June 07, 2021

Season 5 Episode 16: Colclough Geoghegan, O’Farrell and Sky

1 hour 6 minutes

Tunes:

Colclough: Colclough’s Hornpipe, Rakes of Westmeath, Llewellyn

Burke Thumoth: Rakes of Westmeath

O’Farrell: Waterford’s Waltz, O’Farrell’s Hornpipe,

Gahagan: Gahagan’s Frisk, Humours of Westmeath, Ravencroft’s Fancy, The Chocolate Pot

William Dixon: How She Will Never Be Guided

Robert Riddell: How She’ll ne’er be guided

William Bingley: The Ash Grove (Llwyn On)

Wilson: Rakes of Westmeath

Francis O’Neill: Rakes of Westmeath

McFadyen: Rakes of Westmeath

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Pat Sky Video from North Carolina Television: https://youtu.be/7al1306eAFI

Pat Sky’s NYTimes Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/music/patrick-sky-dead.html

Pat Sky’s Gofundme page (Organized by his wife Cathy so I assume any donations will help to support her and end of life expenses.)

https://gofund.me/7e80fef5

If you want to watch Peter Browne play some awesome tunes and have great story exchanges with Pat Sky about living with Seamus Ennis and Liam O’Flynn I highly recommend renting Browne’s Piper Sunday Appearance from the Southern California Uilleann Piper’s Club: It is Episode 31: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pipersunday/471232053

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pipersunday/

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1733: How She Will Never Be Guided From William Dixon:

https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1794: How She’ll Ne’er be guided: From Robert Riddell’s A Collection of Scotch, Galwegian and Border Tunes

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/riddell/riddell18.pdf

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Geoghegan’s Tutor is Available on Ross’s Music Page:

1746: Ravencroft’s Fancy From Geoghegan page 14)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

1763 (ish): Ravenscroft’s Fancy From Robert Bremner’s Delightful Pocket Companion for the German Flute:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87754195

1746: Gahagan’s Frisk: From Geoghegan (page 11)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

1746: The Chocolate Pot: From Geoghegan (page 21)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

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1746: The Humours of Westmeath: From Geoghegan (page 18)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

1746: Burk Thumoth’s Rakes of Westmeath from 12 English and 12 Irish Airs: (also printed by Simpson)

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90419969

https://archive.org/details/imslp-english-and-12-irish-airs-with-variations-thumoth-burke/page/n35/mode/2up

1840: Rakes of Westmeath, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

1801: Rakes of Westmeath from John McFadyen (James Aird books):

https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n17/mode/2up?view=theater

1816: Rakes of Westmeath From Wilson’s A Companion to the Ball Room: (page 30)

https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Companion_to_the_Ball_Room_(Wilson%2C_Thomas)

1900: Rakes of Westmeath From Francis O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Rakes_of_Westmeath_(1)_(The)

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1800ish: O’Farrell’s Hornpipe Can be found in his Tutor:

http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html

1808ish: Waterford Waltz from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion Volume IV:

http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.4/ofpc.4_table.html

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1840: Colclough’s Hornpipe, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

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1804: The Ash Grove/Llwyn On From William Bingley’s North Wales: Including its Scenery, Antiquities, Customs, and Some Sketches of its Natural History… https://books.google.tg/books?id=tp3kAAAAMAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA336-IA7#v=onepage&q&f=false

1840: Llewellyn A Favorite Welch Air, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

I Listened to Pat Sky’s Recording of Tommy Reck an Amazon Music, I think it is likely you can find it on other places as well:

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B000S5590I?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&trackAsin=B000S3P194

The Album is called: Tommy Reck: Irish Piper The Stone in the Field

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