If only you were mine and Maeves dance.

Jan 2, 2010 | Personal | 0 comments

These are tunes composed by the legendary fiddle player Maurice Lennon A musician that I am very happy to play music with regularly when he’s in Ireland.

The first tune, If only you were mine, was composed by him when he was 19 when his heart was broken after a woman he loved married.

The second Tune, Maeves dance, was composed by him about two years ago. He watched a documentary that told of an Irish family who emigrated to Australia when their Daughter, Maeve was only six. After a short time passed, she was tragically hit by a car and was killed instantly. However, this is not what the documentary focused on. Instead, it focused on an imaginary world that Maeve created and wrote about in great detail in her diary. Maurice was captivated by this world and the second tune, recognised by its waltz tempo was the result of the inspiration he got from this world.

People into Irish music may notice there’s a swing to the waltz tempo. Maurice likes to play it this way to attempt to illustrate the child like nature of the world and the inspired tune.

I hope I do them justice.

Oh. let me dedicate this to someone who I really hope has a fantastic music career ahead of them. I’ve been very impressed with her singing over the past few days.

Use this link to listen to the recording.

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