Looking for the dots…or the ABC’s, or an audio file. . .or a personal performance until my ear and whistle pick it up.
Many thanks,
Difficult to find under this name. Vincent Broderick wrote quite a few tunes, and they come up under various names. I couldn’t find any called a “barn dance”. What was your source of reference? Perhaps if you check some of the various tunes with Broderick’s name attached you’ll find the tune you’re looking for.
djm
Ty:
I have two barn dances attributed to Vincent Broderick. I found them at the time that Aodhan was looking for one of them.
One is called the New Broom and starts G2 GB d2 Bd|edBed2 BA| G2
the other is Around the Faery Fort and goes: DE|F2F2FEDF|A2A2A2FA|
You might search with these names.
John Skelton plays “Around the Fairy Fort” (yes, by Vincent Broderick) on volume 1 of “Wooden Flute Obsession”. A live college performance.
Kevin Krell
Tyghress,
Both these tunes are transcribed in the Turoe Stone book. Faery is spelt Fairy in the book.
If you can’t find it in abc or whatever, let me know and I’ll scan the page for you.
Ken
The](http://thesession.org/tunes/index.php%22%3EThe) Session has abc files for both.
Around The Fairy Fort/New Broom work well together as a set.
Eddie
Around the Fairy Fort was it. . .many thanks!
The ‘source’ was someone in session who just called it Broderick’s Barndance and claimed I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’m torn between playing it the next time I see them and claiming I learned it from the one listening, or giving the real story and cashing in on the whiskey bet.
Nice jaunty tune, isn’t it?
Yeah, I can imagine dancers doing something special on each of those three quarter notes, like clapping or stamping their feet or something. Having never seen a Barn dance realized, I don’t really know what they do. But its the only barn dance I have seen with that figure.
I really like James Gannon’s bd too, but my band is too kewl/angry to do any of em… They won’t do strathspeys either.