Banjo Hangout Top 100 Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Songs

Sheebeg, Sheemore (CH)

Banjo Hangout Top 100 Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Songs

Show Notes

When I originally learned this I used clawhammer tuned to double D. Then I learned it in open G 3-finger picking style. Now I'm trying it again with clawhammer after more than 30 years. It's coming back to me and I still think it's amongst the prettiest tunes ever written. The story goes that Sheebeg, Sheemore was the blind harpist's first composition in 1691. It's meaning is "Little Mountain, Big Mountain" and was named for a location where a battle between fairy peoples allegedly took place.

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