• Spootiskerry

    From Mark Birdsall@21:1/5 to Allan MacDonald on Sun Jun 27 08:40:49 2021
    On Friday, December 29, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Allan MacDonald wrote:
    Can anyone tell me what "Spootiskerry" means?
    It's the title of a song by Ian Burns. Is there any history to the
    song that might be of interest to an audience.
    Also does anyone know the history of Morrison's Jig, a traditional
    Irish jig?
    Thanks
    Spootiskerry refers to the area of rocks just at the water level, sometimes exposed, sometimes underwater. The 'spoot' is the spurts of water coming up from the waves, or perhaps from the shellfish living there.

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  • From MIchael Pavan@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 07:51:40 2021
    https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Spootiskerry
    from the most comprehensive source of information that I'm aware of:

    The Traditional Tune Archive
    "The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotations"
    https://tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
    (formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion)
    http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/
    (not all information has been migrated yet)

    The Session may have useful information too
    https://thesession.org

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