Some days ago I have listened to Folk Alley and heard a recording that I liked immediately. This was a medley of two Irish tunes played by Eilen Ivers (fiddle) and John Whelan (accordion): Trip to Skye by John Whelan and a tune that is called Darach DeBruns but that is actually a tune named The Curlews and was composed by Josephine Keegan
The recording I heard has been published in 1987 in the album Fresh Takes:
Fresh Takes– John Whelan, Eileen Ivers
Label: Green Linnet
Released: 1987
This recording with Eileen Ivers and John Whelan is also contained in some other collections with Irish music, and I have found several videos at youtube. I have selected the follwing video:
John Whelan & Eileen Ivers – Trip To Skye Darach DeBruns
Trip to Skye – John Whelan
I have found the sheet music for Trip to Skye at thesession.org and on some other sites, you can find the links at the end of this post.
Here is another version of Trip to Skye, played by the group Skolvan:
Skolvan – Trip to Skye
Playlist Trip to Skye
The Curlews by Josephine Keegan
I have first looked for the sheet music for the tune Darach DeBrun’s gesucht, but I was not very successfull. Finaly I found out the right name of the tune, and I have also found the sheet music for The Curlews by Josephine Keegan. This tune is often found with the name “The Curlew”, but the originbal name is “The Curlews”, the tune has been named after the Curlew Mountains in Ireland:
Note by Cliff Moses: Greetings, I was just looking at your website for chords to the tune ”Trip to Skye” and noticed the entries to the “The Curlew”. The correct title, as written by Josephine Keegan is “The Curlews”. This can be verified by looking at her tune book The Keegan Tunes. Incidentally, the title refers to the Curlew Mountains in Ireland not the Curlew bird, also found in Ireland and the subject of several other Irish curlew tunes. (your site does not say that, but many people assume that.) Josephine and I recorded this tune about ten years ago as the title track on my CD.
Playlist The Curlews (Josephine Keegan)
Additional Information
* Sheet music Trip to Skye
Sheet music Trip to Skye for Irish tin whistle in b-minor: http://www.whistleworkshop.co.uk/trip_to_.htm
Sheet music Trip to Skye for mandolin in a-minor: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-music-mandolin-tab/trip_to_skye_%28j_whelan%29.htm
sheet music Trip to Skye at thesession.org: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3363
* Sheet music The Curlews
Sheet music and TAB for octave mandolin / mandolin with chords for The Curlews at Irish Guitar: http://banwarth.free.fr/engguitare.htm
Sheet music for Darach DeBrun’s: http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/EdWosika/Darach_DeBruns_1/0000
Sheet music for The Curlews at thesession.org: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/174
Sheet music for The Curlews at freesheetmusic.net: http://www.freesheetmusic.net/irish.html
TABs for The Curlews in the Mandolin Cafe: http://www.mandolincafe.com/tab/curlews.txt
* Websites
Homepage Eileen Ivers: http://www.eileenivers.com/
about Josephine Keegan: http://irishtunecomposers.weebly.com/josephine-keegan.html
Few of her tunes have yet to enter the standard repertoire. Perhaps her best known tune and now a common session tune, is The Curlew as recorded by Altan.
Homepage John Whelan: http://johnwhelanmusic.com/