Annotation:John Roarty's

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 JOHN ROARTY'S. Irish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988) in honor of John Roarty, a fiddler who kept an Irish bar in West Philadelphia in the 1930's.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 59, p. 65.  Recorded sources:

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