Roger Sherlock - Memories of Sligo

A beautiful recording of Sligo-born flute player Roger Sherlock, subtly accompanied by Mary Conroy on guitar. Sherlock's tune selection seems a fairly accurate representation of North Connaught musical tastes, with reels predominating, followed by polkas, and only one set of jigs. The most interesting tune selection is the eleventh track: two well known slip jigs played in 3/2 time, in the style of north-east English triple hornpipes. Rarely heard in Irish music, these are the elusive and, now, contentiously-titled hop jigs known throughout Ireland before the decline of the triple hornpipe as a popular dance tune in the late-Eighteenth Century [source Ceolalainn]..

1. The Turnpike Gate/The Killavil Fancy [Reels]

2. Dowd's 9/Jack Maguire's [Reels]

3. The Duke of Leinster/The Duke of Leinster's Wife [Reels]

4. Morrison's/The Trip to Sligo [Jigs]

5. Fred Finn's/The Sailor on the Rock/Gan Ainm [Reels]

6. The Return of Spring/The Mountain Spring [Polkas]

7. The Queen of May/Anderson's [Reels]

8. The Pinch of Snuff/The Ships are Sailing [Reels]

9. The Dairymaid/The Rising Sun/Tom Billy's/Callaghan's [Reels]

10. The Galway Rambler/The Boys of the Lough [Reels]

11. The Foxhunter's/Comb your Hair and Curl it [Hop Jigs]

12. The Lads of Laois/Mama's Pet [Reels]

13. Dash to Portobello (Seán Ryan's)/The Pigeon on the Gate [Reels]

14. Tripping to the Well/The Kiss Behind the Door [Polkas]

15. The Flowers of the Red Mill/The Sreetplayer [Reels]

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Roger Sherlock - Memories of Sligo