Annotation:Kilcummin Slide (The)

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X: 1 T:KILCUMMIN SLIDE, The C:ABC/arr. BB Q:1/4=180 B:JOL.091 L:1/8 M:12/8 R:slide K:G e|gfg ded B2d G2B|AGA DFA G2A def| ged ded B2G GFG|AGA DFA G3 G2 :| B|d2g gfg b2b bag|a2g e2f gfg edB| Agg gfg b2b bag|faa e2f g3 g2 :|


KILCUMMIN SLIDE, THE. AKA and see "Kennedy." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Sliabh Luachra accordion player Johnny O'Leary stated: "I'd say it is from Kilcummin[1] (Co. Kerry) it came. The most of the slides and polkas come from there. That's the strange thing." However, Fr. John Quinn finds the tune cognate with James S. Kerr's "Kennedy," published in Glasgow in the 1880's. See also the Pennsylvannia-collected quadrille (jig) tune "Allegheny County", which is quite close in the first strain. The first strain also appears as the third part of "Dingle Regatta."


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Mick Mahony via accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region), recorded in recital at Na Piobairi Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan].

Printed sources : - Beisswenger (Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry), 2012; p. 32. Breathnach (Ceol Rince na hÉirrean vol. III), 1985; No. 40 (appears as untitled jig). Moylan (Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 91, pp. 52-53.

Recorded sources : - RTE CD174, "The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master Padraig O'Keeffe" (1st tune in medley along with "If I had a Wife" and "Worn Torn Petticoat"). Topic 12T357, Johnny O'Leary - "Music for the Set" (1977).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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  1. ↑ Kilcummin is a village in County Kerry, northeast of Killarney.
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