Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Folk music--Scotland]]> Polkas--Ireland]]> Concertina music]]> Mac Mathúna, Ciarán 36142146]]> Neil, Paddy]]> McAuliffe, Nicholas]]> Ceolta Tire programme. He had recorded it from Paddy Neil, a concertina player from near Newport, County Tipperary. Paddy's version, in particular the second part, is different from what is usually played. Thanks to Monsignor Coen for learning and recording it for me, and to Nicky McAuliffe from County Kerry for the tune information.]]> Coen, Charles (concertina) 38213636]]> McElroy, Kevin (guitar) 70994386]]> Gow, Niel (composer) 28267017]]>
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]]> Coen, Charles ]]> McElroy, Kevin]]> Gow, Niel]]> ]]> More info.]]> Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Burke, Joe 23520115]]> O'Neill's 1001. I first heard the legendary Joe Burke play this tune with the lovely surprise variation in the second part. Thanks to Holland Raper for learning the tune and playing it on her fiddle. She is a former student of Mick Gavin of Meelick, County Clare, and Detroit, and, at the time of writing, a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston.]]> Raper, Holland (fiddle)]]>
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]]> Peoples, Tommy ]]> ]]> More info.]]> Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Piano music--Ireland]]> Set dances]]> Lawrie, Kathleen]]> de Glin, Brendan]]> aforementioned occasion some forty years ago, Kathleen Lawrie played 'The Fiddler Around the Faerie Tree' for me as a set dance. Kathleen had learned the tune from dancing master Brendan de Glin from Derry. A shorter version of this tune may be found in O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, 1001 Gems as a hornpipe called 'The Mullingar Races'. I am delighted that Kathleen agreed to record it again for this collection.]]> Lawrie, Kathleen (piano)]]>
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P.S. It has come to our attention that this tune is a composition of Leitrim fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist Joe Liddy. He titled the tune "The Sweat House."]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) 33682623]]>
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]]> Connolly, Séamus]]> ]]> More info.]]> Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> ‘John Egan’s’), I thought I had captured Kevin Crawford playing a slip jig called 'What Care I For The Minister?' However, in the confusion, commotion, and mayhem that ensued when we realised that the tape recorder had been unplugged, it turned out that the slip jig Kevin played that evening was one called 'The First Slip'.

Featured here on this track, this melody also appears in The Dance Music of Willie Clancy, a collection compiled by Pat Mitchell and published in 1976. Everything turned out just fine, as it happens: 'The First Slip' is a wonderful melody, and I was able to get my friend Kathleen Guilday to play 'What Care I For the Minister?', found elsewhere in this collection.]]> Crawford, Kevin (flute) 71291044]]>
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]]> Bulger, Brendan ]]> Knox, Bill]]> ]]> More info.]]> Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Hornpipes]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Kelly, Kieran]]> Mammoth Collection, where one is named 'Best Shot'. As my friend Peter Catto of Brookline, Massachusetts, cleverly suggested, 'When you fly by night, your best shot is to not fly at a lower level!' The tune is played on this track by Boston's own fiddle player, Brendan Bulger. Brendan gives the hornpipe a bouncy lift, clearly imparting his own unique musical imprint.]]> Bulger, Brendan (fiddle)]]> Knox, Bill (guitar)]]>
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