Ok. I am assured that this is really a tune. As our local pub serves Badger Ales it would be great to get the music for this tune. A google search turned up rather interesting answers but no music. Can anybody help?
I believe this is the same reel known as Cathal McConnell’s.
Best,
–James
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X:1
T: Cathal McConne’s
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
dG~G2 d3G|(3Bcd eB dcAB|cF~F2 c3A|(3Bcd eB dBAB|
dG~G2 d3G|(3Bcd eB dcAG|FGAd ~f3e|fdcA G2Bc:|
|:dggf g2bg|dg~g2 agfe|dffe f2fe|defg agfe|
dggf g2bg|dg~g2 agfg|bg~g2 agfe|defd cABc:|
Thank you very much. Sounds quite tricky and reminds me of a tune called Meggy’s Foot. The horse occasionally stumbles and the music misses a note. A lovely tune.
The tune I know as the Farting Badger [a name applied by Bobby Casey] ios the tune known as ‘Tommy Peoples’. That doesn’t help ofcourse but it’s the tune that opens the very first Mairead ni M./Frankie Kenedy recording as well as ‘In Good Company’.
Cryn out loud, just how many Tommy People’s reels are there anyhoo?
Peter, are you referring to the very famous one that Altan plays that starts in B minor on a b roll, stays there for the tune then resolves down to D major for the turn? They use the tune in a lot in in the liveIreland promo.
I heard it called Jenny Nettles but not the gassy weasel…sigh…names just don’t matter. All reels and jigs should be entitled “the one that goes like this”.
James’s version is close to the one Scoiltrad teaches as one of their “advanced” whistle lessons, but the Scoiltrad version is even funkier and edgier. Their arrangement is copyrighted so I can’t/won’t post it for you. I like it, though.
Tommy Peoples is a bad Anglicization of “Gan ainm,” perhaps. 
Stuart
On 2002-12-16 11:33, The Weekenders wrote:
Cryn out loud, just how many Tommy People’s reels are there anyhoo?Peter, are you referring to the very famous one that Altan plays that starts in B minor on a b roll, stays there for the tune then resolves down to D major for the turn? They use the tune in a lot in in the liveIreland promo.
I heard it called Jenny Nettles but not the gassy weasel…sigh…names just don’t matter. All reels and jigs should be entitled “the one that goes like this”.
No, 'enders, I don’t think Altan as such has recorded it. It’s on the very first CD, called Ceol Aduaidh, by Frankie Kennedy and Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh.
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It’s also the first reel on Kevin Crawford’s In Good Company (with Sean Smyth), and I’ve seen it listed as “Farting Badger” on one of my CDs, but I can’t think which one it was, off hand.
/bloomfield
[ This Message was edited by: Bloomfield on 2002-12-16 12:12 ]
Liam O Flynn used the name last year when he played the tune at the Micho Russell memorial concert. A Seamus Ennis like explanation could be that the sound picture goes G2 BG cGBG [the animal’s feet tripping through the grassy meadow]followed by the loud AD ~D2 cranning sound described in the title.
If someone could make a sound clip of this tune I would be most grateful. I still haven’t managed to learn ABC.
Badgers?,badgers?-We don’t need no steenkin’ Badgers!!!(sorry 'bout that! 'treasure of the Sierra Madre’is one of my favourite films,every time it’s shown on t.v. i wait for the ‘badges’ scene! PS-bags i ‘Stinking Badgers’ as a band name! >typo<
[ This Message was edited by: kevin m. on 2002-12-16 15:53 ]
What a coincidence; I was just on my way to Taco Bell!
[ This Message was edited by: WyoBadger on 2002-12-16 14:07 ]
Ava, this is too funny. You can do all this computery stuff but not abc?? Email me and I will teach you. Its simple and the software does all the work.
I would, Weeky, but your email’s not listed. So you first. 
Thanks!
On 2002-12-16 14:07, WyoBadger wrote:
What a coincidence; I was just on my way to Taco Bell!
After that email you sent to Susan about fast food?? I doubt it! More likely you’re out hunting skunk, or gathering wild beans or something!
See you in a week and a half, bud!
On 2002-12-15 20:05, selkie wrote:
A google search turned up rather interesting answers but no music.
Boy howdy, Selkie… was that the understatement of the year, or what?! 
Andrea ~*~
off to learn a new tune!
Andrea ~*~
Never mind Badgers wind. My house polecat woke me this morning by escaping from his cage and scaring the cat who sleeps on my feet. The cat hissed at Kenny the ferret and the sudden whiff of ferret glands being released in terror woke me. I think the best version of the music here is the one peeplj posted as when I printed it out in midi it had the exact ornamentation written down which is was excellent to learn from.
Just come across this discussion. I’d heard the title “The Farting Badger” in the 80s at the Willie Clancy school, but never found anyone who played it. It was associated with session players from Belfast and the Northern counties. This April, at Hammy’s flute meeting, Harry Bradley mentioned it as a name given in Belfast to the “Concertina Reel”, because of the repeated “cranning” on high “D” notes in the 2nd part. That at least has some logic behind it, so I believe it’s an alternative title to the “Concertina”.
And would you be the ferret that selkie speaks of? 
kenny the ferret is a close personal friend.
Based on her story, I wouldn’t get too close.