“The Five Mile Chase” is a great session tune, and it usually comes after “The Boys of Ballisodare“. I associate this set with Christy Barry and James Devitt.
X:1
T:Five Mile Chase, The
R:reel
M:4/4
K:G
G2BG dGBG|FADA FADA|G2BG dG (3Bcd|egfa gedB|
G2BG dGBG|FADA FADA|G2BG dG (3Bcd|egfa ~g3f||
gd (3Bcd ed (3Bcd|g2bg agef|gd (3Bcd ed (3Bcd|egfa ~g3f|
gabg efge|dedB BABd|~e3f edBd|egfa gedB||
“John Kimmel’s” is a jig I learned from my friend Geneviève Lambert, an accordion player in Switzerland. It is also known as “The Jig of Dead” and is associated with John J. Kimmel, famous accordion player in America in the early 1900s.
Lord Leitrim is a barndance written by the great composer Charlie Lennon for his brother Ben Lennon, who sadly passed away in 2020. I learned this tune from Tony O’Connell at the Concertina Cruinniu in Miltown Malbay back in 2014. Tony recorded this barndance with Ben Lennon himself on their great album Rossinver Braes.
“The Green Fields of Rossbeigh” has been one of my favourite tune for a very long time! I learned it from my friend Stéphane, when he used to work in the Traditional Music Shop in Doolin. I also associate this tune with accordion player Seán Vaughan.
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