”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:||
This jig comes from the playing of John Williams, a great concertina and accordion player from Chicago, whose father came from Doolin. John spent a lot of time in Doolin over the years, but I learned this particular tune from a YouTube video.
“The Little Black Pig” is a version of the well known jig “The Walls of Liscarrol”. I learned this tune from the playing of Doolin’s own Micho Russell.
Maybe more common as a Hop Jig, I learned this Slip Jig version of “Comb Your Hair And Curl It” from Altan’s album “The Blue Idol”.
