Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1015 (Keel Row)

Rhythm ?BarsMode ?
Fling16G Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Keel Row
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording MGm (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Keel Row, The / Lady Handwick's Reel (1st in set The Lasses of Donnibrook on WW 2) (also in A or D, also doubled)

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune?		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
192818#1[WW 2] various. The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 2. View album details
192921#3[WW 1] various. The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 1. View album details
19681.24#1[MGm] Michael Gorman. The Sligo Champion. The Fiddle Music of County Sligo. Michael Gorman (fiddle, vocals).View album details
~19778#2[ECst] various. Traditional Irish Music in America. The East Coast. View album details
~20042#2[JK 4] James Kelly. Melodic Journeys. James Kelly (fiddle).View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #198 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As misc #13 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1927
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