Tuesday 5 March 2019
Tune of the Day: Morning Cheer
Traditional Irish reel
This Dorian-mode reel is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, published in 1922. His source was the Rice-Walsh manuscript, a collection of music from the repertoire of Jeremiah Breen, a blind fiddler from North Kerry, Ireland. O'Neill identifies the tune as a variant of the similar “Jim Moore's Fancy”.