Maid of Mt. Cisco
Also known as
Gearrchaile Sliabh CiscoThe Maid Of MonsiscoThe Maid Of Mont CiscoThe Maid Of Mount CiscoThe Maid Of Mount KiscoThe Maid Of MountciscoThe Maid Of Mt. CiscoThe Maid Of Mt. KiscoThe Maid Of Mt. KiskoThe Maids Of MonsiscoThe Maids Of Mont CiscoThe Maids Of MontciscoThe Maids Of Mount CiscoThe Maids Of Mt CiscoThe Maids Of Mt. CiscoThe Maids Of Mt. Kisco
Key
A Dorian
Type
Reel
Level
BIA
Instrument
Irish Flute
About this tune
The title most players know, "Maid of Mt. Cisco," is a corruption of Mount Kisco, a town in Westchester County, New York. The "Cisco" spelling traces to its appearance in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann, where Kisco loses its K because Irish has no such letter. The County Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran made the reel famous when he recorded it for Decca in 1937, and is credited with composing it — flute player Jack Coen told the New York researcher Don Meade as much. Killoran named it for a friend, Ann Mulligan of Mt. Kisco.
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