https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/items/browse?tags=Playlist+06&output=atom <![CDATA[The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music]]> 2024-03-28T12:47:25-07:00 Omeka https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/441 <![CDATA[Queen of May, The]]> Notes From My Mind. On this track flute player Kevin Crawford joins me in keeping the tune alive.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:45-07:00

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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
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/709 <![CDATA[Lurgy Stream]]> The May Morning Dew.]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:25-07:00

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The beautiful singing voice of All-Ireland Champion Rita Gallagher is once again heard on this track. The words of the song, and the others that she sang for the miscellany, appear courtesy of Rita. Thank you, my friend. More wonderful singing from Rita may also be heard on her 2010 CD recording, The May Morning Dew.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/497 <![CDATA[Mordaunt's Fancy]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:52-07:00

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This jig was played in my home in Killaloe, County Clare, when I was a young boy. It was not played by me, but by button accordionist Terry Lane on the turntable of our record player! Now, whenever I hear Mr. Lane's recordings, or 'Mordaunt's Fancy', it brings back childhood memories. My friend Geraldine Cotter from Ennis, County Clare, joins me on piano. We recorded the track in Geraldine's home in front of a blazing turf fire.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/442 <![CDATA[Turn of the Season]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:45-07:00

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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
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/498 <![CDATA[Plains of Mayo, The]]> Petrie's Complete Irish Music. It is given a special melodic lift by Larry Gavin and Micheál O'Rourke on accordion and fiddle. Charlie Lennon adds his own unmistakable accompaniment on piano. They 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 Galway Jig'.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:52-07:00

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This jig is tune number 304 in [George] Petrie's Complete Irish Music. It is given a special melodic lift by Larry Gavin and Micheál O'Rourke on accordion and fiddle. Charlie Lennon adds his own unmistakable accompaniment on piano. They 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 Galway Jig'.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/629 <![CDATA[Ambrose Moloney's]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:11-07:00

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Joe Burke, my lifelong friend, was leader of The Leitrim Céilí Band, named not for the county of Leitrim, but for a townland in east County Galway. I was honoured to have been a member of that musical group when we won the Senior Céilí Band competition in 1962. Ambrose Moloney was one of the flute players in the band and during a tour of England he gave me this tune. I had the honour of recording this reel in the early 1970s with the legendary Tipperary accordionist Paddy O'Brien, with Charlie Lennon at the piano.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/630 <![CDATA[Reel Bus, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:11-07:00

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On this track we hear a lovely reel performed by its composer, Barbara MacDonald Magone. Barbara tells us in her own words below how the tune came to be: 'In the spring of 2005, the San Francisco Fiddle Club (of which I am a member) took a tour of the Pacific Northwest. We traveled in two huge buses which were somewhat modified to accommodate the fiddle players (i.e., an area for sessions and refreshments). These buses were aptly named "Strathspey Bus" and "Reel Bus". I rode on the latter. Although I was a bit apprehensive at first about the trip, it turned out to be a wonderful experience. Bonnie Rutherford, a younger member of the SFFC, helped me to come up with the name of this tune.'

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/397 <![CDATA[Ancient Stones]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:38-07:00

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My long-time friend Margaret Lawrie from Birmingham, England, composed this lovely air. The tune was the title track on her latest CD recording, which was dedicated to ten-year-old Rose Cronin, who died of leukemia. Meg told me that she took pictures in the grounds and graveyard of Hereford Cathedral and began to think of all the musicians down through the ages who had played music in this ancient place. Thus, 'Ancient Stones'. Margaret and Michael Burnham perform the tune on this track on piano and violin.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/631 <![CDATA[Savage Paddy]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:12-07:00

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My nephew Damien Connolly plays his own composition on this track. I asked Damien for information on the tune and its title. He writes: 'I composed this tune on an old fiddle I purchased at an auction. The fiddle itself wasn't great, but it had a really nice tone. One day while playing around with the overtones on the lower strings, this tune came out. I just loved how gutsy the tune sounded so I called it "Savage Paddy". Whenever I love anything I say that it's "savage".'

