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    An Bhinn Bhuí [comp. Saileog Ní Cheannabháin], reel

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    • An Bhinn Bhuí [comp. Saileog Ní Cheannabháin], reel [played slowly] / Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, piano

    This reel came about just before Halloween in 2009 when I was playing the fiddle, alone in my grandparents’ house in Aill na Brún, Iorras Aithneach, Connemara. It was a very windy and stormy night.

    An Bhinn Bhuí is the name of the hill near the house in that townland. It roughly translates to “yellow summit”, which I think refers to the yellow gorse flowers that bloom on it abundantly each autumn.

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