<![CDATA[The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Gavin%2C+Larry&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CIdentifier&sort_dir=d&output=rss2 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:54:24 -0700 burnsref@bc.edu (The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music) Boston College Libraries Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Fourpenny Bit, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/687

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Another tune that Larry Gavin sent to me is this reel. Larry found it in 'The Bible' of Irish music, the O'Neill's 1001 collection of tunes. It is played here for us by the great Catherine McEvoy with accompaniment by her nephew, Paddy McEvoy, on piano.

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Séamus Connolly
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10-17_The_Fourpenny_Bit-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Edenderry, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/678

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Larry Gavin sent this tune to me on a tape over thirty years ago. Getting a tape of music from Ireland, and more especially from Larry, was always special. I was always assured of getting a new tune or two from my good friend. On this track we hear Joanie Madden playing the version found in O'Neill's 1001 collection, the same version that was played by Larry so long ago. Lar, I still have that tape. Thanks for the memories.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
09-29_The_Edenderry-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Tulla Lodge]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/676

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Martin Hayes, the great fiddle player from East Clare, gives us this beautiful rendition of a tune I have given the title 'Tulla Lodge'. This tune was given to me by Larry Gavin.

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09-26_Tulla_Lodge-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Michael Relihan's]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/667

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A lovely tune that came from the playing of John Kelly, the fiddle and concertina master from west County Clare. John had a storehouse of unusual tunes and was ever so generous in handing them down to other interested musicians. Michael Relihan was a neighbour to John Kelly before John moved to Dublin City. I first heard my friend Larry Gavin playing the version played here by Catherine McEvoy.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
09-03_Michael_Relihans-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Molly, Put the Kettle On]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/662

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Joanie Madden gives us her interpretation of a tune I first learned from Larry Gavin. It also appears in O'Neill's 1001. I temporarily mislaid the recording Joanie made for me, so the tune almost didn't make it into this collection. I'm glad I found it, Joanie. Great playing!

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
08-25_Molly_Put_the_Kettle_On-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[O'Reilly's Fancy]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/648

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My friend in Tulla, Larry Gavin, sent me this reel thirty-five years ago. I love Larry's accordion playing and I am grateful to him for supplying many wonderful tunes to me during all the years that I have lived in America. Larry, as they say, you 'kept me at it'. The reel is played on this track by Joanie Madden.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
07-19_OReillys_Fancy-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Old as the Hills]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/501

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Jack Coen gave me the name for this jig, which can be found as a two-part tune in A major in the O'Neill's 1001 collection. I first heard the tune played by 'The Man of Many Tunes', Larry Gavin. I also heard a version of it performed by Mr. David Curry and his orchestra in a radio broadcast when I was still living in Ireland. A classical musician, David Curry took traditional tunes in the public domain and arranged them for orchestra. Maine flute player Nicole Rabata and I play David Curry's four-part setting of 'Old as the Hills'. We transposed it to the key of G major, the key that Larry Gavin played it in many years ago.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
06-15_Old_as_the_Hills-Jig.pdf
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<![CDATA[Duet, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/440

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A hornpipe played with great feeling and understanding by the great accordionist, the one and only James Keane from Dublin and New York. This tune first came to my attention a number of years ago when Larry Gavin performed it at Aonach Paddy O'Brien, in Nenagh, County Tipperary.

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Boston College Libraries

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05-33_The_Duet-Hornpipe.pdf
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<![CDATA[Lame Crowley]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/495

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I knew that Billy McComiskey, Laura Byrne, and Donna Long, with their superlative musicianship, would be the right people to play this tune. I learned it many years ago from my long-time friend Mr. Larry Gavin. Billy was curious as to where the jig had come from, while saying in a few words that it sounded to him like a beautiful old melody. Glad you like it as much as I do, Billy.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
05-31_Lame_Crowley-Jig.pdf
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<![CDATA[Drunken Ganger's, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/491

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This is another tune that was given to me by accordionist Larry Gavin, who lives in Tulla, in east County Clare. A version of this slip jig may be found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection. It is played here in fine style by the talented Gráinne Murphy.

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05-18_The_Drunken_Gangers-Slip_Jig.pdf
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<![CDATA[Galway Jig, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/477

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Accordionist Larry Gavin, a longtime friend, put this tune on tape for me a few years ago at his home in Tulla, County Clare. Larry is a repository of Irish music, and he raised this tune up from his deep well. Apparently the tune was played by members of the old Aughrim Slopes Céilí Band from County Galway back in the 1940s. Larry, together with East Clare fiddle player Micheál O'Rourke and piano accompanist Charlie Lennon, recorded this version of the tune especially for me. The tune may also be heard on their own CD recording Two Miles to Tulla in a set with 'The Plains of Mayo'.

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Boston College Libraries
03-27_The_Galway_Jig.pdf
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