Origins: mackilmoyle

Subject: RE: Origins: mackilmoyle
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 04:12 PM

here is the tune played in a medley by Vivian Williams...I recall hearing Mike Nelson speak of Vivian...hey, where is Miken??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0ZLXyovM8

from http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/9727

Also known as Tiddle Took Todfish.

Fiddler Graham Townsend recorded this as "Galop de Malbaie" and believed that Canadian Joe Bouchard composed it. According to Donna Hinds (who also calls it "Mackilmoyle Reel"), it is "very popular at New England dances" (this info from her book The Grumbling Old Woman).

Subject: Origins: Mackilmoyle Reel
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 04:31 PM

Tune origins, really. Hunt wants to know if there ever was a Mackilmoyle and if so, who, when, where? Mr. Google is no help!