KelticDead Music-Story Broadsides
"Ballad of Impossible Tasks"

The KelticDead Music initiative is a FREE, on-line, music-education resource for those who are interested in music played in traditional Folk, Celtic, Old-Time, and Sea-Faring styles with live, acoustic folk-music instruments like guitars, whistles, bouzoukis, and others. The mission of the KDM is to provide a resource for those who can enjoy how these old tunes and songs were(are) played, but also provide a resource for those who might want to play along using their own instruments from the comfort of their own home. A new thrust by the KDM is to also provide, on-line, page-turning stories about the selections that are formatted to be viewed from computers or upon smartphones. My KDM story broadsides can also be found within a collaborative on-line magazine out of Europe. Check out SIMPLY FOLK MUSIC MAGAZINE on Facebook. 

The latest project is one that most people know from Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Faire" (1966). However, this ballad was actually far older than that and the melody first appeared in 1891 by a collection from Frank Kidson. To view the free, KDM YouTube version of the ballad click on the image below.

To View of the KDM Story Broadside (which also has a view of the KDM sheet music arrangement, click on the following image:


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KelticDead Music Broadside Release

Shady Grove, Americana Version of the Ballad of Barbara Allan

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KelticDead Music Single Release
Gallant Soldier

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The KelticDead Music initiative shares free music and education about tunes and songs with stories 
that are in the traditions of Celtic, Folk, Americana, and Sea Faring music cultures.

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KelticDead Music: Lord Mayo's Delight

There is some confusion (and contention) as to who actually composed this melody which was dedicated to the 6th Viscount Mayo, Theobold Bourke, 1681-1741, in the 1st “generation” of Viscounts of Mayo which started from the first Lord of Ireland (Tiaboid naLong Bourke, 1567 – 1629). English titles can be confusing. 

In Captain Francis O’Neill’s compendium of Irish dance tunes (Irish Minstrels and Musicians, 1913), he gave credit to two authors of the tune; David Murphy (Dáithi Ó Murchadha of Castlebar, County Mayo), a harper whose patron was Lord Mayo, Theobald Bourke, 1681–1741. (David was a contemporary of Turlough OCarolan, and David is credited with the “march” version of the melody), and Thady O Cianain (in the same period of time) who may have had a similar arrangement as a “slow(er) aire” to which was called the “The Arrival of Fionna.” Other variants can be found like "Lord Franklin." 

There's a little back story about David Murphy in the KDM Broadside. While I mentioned that David was a harper and conceited, when he got into a brawl with Turlough OCarolan about their respective talents, the actual story was that Turlough was so angry with David's impudence that he dragged David out of the pub by his hair. Needless to say, this scene did not sit well with David's patron, Lord Mayo. 

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KelticDead Music Broadside Release

Go To Sea No More

A Free KelticDead Music Broadside about a sailor who provides a warning to other sailors
about the dangers in shore leave in Liverpool in the mid 1800s.

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