The Sailor's Bonnet
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Sailor's Bonnet" in Gaelic "Bairéad an mháirnéalaigh" or "Boinéad na tSeoltóra"<br> also known as "Highlander's Bonnet" is an Irish reel in D Major. The parts are played<br> ABB (Reiner & Anick), AABB (most versions) or AABB’ (Moylan).<br> The “Sailor’s Bonnet” is the third tune of a famous medley by Sligo fiddler Michael<br> Coleman (1891-1945) (following "The Tarbolton" and "Longford Collector"), a recording<br> that was so influential that the medley is still played at Irish sessions.<br> The first part of the tune is sometimes played single and the second part doubled,<br> totaling eight and sixteen bars, respectively. Harry Bradshaw and Jackie Small note<br> that, while Coleman helped to popularize it, "The Sailor’s Bonnet" had been<br> comparatively unknown until the 1929 78 RPM recording of it by the duet of Leitrim<br> flute player John McKenna (1880-1947) and Sligo fiddler James Morrison (d. 1947),<br> which predates Coleman’s 1934 recording.<br> The second strain of "Sailor’s Bonnet" is similar to the second part of the American<br> breakdown "Billy in the Lowground".<br> It was printed in<br> Breathnach's CRÉ I (1963),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Lyth's Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing, vol. 1 (1981),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 1 (1977),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006),<br> Moylan's Johnny O’Leary (1994),<br> Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989),<br> Sullivan's Session Tunes, vol. 2,<br> Taylor's Through the Half-door (1992) and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999).<br> It was recorded by Andy Davey (1928-2005) on The Coleman Archive, vol. 2:<br> The Home Place (2005),<br> James Morrison & Michael McKenna (1929),<br> Micheal Coleman (1934),<br> Kevin Burke on Sweeney's Dream,<br> Paddy Keenan (1975),<br> Johnny Cronin, Paddy Cronin, James Kelly & Johnny McGreevy on My Love is in America:<br> The Boston College Irish Fiddle Festival (1991),<br> The Bothy Band on 1975,<br> Jean Carignan (appears as third tune of "Tarbolton Reel Medley" and learned from a<br> Michael Coleman record made in the mid 1930's),<br> Michael Coleman on The Wheels of the World and<br> Shaskeen on Shaskeen Live.<br> <br>
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