Tuesday 31 December 2019
Tune of the Day: New Year's Night
Traditional Irish reel
This Dorian-mode reel, related to the more well-known “Reel of Bogie”, is taken from O'Neill's Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, published in Chicago in 1922. O'Neill remarks that the tune was probably memorized from the wonderful piping of Bernard “Barney” Delaney, a piper from County Offaly.