What's your favourite jig?

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: hesperis
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 12:26 AM

Swallowtail Jig.

But that's the only one I know, and now I'm going to have to look all these up, and see if my friend and I can play 'em!

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: DanMulligan
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 12:42 AM

"the Lark In The Morning" is my favorite ... "The Butterfly" is my favorite slip jig. They are both very pretty and light sounding I think.

I also must say that I enjoy every other jig mentioned here. (with the exception of "the Washerwoman"...it is so overplayed around St. Pats day isn't it?) Dan

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Noreen
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 11:18 AM

Yes Shambles, the long ones suit you- keep the knees covered! :0)

Noreen

BTW Good tune!

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 11:42 AM

I did mean the long jigs, not the britches! *Smiles*

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 11:48 AM

King of the Pipers MP3 by Cianan.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 11:56 AM

Frieze Britches MP3 by Nolan Patrick.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 12:01 PM

If you click MP3 and put the tune title in the search box, You may be able to hear a version of it.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 12:19 PM

A few more that deserve mention:

The Mist-Covered Mountain
Scatter the Mud
Tom Billy's Jig
Behind the Haystack

There's tons of jigs going through my head right now but the names escape me on a lot of them. I believe the Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife (A couple of times we played Merrily in combination with Haystack so that we could announce the title as Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife Behind The Haystack), but apart from Merrily, does anyone have any faverite slides? I like the second of the "Dan O'Keefe's Slides" recorded on Padraig O'Keefe and Julia Clifford's "Star above the Garter", for one.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 02:44 PM

Kathleen O' Herir.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 03:09 PM

I have to agree with Shambles on that selection.

Jon

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 03:32 PM

Shambles or Jon - do you have the dots for that, or a MIDI? (Can't find it at JC's Tunefinder.) Ta!

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 04:00 PM

It is there Jeri as Kathleen Hehir's Slide. I just searched for "Kathleen".

Jon

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 04:02 PM

Haven't heard it (at least under that name)
Rich

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 04:59 PM

Thanks Jon!

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 03:21 PM

Never heard of Calliope House before. Luckily there are 47 matches in JC's tunefinder.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 04 Nov 00 - 01:14 PM

There's one called Port Seán Seosamh (John Joseph's Jig) that I've also heard labeled as Old Joe's Jig. It was confusing til I realized that if you left out the fada in Seán it would be sean (old) and it's one of the few adjectives that appears before the subject in Irish. (ie; seanbhean, seanduine) Besides demonstrating the importance of punctuation, it's just really a cool tune.

Thanks for bringing this thread back.

Slán,
Rich

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Nov 00 - 03:15 PM

Given that these tunes can be known by many titles, it may be a good idea to provide a link in this thread to enable folk to hear the tune you like?

Maybe those that know how to do this can find sound files for the tiles mentioned so far?

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: Ely
Date: 05 Nov 00 - 01:38 PM

Is "Black Nag" a jig or a hornpipe? (I have a terrible time telling the two apart because the strum is the same on the dulcimer and I don't like playing rhythm guitar with Irish music). Always liked it, but I can't tell if it's 6/8 or 2/4.

Subject: RE: What's your favourite jig?
From: GUEST,Cedar
Date: 23 Jul 11 - 09:34 PM

Pretty sure it's some kind of jig - it's in 12/8, so I think that makes it a single jig.