Wednesday 1 January 2025
Tune of the Day: The Twopenny Jig
Traditional Irish jig
The earliest known appearance of this jig is in the August 1842 edition of the Dublin Magazine, in which collector Henry Hudson remarks:
A merry pipe-tune, for which we are indebted to Paddy Coneely. One of its many rustic names may be said to be “The Two-penny Jig.” When we see a tune genuinely belonging to this class, we always desire to have a drone in the bass, even when arranging it for the piano-forte.