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PAT BOYLE OF GLENCOLUMKILL. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). Pat Boyle was a fiddler who came to Corktown (near Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, early in the 20th century and encouraged young Irish musicians who settled there. Boyle, originally from Glencolumkill, County Donegal, was a great influence on Reavy.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 57, p. 63.

Recorded sources: Jim Eagan - "At Reavy's House" (2003).




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