Father Tom's Wager Item Info
- Title:
- Father Tom's Wager
- Sound Cloud:
- Description:
- This grand old jig appears in O'Neill's 1001. I first heard the legendary Joe Burke play this tune with the lovely surprise variation in the second part. Thanks to Holland Raper for learning the tune and playing it on her fiddle. She is a former student of Mick Gavin of Meelick, County Clare, and Detroit, and, at the time of writing, a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
- Publisher:
- Séamus Connolly, Boston College Libraries
- Creator:
- Raper, Holland
- Type:
- Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
- Subjects:
- Folk dance music Jigs Fiddle tunes Burke, Joe
- Playlist:
- Playlist 05
- Collection:
- Jigs
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Raper, Holland, "Father Tom's Wager", The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, accessed June 4, 2025, https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/489.html.
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/489.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This website was created through a partnership with Séamus Connolly and the Boston College Libraries (2016). All materials on this site may be freely shared and adapted according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.