After noticing my repertoire consists mostly of reels, I’m trying to focus on some other tunes to learn this week on whistles and mandolin.
Seeing as I only know a small handful of slip jigs, I’d really like to focus on adding at least a few more to my repertoire in the next month or so, as it’s another type of tune that I greatly enjoy.
So, I’m wondering, what are some of your favourite slip jigs?
My favourite that I know would be Kid on the Mountain, although as I mentioned, I don’t know many.
I’d be happy to hear about which ones you all like best. I’m always happy to find out about some good new tunes and perhaps find some good new material to learn. It doesn’t matter if it’s a common or obscure tune, I’d be interested to hear.
Funny you should mention that. I was just coming back to say “Der, that’s not a slip jig.” (I checked on JC’s.) Is it a slide? Does someone play it with a slip jig? In other words, why do I keep associating it with such nefarious things?
But it’s a great tune anyway.
And speaking of fiddlers … Hardiman the Fiddler. Another good one.
Hehe, that’s actually one of the other few that I know! I learned it from a lunasa album.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Aside from about 2 or 3 of these, the rest are ones I don’t think I have heard before. I’m going to look into every one of these that has been mentioned at some point during the week!
And yes, I am especially wanting ones that would fit nicely after or before Kid on the Mountain! However, I’m interested in any slip jig that any of you seem to like best!
Thanks for the suggestions, and please keep them coming!
Donald, Willie and his Dog
The Cat and the Dog
The Grinder
Chloe’s Passion
Angus John MacNeil of Barra
My Mind was never made easy - there’s also an Irish version
Oh goody! The Kid on the Mountain is here more than thrice! I love that tune. It sounds really nice on the viola by the way.
Anyway, The Kid on the Mountain and Farewell to Whalley Range are my favorites so far. McGoldrick and McSherry do a cool version of Farewell to Whalley Range in their album At First Light. I believe it’s the second tune in a great set with Lady Lane/Farewell to Whalley Range/[some slide that I can’t recall the name of right now].
As it turns out (took a bit of searching a couple months ago) Cathal McConnell’s is one of those tunes that absolutely no-one can agree on the name. The most popular names so far are Ryan’s, The Cock and the Hen (that’s what I know it by), and, of course, Cathal McConnell’s. TinWhistler on youtube does a decent rendition of that tune (I believe he calls it Ryan’s). Mairead Nesbitt (from Celtic Woman) also does a very good version of it, paired with (apparently) the Atlantic Slope, which I have found nothing on so far, but I haven’t searched about for that one much. I don’t remember Lunasa doing it… It must have had to have been on their “Lunasa” album as that’s the only one, other than Otherworld, that has McGoldrick in it as far as I know.
Cathal McConnell’s is on the otherworld album. Played after “Sliabh Russell” . What does McGoldrick not being in the band anymore have to do with them playing this tune?
And yes, farewell to whalley range was written by McGoldrick. That’s another one of the few I know.
.. and Chloe’s Passion is one of the others I know . Now I’m being reminded of slip jigs that I forgot I knew !
Back to the first tune I just mentioned, I think Cock and the Hen is probably one of the older names for that tune.. only a guess though. If you do some reading you can see where the name came about. Filthy tune.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I look forward to hearing about more slip jigs. I’m very glad I posted this thread, as it’s been very useful to me so far!
Ah, yes, I had forgotten about that set. And I had it in my mind that Cathal McConnell’s was a McGoldrick tune, but maybe not… I guess I just thought that because I heard it in a set with Farewell to Whalley Range.
I remembered another slip jig I heard on a harp album that I liked alot, and I forgot about it until now. It is called “The Humours of Whiskey” . I figured I’d mention it here, for anyone else who might, like me, also be seeking some good slip jigs!
Maki’s link to thesession list of 41 slip jigs is great. Here’s one I enjoy: Promenade, which Kevin Burke and Micheal O’Domhnaill did on their CD of that name: http://youtu.be/J7XzqjndH-Q
fox hunters and I think Butterfly is a slip jig - fiddler but think these adapt to whistles, must look up Kid on the mountain! Norma, whistle widow of Ian Parfitt
Funny you should mention that. I was just coming back to say “Der, that’s not a slip jig.” (I checked on JC’s.) Is it a slide? Does someone play it with a slip jig? In other words, why do I keep associating it with such nefarious things? 
. Now I’m being reminded of slip jigs that I forgot I knew !