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Thread #135305   Message #4161203
Posted By: Lighter
03-Jan-23 - 07:26 PM
Thread Name: Random Folk Reflections
Subject: RE: Random Folk Reflections
I'll post this here because it's "random," and the jig was mentioned above.

Indianapolis Journal (Nov. 17, 1889):

"Therre will be solos on the Irish pipes by Garrett O'Sullivan. He is known all over Ireland as 'the Kerry piper.' One selection which he plays never fails to excite the enthusiasm of his audience. It is an ancient Irish hunting tune called 'The Fox-chase,' introducing a description of the fox hunt, the meet of the huntsmen and hounds, the sound of the horns, the cry of the dogs, and the death of the fox, concluding with the fox-hunters' jig,"

Some eighty years later, I heard Irish piper Finbar Furey introduce his performance on vinyl in almost exactly the same words.