<![CDATA[The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/items/browse?collection=17&page=2&output=rss2 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:34:31 -0700 burnsref@bc.edu (The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music) Boston College Libraries Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Queen of May, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/441

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Leo Rowsome recorded this intricate hornpipe many years ago on a 78 RPM record. I recorded it with master piper Liam O'Flynn in 1988 on my record Notes From My Mind. On this track flute player Kevin Crawford joins me in keeping the tune alive.

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Séamus Connolly
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<![CDATA[Turn of the Season]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/442

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I have had the great pleasure of living in New England for many years, first in Massachusetts, and now in Maine. When I reflect on the beauty of the region, I picture its snow, its mountains, rivers, and lakes. I think of springtime when everything greens up and comes alive. I think on the changing colours of autumn leaves, the amazing foliage, and the turning of the seasons. All of the above are wonderful gifts and all are part of nature's beauty. These visions are forever captured for me in this lovely musical piece, composed and performed on this track by fiddle player Rodney Miller from New Hampshire.

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Séamus Connolly
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<![CDATA[Flee as a Bird]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/443

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And here is Julia and Billy Clifford's version of 'Flee as a Bird', which they recorded for me that night so long ago in Tralee, County Kerry. (Kimberley Fraser's version of this tune is here.)

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
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<![CDATA[Tom Turkington's in B Flat]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/444

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Tom Turkington's performance on my fiddle that night long ago in County Clare featured this hornpipe in B flat. I don't have a title for this tune, so I pay tribute to Tom Turkington by naming it for him. Listening to the great Kimberley Fraser's performance of the tune brings me back in time and somehow makes me long for that old fiddle of mine.

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<![CDATA[Séamus Connolly's]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/445

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I was honoured when Mrs. Matilda Murdoch from New Brunswick composed this hornpipe for me on her ninetieth birthday. After a night of playing music together at her daughter's home in Massachusetts, Matilda presented me with this very recording of herself playing her composition. A wonderful lady, a great composer and fiddle player, Matilda Murdoch has done much for the music of the Gael. God bless you, my friend. Gabriel Donohue added piano accompaniment to Matilda's fiddle, and we both spoke to her at her home as she celebrated her ninety-second birthday. She loved the track with Gabriel's piano playing. She asked Gabriel if he would go on tour with her – so young at heart!

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
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<![CDATA[Tyrone Among the Bushes]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/446

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Another tune from the playing of Tom Turkington from County Tyrone. This hornpipe is one of the tunes that he played on my fiddle so long ago at a concert at a Fleadh Cheoil in County Clare. Séamus Duffy, the traditional singer and adjudicator, introduced Tom that night with the words, 'We'll go up north now to Tyrone Among the Bushes!' I think it makes a great title for this hornpipe, which is played on this track by Kimberley Fraser from Cape Breton. Again, my sincere thanks to Kimberley and to all the musicians who took the time to learn tunes and perform them for this collection. All of you are heroes.

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<![CDATA[Willie Week]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/447

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The memory of legendary piper Willie Clancy from County Clare continues to be immortalised with this fine hornpipe. A composition of County Tyrone's All-Ireland champion fiddle player Jimmy McHugh, the tune is played here for us by Jimmy's son Benny. Benny kindly recorded a number of his father's compositions for me in Donegal in 2009. The Willie Clancy Summer School, affectionately known as 'Willie Week', has special memories for me and for thousands of musicians and music lovers from around the world.

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<![CDATA[West End, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/448

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I recorded Mrs. Galvin playing this hornpipe at a concert over fifty years ago in County Clare. Jerry O'Sullivan plays it on this track with a slightly different arrangement. This tune is sometimes attributed to the nineteenth-century Newcastle fiddle player and composer James Hill, and it appears in William Honeyman's The Strathspey, Reel, and Hornpipe Tutor. In parts of New England, it is played as a reel for contra dancing.

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<![CDATA[Men of Ulster, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/449

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Seán Maguire recorded this tune and gave it the above title. It may be found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection in the key of G-major under the name 'Norfolk'. The beginning of the tune always brings to mind the hornpipe 'The Wily Bachelor'. Laurel Martin plays it in her own distinctive style on the fiddle. Thanks, friend. As our mutual friend Peter Barnes once said of you, 'You're the hornpipe queen!'

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<![CDATA[G. Craig and Maureen Sullivan]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/450

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Brian Hebert plays a hornpipe he wrote to honour my special friends Craig and Maureen Sullivan. I will forever be grateful to them for their benevolent generosity to me, to Boston College, and to the world of Gaelic music and song. It is through their kindness that I have been able to turn the inspiration for this collection into a reality.

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<![CDATA[McDonnell-Garvey Hornpipe, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/451

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On this track we once again hear Josephine Keegan performing one of her compositions. The tune is dedicated to her friend, the late Máire McDonnell-Garvey, who was a fiddle player and the author of a number of books about her native province of Connacht.

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<![CDATA[Old Blackbird, The]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/452

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Looking back in time, one of my special memories of working on this project was the visit I made to Finbarr Dwyer. As I was setting up my recording machine he was playing this, his very own version of 'The Old Blackbird'. I have always loved this tune, but hearing it played by Finbarr that day made it even more special. I captured most of his remarkable playing of this tune, and here it is now. Finbarr's playing is a perfect lesson on the difference between the 'bones' of a tune that can be found in a transcription and what that tune can become in the mind and hands of a true master. The transcription included with this collection is taken from a book entitled Forget Me Not, which Laurel Martin and I compiled for Mel Bay.

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