Gipsy melodeon player, Lementina “Lemmie” Brazil, was born near Southampton and spent 26 years of her youth in Ireland, before her family returned to England to settle in Gloucester. She described some of her tunes as “Irish” and used to play for step-dance competitions. Peter Shepheard recorded her in the 1960’s and early 70’s and Gwilym Davies recorded her twice, in October 1977 and April 1981, when she was living on a caravan site near Gloucester. She played a one-row melodeon in C. We have transcribed her music in D or G.

Irish Jig, 2
Lemmie played the first strain twice, then stopped. She then played the first strain, followed by the second and the first again.

The recording can be heard on MTCD346, track 3-19; The Brazil Family.

Note by Charles Menteith