Annotation:Raffertys' Party (The)

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RAFFERTYS’ PARTY, THE. Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed in early 1985 by Falmouth, Massachusetts, writer and musician Bill Black to commemorate a New Years part at the Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., home of his friends the (Mike) Raffertys.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 58, p. 30.

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