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Any Day Now is a jig that I composed for my son Conn as we waited in anticipation for his arrival in August 2019. I was preparing for a nationwide Music Network tour with Dónal O’Connor, Jim Murray, and Anxo Lorenzo at the time, and Music Network commissioned each of us to compose a tune to perform on tour. The version of that tune that appears here differs slightly from the original composition. My initial intent was to compose a very straightforward tune but I found that the melody became unnecessarily convoluted. Here I present a simpler version of the tune. I have opted to play each part (each 16 bars long) only once but they can be doubled if desired.
