Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2124 (Boys from Ballavanich)

Rhythm
Reel
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Boys from Ballavanich, The / The Ballivanich Reel (also as slow piece) (1st in set Boy in the Boat on Lu 6) (composed by Iain Kirkpatrick aka Ian Kirkpatrick) [This tune is not (yet?) part of the Irish tradition, but belongs rather to Scottish music.]
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
~19942.4#1[GL20] various. Green Linnet Records. The Twentieth Anniversary Collection. View album details
~200611#1[Lu 6] Lúnasa. Sé. Trevor Hutchinson (double bass), Sean Smyth (fiddle, whistle), Kevin Crawford (flute, whistle, bodhran), Cillian Vallely (pipes, whistle).View album details

Bibliography

According to my research, there are zero transcriptions that sound very similar to this tune anywhere in the indexed books, regardless of tune title. Try my recommended links to other indexes if you need a transcription. To learn to play this tune, simply learn it from another musician or study the recording(s) listed above. See also: Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music.

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1994
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