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PÁáDRAIG O'KEEFFE'S FAVOURITE. AKA and see "Brosna Slide (2).” Irish, Slide. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. A Mixolydian (Moylan, Taylor): A Dorian (Breathnach). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region) [Moylan]; accordion player Denis Doody (Kerry) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 53, p. 24 (appears as “The Brosna”). Ceol, vol. 5, No. 1 (appears untitled). Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 86, p. 49. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; p. 15.

Recorded sources: Globestyle Irish CDORBD 085, Johnny O’Leary - “The Rushy Mountain” (1994. Reissue of Topic recordings). Mulligan Records LUN 019, "Denis Doody Kerry Music." Topic 12T357, Johnny O’Leary - “Music for the Set” (1977).




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