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I composed this tune for Dublin fiddler, Aoife Ní Bhriain, as part of the work completed for the Liam O’Flynn Award. Aoife is a good friend and I am always amazed at her ability to inhabit two very different artistic identities as a traditional fiddle player and violinist in the Western classical tradition. I have observed Aoife’s masterful syntheses of styles and interpretations through projects such as Partitas & Potts, and this hornpipe attempts to integrate many perspectives and influences within one tune. The melody of the third part is loosely influenced by elements of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
