Thomas Power's Polka Item Info
- Title:
- Thomas Power's Polka
- Sound Cloud:
- Description:
- Thomas Power, fiddle player from Doonbeg, County Clare, had a repertoire of unusual old tunes. His son Michael, who lives in upstate New York, sent me a recording of his father playing this and a number of other tunes. Fiddle player Kevin Burke did a masterful job of learning this fine forgotten tune and endowing it with his magic swing. Incidentally, piper Padraic Mac Mathúna suggested to me that this melody might well be related to the old song 'An tSeán Bhean Bhocht', or 'The Poor Old Woman'. Musician and scholar Kieran O'Hare has brought to my attention the similarity between 'Thomas Power's Polka' and the song 'The Shearin's No for You' as performed by Scottish singer Ed Miller.
- Publisher:
- Séamus Connolly, Boston College Libraries
- Creator:
- Burke, Kevin
- Type:
- Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
- Subjects:
- Folk dance music Polkas Fiddle tunes Power, Thomas Mac Mathú na, Ciará n O'Hare, Kieran
- Playlist:
- Playlist 03
- Collection:
- Polkas
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Burke, Kevin, "Thomas Power's Polka", The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, accessed June 4, 2025, https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/544.html.
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/544.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.