John Carty & Francis Gaffney | Tigh Widow Pat, Cnoc an Chrochaire | Geantraí TG4 | 2000

Widow Pat's, Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon : John Carty (fiddle) & Francis Gaffney (guitar) playing The Dairymaid (Reel 0:00) & The Graf Spey (Reel 1:23), in a recording made for the Geantraí music series on TG4 in 2000. John Carty was awarded TG4 Musician of the Year in 2003.
Bronnadh Ceoltóir na Bliana ar John Carty ag Gradam Ceoil TG4 i 2003. É anseo i gcomhluadar Francis Gaffney ar an giotár, i dTigh Widow Pat, Cnoc an Chrochaire, Co. Ros Comáin i 2000.
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[@whiterice1024]

Wonderful as always

[@eileennestor9274]

Lovely to listen to sweet nice style

[@jimmydearing]

That second tune is The Graf Spey reel - a four-part version in D, though sometimes three ~ five-parts in C or D.
Scottish tune that was adapted into Irish.
I heard it first from East Coast Canada fiddler, Kim Vincent (PEI & CB, NS). A mentor of mine, RIP Dec. 17, 2009.
On our second meeting, around Spring 1980 in Cabbagetown, Toronto -- he played it, Five parts in C.
I recorded it on a $29 cassette recorder, and it's a classic ..
Much further source 'n geekly discussion at: thesession.org/tunes/581

[@TradTG4]

Thanks so much for that Jimmy. It's always nice to have a personal association with tunes. Kim Vincent RIP.