A Tune A Week

Actually in a set called “Whelan’s” played by Noel Hill and Tony MacMahon. The prevailing key seems to be G, but I learned it in D first since said recording is in E-flat. Makes sense, right?

This one from a Mary MacNamara album, where it is placed before Kerfunten. She plays it in G# on a C#/G# box, so presumably along the first row. If I play it that way I get C, G, or D, depending on which row and which box (C/G or G/D). If I want it in D on the shiny new 30-button C/G, I have to learn it across the rows. . . tricky. Aren’t they all, on the concertina.