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The Blackbird (slow air​)​, Queen of the Earth & Child of the Skies, The Blackbird (reel)

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Three versions of the same melody. The first is the air of an Irish Jacobite song from the early 1700s, "The Blackbird" being an allegorical name for Bonnie Prince Charlie; the setting here is based on the air published by PW Joyce in "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs" (1909). The first verse is: "On a fair summer's morning of soft recreation/ I heard a fair lady a-making great moan,/ With sighing and sobbing and sad lamentation,/ A-saying 'My Blackbird most royal is flown./ My thoughts they deceive me, reflections do grieve me,/ And I am over-burdened with sad misery;/ Yet if death it should blind me as true love inclines me,/ My Blackbird I'd seek out wherever he be.'" The song found its way to America, and the air was collected from Appalachian fiddler Edden Hammons in 1947 under the "Queen" title; we learned it from Eric Merrill's CD "Western Star". The attentive listener will notice a very brief quote from another well-known "Blackbird" before we finish the set with Donegal fiddler John Doherty's reel version of the old melody.

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from resonance, released July 17, 2020

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Amala County Kerry, Ireland

"This fine collection is full of glorious barrier-breaking music. Reidun Schlesinger and Paul de Grae break every rule in the book to glorious effect, as they bridge the gap between baroque tunes, traditional, tantalising original compositions, and even one borrowed from Dave Brubeck. … Yielding riches with each return, 'resonance' insinuates itself deep into the subconscious." Irish Times review. ... more

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