Carolan's Welcome, Sheep in the Boat

Carolan's Welcome is a lovely composition of Turlough O'Carolan that I've arranged for solo mandolin, followed by the jig Sheep in the Boat, a jig I first learned in E minor on the concertina, but play it in A minor in this arrangement. Playing the tune in A minor opens up the possibility of playing the tune down an octave, which I do on the second time through.

Sheet music contains standard notation and mandolin tablature (7 pages).

Listen to this arrangement of Carolan's Welcome and Sheep in the Boat performed on mandolin...

Listen to this arrangement of Carolan's Welcome performed on mandola...