1. Londonderry Hornpipe / Jenny Dang the Weaver / Sleepy Maggie

Londonderry Hornpipe first appears in print in early 20th Century Irish tune collections as a three-part tune. All three parts circulate on PEI, but most fiddlers only play two of them: either A & B or A & C. Here I play A & B the first time through, but A & C on the second rep. My sources are Eddy Arsenault of St. Chrysostome and George MacPhee of Monticello. Jenny Dang the Weaver first appears in 18th-century Scottish tune collections and was recorded in the 1930s by Angus Allan Gillis of Cape Breton; my version is patterned on that of “Old Peter” Chaisson of Bear River. Sleepy Maggie appears in such classic Scottish tunebooks as The Athole Collection and The Skye Collection; it is closely related to the Irish tune “Jenny’s Chickens.” There appears to be no standard version, so I followed the advice of noted Cape Breton fiddler Sandy MacIntyre and selected the parts I liked best. Note that the melody of the third part echoes the opening theme of the Appalachian tune “Cluck Old Hen.” (Keys: D/D/B-modal)