Annotation:Highest Hill In Sligo (The)

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 HIGHEST HILL IN SLIGO, THE. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by the late County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988), to commemorate fiddlers Michael Coleman and Lad O'Beirne, both originally neighbors from County Sligo who emigrated to New York. Coleman took lessons from Lad's father, Phillip.  Source for notated version: Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 23, p. 24.  Printed sources: Green Linnet GLCD 1087, Seamus Connolly - "Notes From My Mind" (1988. Learned from Reavy during his visit to Connolly's home in Limerick in the late 1960's). Shanachie Danú - "When All is Said and Done."  Recorded sources:

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