Sunday 1 September 2019
Tune of the Day: Tom Clair's Maggie
Traditional Irish reel
This reel is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, published in Chicago in 1922. O'Neill notes that “the first part of Mr. Clair's tune differs but little from ‛Drowsie Maggie’ in common circumstances.”