Annotation:Joe Ryan's Barn Dance

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 JOE RYAN'S BARN DANCE. AKA and see "Auchadon House," "Auchdon House," "Haughton House," "Kilnamona (The)." Irish, Barn Dance. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A renaming of the Scottish tune "Auchdon House" for County Clare fiddler Joe Ryan, who recorded it on his album "An Buchaille Dreoíte." Ryan apparently picked it up in Dublin from a musician who heard it played in the Shetland Islands.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Green Linnet GLCD 1175, Cherish the Ladies - "New Day Dawning." Green Linnet GLCD 1187, Cherish the Ladies - "One and All: the best of Cherish the Ladies" (1998. Learned from a tape of Inagh, County Clare, fiddler Joe Ryan, a cousin of Joanie Madden's mother).

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