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17 Jul 11 - 04:31 PM (#3189623) Subject: Origins: Mackilmoyle Reel From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Tune origins, really. Hunt wants to know if there ever was a Mackilmoyle and if so, who, when, where? Mr. Google is no help! |
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18 Jul 11 - 04:12 PM (#3190241) Subject: RE: Origins: mackilmoyle From: open mike 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). |