Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2038 (Weavers)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Slide32AABBD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Weavers
 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 JOL 3 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Weavers, The / The Weaver's / Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide / Padraig O'Keeffe's / Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide No. 2 / O'Keeffe's Number 2 / Denis Murphy's Slide / Denis Murphy's Slide No. 2 / Coleman's Jig / Coleman's / The Star Above / Kisslands (2nd in set O'Keeffe's Slides on JOL 3; 3rd in set Westport Set-Dancers on MMM; 2nd in set Denis Murphy Slides on ESL 1)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

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
~197312#4[Ch 4] The Chieftains. 4. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones).View album details
~199220#3[MMM] various. Music at Matt Molloy's. View album details
199520#2[JOL 3] Johnny O'Leary. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. Johnny O'Leary (accordion).View album details
19971#2[Beg 1] Beginish. Beginish. Paul McGrattan (flute), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Brendan Begley (accordion, vocals), Noel O'Grady (bouzouki).View album details
~19981.6#2[ESL 1] various. An Evening in Sliabh Luachra. Volume One. A Collection of Traditional Music and Song from the Sliabh Luachra Area. 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 #63 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #132 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
On page 286 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As slide #13 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 115 of [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As slide #33 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #71 in [DM 4] Dave Mallinson. 100 Vital Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 18 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]

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): 1973
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