joshua green - dr. stan chapman's jig/rakes of kildare/connaughtman's rambles (guitar)

Here are three tunes that sounded to me like they kind of go well together. An outstanding version of dr. stan chapman's jig can be found on the Tony McManus album 'Shifting Sands'. I haven't looked these up yet but I assume they're all Irish. Tune in below to find out!

ibiblio.org fiddler's companion info for these tunes:
STAN CHAPMAN'S JIG. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard tuning. AAB (Miller): AABB (Holland). Stan Chapman is a Cape Breton style fiddler, music and fiddle teacher who lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Composed by the late Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland (1955-2009, Inverness, Cape Breton). The tune has also been recorded by Cape Breton Mic-Mac Indian fiddler Lee Cremo. Cranford (Jerry Hollands), 1995; No. 195, pg. 56.

RAKES OF KILDARE (Na Racairaide/Racairi Ua Cill-Dara). Irish, Double Jig. The word Rakes in the title appears to be short for rakehell, which itself stems from the Old Icelandic word "reikall," meaning "wandering or unsettled." Popularly rakes referred to stylish and spirited young men. The name Kildare means Church of the Oaks. O'Sullivan (1983) finds the tune (which appears in many collections of Irish music) earliest in print (in this form) in Levey's Dance Music of Ireland (1858), where it is called only "A jig." ONeill (1913), however, is convinced the tune was derived from an ancient march melody called Get Up Early, which the Irish collector Edward Bunting obtained in 1802 from one R. Stanton at Westport, County Mayo.

CONNAUGHTMAN'S RAMBLES [1], THE (Triallta an Connactaig)
The jig is one of the most commonly played pieces in the Irish repertoire, and has even spread to other genres. It is, for example, one of the commonly played jigs for English rapper sword dancing (along with The Blackthorn Stick and The Ten-Penny Bit). Connaught was one of the five old provinces of Ireland (along with Ulster, Leinster, Meath, and Munster), named for the ancient tribe who lived there, the Connachta. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).

Well, I'll be, a Canadian tune!!

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[wolfman19892]

dude you never stop to amase me with your awesome stringinstrument folkskills and just skills in general you would love some festivals that will be going on soonish and in the summer round these parts XD \m/

[TheArcturian]

@wolfman19892 haha thanks! send me a plane ticket and i'll be right over!

[Bigerjoel]

A very nice interpretation. Excellent gift of sharing on YouTube. Thank you.

[Xerxes4242]

Sorry if I'm wrong, but you sound like you have a rock background, for sure! Keep it up.

[tsjoencinema]

Hey I recognized that "Rakes" piece. Don't know from where though LOL