Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> McAuliffe, Nicholas]]> Coleman, Michael]]> O'Beirne, James]]> Preston, Eugene]]> Bulger, Brendan (fiddle)]]> Knox, Bill (guitar)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Accordion music--Ireland]]> Coughlin, Jack]]> Burke, Joe 23520115]]> Moloney, Eddie]]> Whelan, Tommy]]>
Incidentally, Sean Moloney, in his notes on the CD recording of his father's music, tells us that Eddie learned many tunes, including the one featured here, from Tommy Whelan. A flute player, Tommy was a member of the Ballinakill Traditional Players and a composer of many fine tunes. In all probability then, these masters from the past, Jack Coughlin, Eddie Moloney, and Tommy Whelan, played this tune often. This amazing flute tradition from in and around Ballinakill, County Galway made its way across the Atlantic Ocean, brought to America by two other masters from East Galway, Mike Rafferty and Jack Coen. Both these gentlemen were awarded National Heritage Fellowships for their contributions to the living arts and culture of the United States. What an amazing life's journey in the name of music. Enjoy the tune and decide for yourself which part you would prefer to begin the tune on!]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Polkas--Ireland]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Neary, Jimmy]]> McGreevy, Johnny]]> Heaton, Shannon (flute)]]> Heaton, Matt (guitar)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> McGreevy, Johnny]]> A Few Tunes, Now and Then, where she named it in Johnny's honour.]]> Keegan, Josephine (fiddle, piano) 72741909]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Hornpipes]]> Uilleann pipe music--Ireland]]> Sullivan, Dan 65878208]]> O'Sullivan, Jerry (uilleann pipes) 31619251]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Moloney, Eddie]]> The Roche Collection, but I first heard it played by Eddie Moloney from Ballinakill, County Galway. Eddie, Tommy Mulhaire, and his son Brendan were among those who travelled on a number of occasions in the 1960s with Mulhaire's Céilí Band to perform in different towns around County Kerry. These performances were part of a series of concerts and music weekends organised by Diarmuid Ó Catháin, who was later to become president of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. I was thrilled when Joanie Madden, daughter of yet another Galway musician, Joe Madden, recorded the tune for me. Thanks, Joanie – keep up the great work that you and Cherish the Ladies do. We cherish you! Sláinte to you all!]]> Madden, Joanie (flute) 38423903]]> Donohue, Gabriel (piano) 103020997]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Fitzgerald, Tom]]> McGreevy, Johnny]]> Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody. Thanks to Johnny McGreevy, who introduced this tune to me, and thanks to one of America's wonderful young musicians, Tina Lech, for playing it for this project.]]> Lech, Tina (fiddle)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Banjo music--Ireland]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Barndances]]> Galvin, Ellen]]> MacMahon, Tony 171508158]]> We shall hear Barbara play some of her own compositions (‘Ashcraft-Fraser House’, ‘The Reel Bus’, and ‘A Riverview Cabin’) as we venture through this collection.

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Folk music--Ireland]]> Folk songs, English--Ireland]]> 'Tart ar an Ól'), ballad singer Josephine McNamara was another artist who made the long journey – in her case from County Leitrim – to perform in Diarmuid Ó Cathain's concert series. She was always a special favourite at these events. Coming as she does from the musical McNamara family it is no surprise that she was All-Ireland champion singer for a number of consecutive years. Josephine left Ireland in the 1960s, and I was delighted to meet her in New Haven, Connecticut, thirty years later. She sang this song for me for this collection, a song we both first heard many years ago on an old 78 RPM record.]]> McNamara, Josephine (vocals)]]> Creative Commons License
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Knowing the close connection the music of Northern Ireland has with Scottish music and the music of Cape Breton Island, I asked Kimberley Fraser, the great young fiddle player from Cape Breton, to give her interpretation of this and some of the other tunes that Tom Turkington played that night. Kimberley's remarkable blending of her own Cape Breton style with a Northern Ireland fiddle style on these recordings produces powerful, driving, and rhythmic music much in the spirit of the way Tom Turkington himself played. Thanks, Kimberley, for your splendid fiddle playing.]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Lawrie, Bobbie]]> elsewhere, Catherine also grew up in Birmingham.]]> McEvoy, Catherine (flute) 29160418]]> McEvoy, Paddy (piano)]]> Lawrie, Bobbie (composer)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Reels (Music)]]> Piano music--Ireland]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Lawrie, Kathleen]]> We all had a big laugh when Kathleen discovered herself playing the reel on her accordion! That was my way of reminding her that she did indeed know the tune. I was thrilled to have Kathleen perform it with me for this collection, even though she had not played the piano for thirty-five years. She practiced for two days on a piano we borrowed from Kevin McElroy and his wife Kate Butler in order to give us this performance. I was delighted to have a chance to play with her, and I am happy to say that she has returned to the music and once again plays her beloved piano.

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Folk music--Ireland]]> Marches--Ireland]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Nugent, Sean]]> Nugent, Rosemary]]>
'I am a nice wee bouncing girl,
And my age it is scarce sixteen,
And when I'm dressed all in my best
Sure I look like any queen...

On the first of May I will make my way,
To the Magherafelt May Fair...

My mother cautioned me going out
Do not stay long in town
For if you do, your father and I,
On you we will surely frown.
Be sure to shun bad company
And of young men beware,
How nice you be, don't make too free
At the Magherafelt May Fair!'

Listening to those All-Ireland champion band members play along with Rosemary's singing, one can sense the exuberance and pride that they felt playing their music. For this collection, the march is played by Sean Nugent's son Larry on the flute, accompanied by Pat Broaders on the bouzouki.]]>
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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)]]> Creative Commons License
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