Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Glackin, Paddy (fiddle) 6013273]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) 33682623]]>
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When my wife Sandy and I visited Peig a few years ago we recorded her music including this polka (with me playing along). At eighty-four years young, Peig had the same old enthusiasm and fondness for the music. Paddy Neil from near Newport, County Tipperary, recorded this polka for Ciarán Mac Mathúna over fifty years ago. I had originally named it for Mr. Neil, but I'm confident he would approve of my naming it for his friends and neighbours, Peig and Mick Ryan.]]> Ryan, Peig (flute)]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) 33682623]]>
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]]> Flynn, Eamon ]]> ]]> More info.]]> Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Tonra, Brendan 14474253]]> A Musical Voyage, with Brendan Tonra, produced by his friend Helen Kisiel. My setting of this reel can be found on a 1989 recording called Here and There, on the Green Linnet label. The tune is played for this collection by Séamus and Manus McGuire.]]> McGuire, Séamus (fiddle) 43512454]]> McGuire, Manus (fiddle) 43512465]]> O'Briain, Garry (piano) 58691214]]> Tonra, Brendan (composer) 14474253]]>
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It is fascinating to imagine the musical meetings that occurred when musicians from Ireland immigrated to America and encountered not only American-born players of Irish traditional music, but also players of Scottish music from Cape Breton. This tune is a great example of such musical cross-pollination. Perhaps Paddy O'Brien picked the tune up in America from a fiddle player, or from MacQuarrie's book, converted it to a hornpipe, and took it back to Ireland with him when he returned in the early 1960s. And now, 'The Bonnie Lass of Headlake' has travelled back and forth across the Atlantic many times; this time in fine style indeed, played by John Daly on the fiddle with Kevin Brehony at the piano.]]> Daly, John (fiddle)]]> Brehony, Kevin (piano)]]> MacQuarrie, Gordon (composer) 156370256]]>
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.]]> Knowles, Liz ]]> ]]> More info.]]> Folk music--Ireland]]> Penny whistle music]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Airs]]> Edmonds, Phil]]> To The Dance Floor, released in 2006 by a Rhode Island-based group called The Gnomes. Among its members is Phil Edmonds, the composer of this beautiful tune. Phil and I went to the same school in Killaloe, where we learned to play the tinwhistle, and Phil's father, Eddie Edmonds, was one of my secondary school teachers. The words below are taken from the notes to their CD:

'The Celtic Tiger is the term referring to the system of economics and way of life in Ireland for the past several years. While it has resulted in much wealth for many people (not all), the Celtic Tiger is devouring Irish Culture. Wherever money and material possessions become a priority, the quality of life decreases. Phil wrote this air, "The Celtic Lamb", hoping that Ireland, and all of us, will move towards a more sustainable and gentler lifestyle.'

It gives me great pleasure to have another Killaloe man associated with this collection. Thanks, Phil, for the tune, and thanks to the rest of the band for their participation in this project.]]> Edmonds, Phil (whistle) (composer)]]> Torch, Cathy Clasper (fiddle)]]> Read, Otis (guitar) 309842361]]>
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