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Annotation:Reel (91)
X:1 T:Reel [91] T:Untitled T:Bush in Bloom M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 251) B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=52&z=103.9366%2C81.7291%2C3278.6224%2C1328.6073 N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d2 BG AGEF|G2 Bd efge|dGBG AGEF|G2 BA G4:| g2 dg egdg|g2 bg agef|g2 dg egdg|egfa g2 ga| bggb agef|gfge dega|bgaf gfed|edef gfge||
REEL [91]. The tune was entered as an untitled reel into Book 2 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894). Grier researchers Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward find it avery close version of with "Bush in Bloom (The)" AKA "Bush in Blossom (The)."