Super, super playing! I’m gonna have to learn that one. Nice to hear solid flute players playing whistle, too.
There used to be loads of names for that one , Martin Talty’s is one I remember but Kelly named it ‘The Meelick Team’ himself.
Yes, I keep forgetting that, and I should remember because the Meelick Team was a hurling team after all 
I learned this jig from Éilís Crean, who along with her brother was one of Eddie Kelly’s two students after he moved to Roscommon from East Galway. Kelly played box and fiddle; Éilís learned the fiddle and her brother learned the box. Apparently Kelly was very particular about the melody – the B part is played differently each time through, a subtlety that got shaved off when people started playing it in sessions, apparently he used to get quite steamed about it.
a thousand times
Wow, I’m among the guilty; have I been butchering that poor tune. I got it from the Moving Cloud and Dervish versions and have probably “elided” the B part even further in my scattershot way … those B part nuances and “other than the obvious A” note choices would never have occurred to me.
It’s brilliant. And as always, delightfully played. Thank you, Brad!
I saw Kelly play (the fiddle) a few times during the 80s, once as part of a Comhaltas tour group dressed in one of those awful costumes they make them wear on tour. In fairness the ‘Meelick Team’ name has been around only for the past five years and I have always known the tune as ‘Eddie Kelly’s’ before. I learned both the Kelly jigs off Dolores Keane’s recording Sail og Rua at the time, Jackie Small playing the box there.
Paddy Fahey’s Jig as notated by Peter above.
The White Petticoat - an old favourite of mine, seems to be little known these days - no-one ever seems to have it at sessions. No.38 in Krassen’s edition of O’Neill’s. ABC on Fiddlers’ Companion here.
Ah!, Eddie Kelly’s is one of my favourite jigs at present - I like to play it after the An Poirt Ard - the High Jig, which I play lower down in E, if yous know what I mean.
I’ve been really interested in this thread and the clips - that version of Statia Donnelly’s is brilliant. I"ve always wanted to hear Conor Tully. He played the variation in the first part of the Paddy Fahy jig (or whatever it actually is) that I knew about but hadn’t heard anyone else do. That Eddie Kelly jig - great Brad, wow, I was given 2 versions by 2 different players, one with each of these 2 second parts. yeh! That Seamus Ennis clip was great btw thanks Peter.
I recently saw on u tube Catherine McEvoy doing that Paddy Fahy jig - or was it from this thread? If not - its here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2Z1JY3h9w (this is the clip with the joke about how flute players play a chord)
I"ve always wanted to hear Conor Tully
You don’t have his tape with Carty and Frank Hogan? tut tut. that’s a classic must have.
I’m loving this thread, too. Thank you!!!
Peter, is that Carty’s “Traditional Music of Ireland” recording (I mix up the titles between that one, with Conor Tully, and “Traditional Irish Music” – with Mick O’Connor – 
) --i.e., the one with the ‘Whistler of Rosslea’ on it?
Sorry. I’ve never been able to keep them straight in my shrinking brain.
It only ever was out on cassette, the one with the pic of the boat, the lake and Loughrea across. And I had to dig it up now: ‘Traditional Music of Ireland’ and it starts with (I may as well throw in the clip) : Molly Bawn
I’ll look for it next week when I’m up there. Mike’s been telling me about him for years… I’m just slow. I have the other Paddy Carty one.
I did find this:
http://pasha.podbean.com/2007/05/29/stoney-stepsmaud-millar-paddy-carty/
nice fellow there, he seems to’ve put up 6 or 7 tracks!
Just heard Maeve Donnelly on the radio playing another Fahey tune that I sort of have in my head (from Fahey’s own playing):
T:Paddy Fahey’s
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Paddy Fahey
R:jig
Z:Peter Laban
K:D
DFA dcA|AGE AGE|DFA dcA|AGE =C3|!
A,DD EFG|AdB =cBc|dfd AFA|GEA D2:|!
A|DFA fed|dcA AGE|AGE DdB|=cBc GEC|!
A,DD EFG|AdB =cBc|dfd AFA|GEA D2 :||
She played ‘the Waddling Gander’ after it. A tune I learned some weeks ago from one of my piping pupils. I had forgotten I learned it at all so it was a welcome reminder. Nice tune too, that.
I wrote this down hoping it would kill a terrible earworm that has been with me most of the day: around mid-day my son and I went up to Doolin to walk along the coast towards the Cliffs of Moher to take a few pictures of The Piper’s Chair (there’s a lovely picture in one of Jill Freedman’s books of Micho sitting in the Piper’s Chair playing a tune to the cows). As we were coming over Doonagore bog and got the view of the ocean, the Islands and the Connemara mountains, Clare Fm played Johnny Cash singing ‘Ghostriders in the Sky’. I have been trying to get rid of that ever since. Yippie yi Ohhhhh Yippie yi yaaaaay
Maeve Donnelly was played on ‘Gracenotes’ which is available from the RTE/Lyric FM website for download (shows on saturday and sunday that stay up for a week. They also do live music at times: recordings from our ‘Masters of Tradition’ concerts in Bantry House were on some time ago.)