Paddy Fahy's No. 6 (jig)

[Colin Botts]

I love the way Paddy Fahy often plays around with the modality of his tunes, typically by messing with the 3rd and 7th scale degrees. (The 7th, in the case of this particular tune.)

Thanks for listening!

[Mike Buesseler]

I love the way you play around with that mandola!

[DougC]

This works quite well on mandola. I love the overtones, that you probably miss on a higher pitched instrument. Do you have a guitar backing this up. Or are there some ringing 'double stops'?

[Colin Botts]

This works quite well on mandola. I love the overtones, that you probably miss on a higher pitched instrument. Do you have a guitar backing this up. Or are there some ringing 'double stops'?

I went back and overdubbed a second mandola part that comes in on the B part. Guitar or octave mandolin would have probably made more sense as a backing instrument, but the mandola was already in my hands

[twaaang]

This is terrific, I'll have to try it out on mandolin and mandola.

It was my understanding that Paddy Fahey declined to name any of his numerous tunes anything more elaborate than "Paddy Fahey's". As a consequence, I have (for example) three fiddle albums by the Kane sisters, with no fewer than sixteen entries for "Paddy Fahey's": an assortment of jigs and reels, as it turns out when you look further into the context. So I'm startled to see this one designated as "No. 6" and I hope it means that they've all been collected and published so we can agree on which is which. Is there a "definitive" collection?

Or is "Fahey" to be distinguished from "Fahy", and I've got the wrong one? -- Paul

[Colin Botts]

This is terrific, I'll have to try it out on mandolin and mandola.

It was my understanding that Paddy Fahey declined to name any of his numerous tunes anything more elaborate than "Paddy Fahey's". As a consequence, I have (for example) three fiddle albums by the Kane sisters, with no fewer than sixteen entries for "Paddy Fahey's": an assortment of jigs and reels, as it turns out when you look further into the context. So I'm startled to see this one designated as "No. 6" and I hope it means that they've all been collected and published so we can agree on which is which. Is there a "definitive" collection?

Or is "Fahey" to be distinguished from "Fahy", and I've got the wrong one? -- Paul

Nope, you're correct, that was a typo on my part. It is indeed Fahey. Apologies!

I suppose the closest thing there is to a definitive collection would be Maria Holohan's 1995 thesis from The University of Limerick entitled The Tune Compositions of Paddy Fahey.

[John Kelly]

Interesting points you make about the modality of the tune, Colin. I really like your delivery and that understated backing on mandola. So often less is more!

[Jill McAuley]

I love Paddy Fahey tunes, and that one sits so nicely on the mandola, lovely stuff Colin!