Annotation:Aggie Whyte's Reel (1)

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 '''AGGIE WHYTE'S (REEL). AKA''' - “Aggie White’s.” AKA and see “Father Ahearn’s,” "Paddy Kelly's." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Biography:Aggie Whyte was a fiddler player from Ballinakill, County Galway, who lived for many years in New York. She died in the 1960's, but not before becoming the first woman to win the All-Ireland Senior Fiddle title, in Cavan in 1954. The tune was recorded as "Father Aheam's" by James Keane and was printed in Treoir as "Paddy Kelly's." According to the liner notes on Mary Bergin's "Feadoga Stain 2" it would seem that Paddy Kelly composed this tune. Sources for notated versions: Galway fiddler Aggie White (whom Breathnach mentions is also "Mrs. S. Ryan," referring not to the famous Sean Ryan but to her spouse Seamus 'Jimmy' Ryan, a schoolteacher) [Breathnach] Source for notated version: fiddler John Loughran [Feldman & O'Doherty]. Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 342, pg. 182. Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 186, pg. 98 (appears as "Gan anim/Untitled"). Feldman & O'Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1979; pg. 242a (appears as untitled tune). Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF-1110, Paddy Reynolds - "My Love is in America: The Boston College Irish Fiddle Festival" (1991).

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