Bridget O’Malley - June Tabor [Traditional Folk Song with Score and Video]
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‘Bridget O’Malley’ (Brid Óg Ní Mháille) is an Irish song lamenting a lost love.
You can hear Hudie Devaney of Ranafast, Co Donegal singing it in Irish to Peter Kennedy and Sean O’Boyle in 1953 here:
This recording of Bridget O’Malley is taken from June Tabor’s performance at the Folkfestival in Köln in 1990, accompanied by Mark Emerson and Giles Levin on fiddle. She never produced a studio recording of the song.
Silly Wizard sang another English translation on their 1979 album So Many Partings. Here is their version:
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The metre should really be sort of relaxed 3/4, But I was going for accuracy, and I decided that rather than adding pauses everywhere, or just ignoring the nuances, it would make more sense to write exact note le
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