Pádaí Beag Ó Gallachoir’s

In his early years Danny O’Donnell learned this tune from Pádaí Beag Ó Gallachoir, a butcher from Dungloe. Pádaí had a family dance band and enlisted Danny to play fiddle and saxophone. It would seem to have derived from the Scottish tradition where it appears in Kerr’s Collection of Merry Melodies, Vol. 2 as The Winter’s Night Schottische. Danny McCarry of north Donegal knew it as The Hot Canary and it was a favourite of both Jamie Peoples, Tommy Peoples’ grandfather, and Kathleen McGinley who learned it from Bob Peoples.