Tuesday 17 October 2017
Tune of the Day: Ballyshannon
Traditional Irish jig
The only known appearance of this jig in print is in Harding's All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances, published in New York in 1905.
Ballyshannon is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. It claims to be the oldest town in Ireland, and its archaeological sites dating as far back as the Neolithic period (4000 BC – 2500 BC).