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Homecoming, The

07-17_The_Homecoming-Waltz.pdf
Kathleen Boyle, a great musician from Glasgow, composed this tune for her mother and father. They had returned home to County Donegal after living for forty-seven years in Scotland. Kathleen, who plays her composition on this track, travels back and…

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Barney's Jig

08-09_Barneys_Jig.pdf
This track comes to us courtesy of Kathleen Boyle from Glasgow. Kathleen recorded it in Donegal in 2011 in the county where her grandfather, the great Néillidh Boyle, lived. Kathleen carries on her grandfather's tradition of composing as she…

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Waltzing Down the Aisle

09-04_Waltzing_Down_the_Aisle-Waltz.pdf
Another tune from the pen of Kathleen Boyle from Glasgow in Scotland. She wrote this waltz for her sister's wedding, for her to walk down the aisle to. Here we hear 'K.T.' beautifully playing her own composition on piano and piano accordion.

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Biddy from Sligo

10-23_Biddy_from_Sligo-Jig.pdf
The fiddle master Néillidh Boyle recorded this tune as part of a two-jig set in Dublin in 1937. That recording happened to be the very first record of Irish fiddle music that I had when I was growing up. It is performed on this track by…

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Biddy from Sligo / The Connaughtman's Rambles

10-29_The_Connaughtmans_Rambles-Jig.pdf
And as we present this last selection, we come to the end of a long musical journey. It is my hope that whoever reads my stories, anecdotes, and ramblings will get some insight into the tunes' histories, and some new information about them.…

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