) - both Turlough O'Carolan tunes! It's interesting that 'Bumper Squire Jones' shows up as a waltz at thesession.org, but certainly sounds better in 6/8 time!
"The Creggan White Hare" (Malachi Cush Music).
I think I could have a lot of fun trying variations for each verse of this song. Sheet music available at musescore. A lot of myths around white hares - several in Great Britain. Legend of the White Hare (Folkrealm Studies). More 'White Hare' legends in the UK from the Henfield Museum.
'The Corsican Fairy' (Blowzabella).
From NW England (c.1800) - interesting info about this tune at thesession.org.
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those are cool.
you may like this one. nice modal jig you may like. called 3 deers and a hare here. 1st one in the set
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@ABitRusty -
Both of those Jigs are really nice - "Three Deer and a Hare" and "An Pangur Ban"!
Just got hooked on this GIANT Jig, "The Old Grey Goose"- and it is followed here with the fabulous reel, "Paddy Canny's Toast"! Performed by Sorcha Costello.
🍀 St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner!
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@elcbk I learned the 3 deer...jig in a workshop recently called this.. 🙂 Instructor played through slow a few times before teaching. no sheet music and i transcribed after i got home. Found it odd i couldnt find by the title and searcged for everything with donkey. and the hare till i found the one you shared. this is him playing btw not me. apicture of what i transcribed. fairly easy to learn.
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Thank you!
Appreciate it!
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So, here it is, almost St. Patrick's day, again!
Seems I've been playing more Scottish/Cape Breton & English tunes than Irish ones this past year. In fact, more often than not, I've been finding much of the music I prefer (that I thought was Irish or English) has a Scottish origin! Think I'd like to start recognizing Scotland for it's great music history, instead of just lumping everything together & saying I like 'celtic' music.
Meant to learn this lengthy jig a few years back (Modal Scale/Keys Thread), but obviously got sidetracked - better late than never? ...started learning it, anyway.
"Knocknagow" (link is notation), played by Desi Donnelly.
If anyone hasn't seen it, cool silent film from 1918...
Knocknagow (1918)
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Your not wrong about the jig being lengthy, was looking at it on the session 😉 there were a couple of people on there saying that they thought it was actually a few jigs stitched together. Bit too long for me though, I would never memorise that
Cant beat a sunny day
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@stringy -
Yeah... I only 'started' on it, because I can't commit to the whole thing right now - too many other tunes I'd like to work on.
Figured I'd have to treat it as a set... maybe number the parts.
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Just got inspired by Mark Basamian's playing of 'Leckan Mor'!
Feels like a great Irish Jig to learn today! ...maybe I just wish it was warm enough outside for me to be wearing summer clothes & listening to the birds sing!
Leckan Mor is a Jig in B minor written by Cillian Vallely, the piper with the band Lunasa.
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Sidetracked like usual, I don't have all of 'Knocknagow' memorized, yet - but I will get to it.
Got a couple more jigs I'm excited about!
The Moth & The Exorcist and the 2nd tune is the Roscommon Jig! I sure get taken in by a cool name, and Alasdair White! 🤭
HOPVOTTE Set - 1st tune in the set has an infectious GROOVE... it's Shetland Sky (a hop jig!!!), and the other 2 tunes are: Gavotte (Giles le Bigot), and Mollard’s Gavotte!
Great Album you can find on Bandcamp!
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