I’m working on the march Lord Mayo, and then this tune (of which I can only remember the very beginning) pops into my head: http://www.box.net/shared/zckhy7armx
I’m not sure if it’s a variation on Lord Mayo or another march…and I think it may have been the Chieftans or Matt Malloy who recorded it, but I can’t find it in my CD collection - either that or I’m wrong about who recorded it.
Obviously, I don’t really know this tune, and quickly recorded it on my netbook, so I apologize for the poor recording quality…but it ought to be good enough for someone to ID it.
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I’m not really sure at all here, but it sounds similar to Pulling Bracken on Conal 'Grada’s album Cnoc Bui. I’m guessing based on what I heard here though! Good luck.
You should play it into http://www.tunepal.org and it will give you the most likely name for the tune. From there you can look it up on http://www.thesession.org and it may give you alternate names, versions, etc.
Same here. What it reminds me of gets played hereabouts in polka, strathspey, and jig forms, and also gets called “Cutting Ferns” and “Tha Mi Sgith”. If it’s also called Lord Mayo by some, I’m unaware of it, which isn’t to say it isn’t.
Here’s a setting (à la Joanie Madden) of the tune I call “Lord Mayo” (YouTube). This version sticks close enough to what’s in O’Neill’s 1850 by the same name in the Airs section, if you don’t mind the rather…um…cinematic treatment (ignore the bridge, of course ). Sons of Erin on the High Chaparral!
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