SCS 47
Anne Mason Annex
Bonnie Kate : techniques of a Sligo fiddler
/ Michael Gorman
- Folktracks [Folktrax], 1975.
- 1 audiocassette : analog
Cassette. Musical instruments: Fiddle.
Side 1: 1: 18. Gannon's Slip Jig [talk about hop & slip jigs, learning the fiddle from Gannon after seeing Coleman dancing and playing this tune], 4'50" -- 2. The Merry Sisters (3-part Reel played slow then up to tempo), 4'02" -- 3. Reel: Farrel Gurney [Garry] (Learned from James Gannon), 1'09" -- 4. Reel: Doctor Gilbert [talk before about learning tune in 1907], 1'31" -- 5. Reel: The Jolly Tinker (from Gannon), 1'28" -- 6. Mrs McCleod'S Reel (with variations), 3'54" -- 7. Reel: Bonny Kate (from Gannon), 2'49" -- 8. Barn Dance, 0'44" -- 9. Polka Mazurka [talk describing dance after], 1'41" -- 10. The Varsoviana [talk after], 1'40" -- 11. The Valeta Watz [talk after], 1'54" -- 12. The last figure of the Lancers ("Please give a penny to the poor old man") [talk before], 1'32" -- Side 2: 1. Talk about his life & work & his present job as porter at Liverpool Street Railway Station in London, 4'20" -- 2. O'Dwyer's Hornpipe, 2'55" -- 3. Advice to beginners starting the fiddle and "The Alphabic Method", 3'51" -- 4. Talk about various types of Irish dance tunes -- 5. Talk about variations: Bonny Kate -- 6. Jig: Tell Her I Am (3 parts played separately then up to tempo), 3'09" -- 7. The Kid On the Mountain (6-part Slip Jig played slow then up to tempo), 5'14" -- 8. Talk about Gannon's Slip Jig.
Recorded by Peter Kennedy in London 1952. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax Cassettes 1975.