St. Anne's Reel - OT

[NoNaYet]

Somewhat off topic, but I am asking here because I suspect this is a great pool of folks that listen to this type of music.

 

I love St. Anne's Reel; a favorite when I was more serious on my fiddle.

 

I am looking for a title for a song that used the reel, but it was incorporated in a song where a traveler (maybe a sailor) was stranded in the town and could hear it being played in the pub below his room. I heard this played in a really nice pub in Virginia, but can't find the song or the performers.

 

NNY

Edited July 21, 2010 by NoNaYet

[Boney]

The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel. The version I heard was by Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy.

 

http://www.emusic.com/album/Tommy-Makem-and-Liam-Clancy-The-Makem-and-Clancy-Collection-MP3-Download/11421397.html

[NoNaYet]

I owe a little apology for the off topic post. Somehow posting the question gave me another way to search, and here it is

 

 

http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/05/reel.htm

 

 

And this is who I hear in the pub.

 

NNY

[Leo]

I was thinking John Denver or the Dubliners

 

Thanks

Leo

[michael sam wild]

A favourite in sessions we always call it Stan's Reel. I heard it was from Canada originally.

I first heard it on a Robin and Barry Dransfield LP in the late 60s

[spindizzy]

A favourite in sessions we always call it Stan's Reel. I heard it was from Canada originally.

I first heard it on a Robin and Barry Dransfield LP in the late 60s

 

and when played in a minor key, gets called satans reel

[Azalin]

From what I read this is supposed to be a french canadian tune. I remember when I was around 4 years old, my dad would put a vinyl disc and play that tune, and I'd ask him to play it over and over until it drove everybody sick. When I started playing irish music, I recognized the tune right away, it was somewhat hardcoded in my subconscious.

 

Here's a clip from the 30s, or so they say at thesession.org:

 

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/m2/f7/12778.mp3