“The Kerryman’s Daughter” is one of my favourite tunes. I associate this reel with Sean Vaughan (and learned it from a recording I made of a gig I played with Sean and Noel O’Donoghue). Anytime he plays this tune feels like it’s party time! Great tune, thanks Sean!
X:1
T:Kerryman’s Daughter, The
M:4/4
R:Reel
K:Cmaj
G2GE GAcd|egdB cAAc|G~E3 GAcd|egdB c2cA|
G~E3 GAcd|egdB cAAc|G~E3 GAcd|egdB c2cd||
|:e~g3 eaa2|gedB cAAc|e~g3 eaa2|gabg a2ag|
e~g3 eaa2|gedB cAAc|G~E3 GAcd|1 egdB c2cd:|2 egdB c2cA||
I learned “The Maid in the Meadow” from Yvonne Casey’s first album. It is a great tune that you hear a good bit in sessions in the area. This reel is also sometimes called “The Dream of Home”, as collected by Breandán Breathnach.
“The Heather Breeze” is one of the most common reel in sessions across Ireland. It is a very old tune which I have learned through sessions, but I associate it with Micho Russell and his brothers Packie and Gussie. They recorded it on the album “The Russell Family”.
I learned “Fanning’s Jig” from the playing of Jackie Daly, who recorded it on his album “Many’s A Wild Night”. The ABC says it is in E minor but it really is a G / E minor tune. I recorded this tune as part of a set of jigs I did for the #quarantunes challenge on Facebook, see video below.
