Re: Irish klezmer music Kevin Burke tune

[Bill Barabash <billb978...>]

I listened to the clip on Amazon.  It's the same tune notated in Kostakowski 
p. 94 titled "Itzikil Freilachs."

-- Bill B.

>Much as I love the Kevin Burke solo album I wonder if that "one klezmer
>melody" is actually klezmer. Apart from Irish ornamentation and phrasing,
>the tune itself sounds to me almost but not actually klezmer in terms of
>melody and structure.
>
>Has anyone heard this tune recorded elsewhere ? (titled Itzikel, labelled a
>frailach (but not))
>I first heard it while playing in a celtic/world music session at the 
>Maldon
>Folk Festival in Australia. My guess is it might have been a klezmer tune
>once but was changed by the "folk process".

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