Tune The Providence Reel
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This is another tune which I first heard on the album Traditional Music From Ireland by Séamus Creagh and Aidan Coffey. There's not a bad track on that album, by the way. The tune was composed by John McGrath, some time in the 1920s or '30s, and it's sometimes called the Rossport Reel, after his birthplace.
This tune appears in this collection: Lewes 2026
John McGrath, arr. ©2026 Ben Paley
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Recordings:
- Séamus Creagh and Aidan Coffey, "Traditional Music From Ireland", 1999
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Actually, there are so many, just go and have a look at https://thesession.org/tunes/376/recordings
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