Annotation:Tansey's Favourite (1)
X: 1 T:Tansey's Favourite[1] R:reel S:Tommy Peoples & Dermot Byrnes H: N: Also on John Carty: Last Night's Fun D:Concert, Galway. Z:Adrian Scahill M:4/4 L:1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/atrilcoral.com/t.abc K:G G2DG EGDG|GABG AEE2|G2BG (3EFG AB|1 cedc BcAB:|2 c2Ac BGG2|| gdd2 eBB2|(3dcB AB GEE2|gdd2 edcd|(3Bcd gd BGG2| g2fg eBdB|c3B AGEG|c3d edfa|gedc BcAB||
TANSEYâS FAVOURITE [1] (Roghe Mhic an TĂĄnaiste). AKA and see âBloom of Youth (The),â âDownshire Reel (1) (The),â âGardiner's Favourite (1)," "J.J. Gardiner's.â Irish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAâB. "Tansey's Favorite" was the name south Sligo fiddler wikipedia:Paddy_Killoran (1903â1965) used for the tune on his 1934 recording, paired with "Heathery Breeze (The)" (Rising Sun) and recorded in New York. It recorded in New York, in 1927, by fiddler Joe Tansey who was born at Calteraun, Gurteen, Co. Sligo. Tansey received tutelage in fiddling with his brother Bernie at the Jamesie Coleman music hall in Killavil in the early 1900s. He emigrated to New York in the early 1900s and quickly became a fixture of the Irish diaspora musical scene in the city in the early 20th century.
OâNeill prints the tune as âBloom of Youth,â Goodman gives it as âDownshire Reelâ and McNulty has it as âGardinerâs Favourite.â Similar in parts to âLucky in Love.â