Two traditional Irish Jigs

Not too much fiddle on this one, mostly "chops," though it carries the melody starting with the third time through. A multitrack recording using a Tascam multitrack recorder, a very slow, lazy and very simplified version of Larry Unger's tune "Elkins." Enoch 12" Tradesman (stuffed with a small towel at neck joint) playing lead in Double D, Martin HD-28 guitar on rhythm, Cloud Nine Marimbula on bass (use headphones/earbuds/other good speakers to pick up the sound), H. Luger CV-300 fiddle also playing some lead. This is certainly not a note-for-note accurate banjo version of Larry Unger's excellent tune, nor as well-played as Jason White's version on YouTube, but I have attempted to capture much of the essence of the tune as I hear it.

A multitrack version I recorded with fiddle (Liu Xi workshop, ADAE), clawhammer banjo (Enoch 12" Tradesman with Rickard Dobson ring), guitar, bass.

I am unable to find much information about this particular tune, other than this link to its being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQrGJMvqCGQ If anyone has information about the tune, e.g., history, sources, please let me know.

It's a tune that a number of us in the Crooked Lake Fiddle Club (Keuka Lake, New York) played often and regularly a few years ago. Unfortunately, so many members of the group have passed away in the past 4-5 years that the group has disbanded; very sad to lose the friendship and musicianship of so many of what was once a fun jam and performance group. The tune is very simple but catchy and fun to play.

I learned to play this from a recording made by John Hoffman and Mac Benford (It?s About Time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Ta3mxxxCk

But ? I think they mistakenly called it ?Old Hen She Cackled?. They only early version of this tune I found that sounds like the tune they recorded was from John Salyer called Old Hen Cackled.

John Salyer / AEae https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/old-hen-cackled

Most everything else I heard is not a ?variation? ? but a different ?version?. I have choosen to learn this version, because ?I like it.?