”The Shoemaker’s Fancy” is a jig that I learned from Yvonne Casey & Terry Bingham at a session in McGann’s Pub. It also features on a great CD called “The Humours of Highgate” by John Blake, Lamond Gillespie & Mick Leahy, which is one of my favourite albums.
X:1
T:Shoemaker’s Fancy (The)
R:jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Gmaj
|:GEE G2e|dBB dBA|GEE G2e|dBA B2A|
GEE G2e|dBB def|gba gfe|1 dBA ABA:|2 dBA A2B||
|:dBB gfe|dBB B2e|dBd gfe|dBA A2B|
dBB gfe|dBB def|gba gfe|dBA A2B:||
“John McHugh’s Jig” is a very common session tune here in Doolin. I learned it at one of the Super Sunday sessions in O’Connor’s Pub with Noel O’Donoghue, Sean Vaughan and Hugh Healy. It is part of one of my favourite set, which is associated with the Kilfenora Ceili Band.
This is a common session which I love very much. I learned “The Drunken Landlady” through various sessions, but it’s really a tune that I associate with the amazing duet album of Noel Hill & Tony Linnane.
I learned this “Con Cassidy’s Slide” from the playing of Derek Hickey & Liam Flanagan. They recorded it on the fantastic compilation album from the Corofin Trad Festival “Teach Cheoil”.