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/499 <![CDATA[Boat to Bofin, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:52-07:00

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Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies fame composed this happy jig. In her own words Joanie tells us of her inspiration: 'I was inspired to write this tune after a very rocky ferry ride to the beautiful island of Inishbofin off the coast of Connemara in County Galway'.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/721 <![CDATA[Follies of Youth, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:26-07:00

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Another young player who contributed to this project is Sean Gavin from Detroit, son of fiddle player and teacher Mick Gavin from Meelick, County Clare. Here Sean plays the flute on one of his own compositions, a strathspey that somehow must have many stories behind its title. He is joined by his musical friend, fiddle player Devin Shepherd.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/500 <![CDATA[Key in the Kiln, The]]>
'This tune "The Key in the Cill" or "The Key in the Kiln" was popular in Woodford when I was growing up. It was a great favourite of Bill Logue's. Bill took a strong sweet tone from a flute and had amazing breath control. As with many Irish tunes, the title doesn't have to make sense. "Cill" being the Irish for "church", the title could mean "The Key in the Church", or "church key", or the latter sometimes a humorous name for a corkscrew, or "Kiln" being a place for burning lime, it may have some strange connection with that. The tune is important for me because I made my debut along with Bill's son Josie at a church concert playing it on two fifes. I was ten and Josie was eight and it was the only tune we both knew. My mother had some words to that melody as follows:

"The girls are on the lookout young men,
The flowers are blooming,
It is Spring and June will surely a wedding bring.
The girls are on the lookout young men."'

Slán, Charlie.]]>
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Monsignor Charles Coen recorded the jig on this track. In his own words, Father Charlie tells us what he knows about the tune:

'This tune "The Key in the Cill" or "The Key in the Kiln" was popular in Woodford when I was growing up. It was a great favourite of Bill Logue's. Bill took a strong sweet tone from a flute and had amazing breath control. As with many Irish tunes, the title doesn't have to make sense. "Cill" being the Irish for "church", the title could mean "The Key in the Church", or "church key", or the latter sometimes a humorous name for a corkscrew, or "Kiln" being a place for burning lime, it may have some strange connection with that. The tune is important for me because I made my debut along with Bill's son Josie at a church concert playing it on two fifes. I was ten and Josie was eight and it was the only tune we both knew. My mother had some words to that melody as follows:

"The girls are on the lookout young men,
The flowers are blooming,
It is Spring and June will surely a wedding bring.
The girls are on the lookout young men."'

Slán, Charlie.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/632 <![CDATA[Chabonelle]]> 2019-05-10T10:03:31-07:00

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Another fine tune from fiddle player and composer Mrs. Matilda Murdoch from New Brunswick, Canada. Maeve Donnelly from Quin in the County of Clare delightfully performs it on this track with an Irish interpretation. This was exactly what I was hoping to hear, and it also pleased Mrs. Murdoch very much.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/633 <![CDATA[Old Mill Road, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:12-07:00

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As I travel throughout the country, I have a compulsive habit of looking at street signs in the hope of discovering a good name or title for a new musical composition. I have seen a few variations on the above title and often wondered what road accordionist Paddy O'Brien was referring to when he named this tune, one of his many fine compositions. Paddy, from County Offaly, has been a friend and inspiration for many years. I have fond memories of him and me as teenagers playing music together in Tullamore, County Offaly. We were both young then, but the memories live on.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/501 <![CDATA[Old as the Hills]]> 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.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:52-07:00

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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

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/502 <![CDATA[Poke and a Tickle, A]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:53-07:00

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While reflecting on Eric Eid-Reiner's musical compositions, my first thought was that he created 'happy music'. Indeed, as Eric himself described it, this is 'a light-hearted jig with a sense of humour'. Eric kindly arrived at Boston College one Sunday morning at eight o'clock to record this tune in the Irish Room at Gasson Hall. An unreasonable and unnatural hour, one might say, for a musician to record. Thanks for being so gracious, as always, Eric.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/503 <![CDATA[Sarah's Valentine]]> Down by the Glenside, which he recorded with our mutual friend Helen Kisiel playing piano.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:53-07:00

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Eamon Flynn composed this slow jig for his daughter Sarah on Valentine's Day when she was five years old. Sarah asked her dad to 'do a song' for her. What a lovely present to get, one that will remain documented forever. This recording comes to us courtesy of Eamon. It was taken from his CD Down by the Glenside, which he recorded with our mutual friend Helen Kisiel playing piano.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/634 <![CDATA[Check Your Balance]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:12-07:00

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The wonderful young fiddle player Devin Shepherd, from Chicago, composed this tune and gave it to me for this collection. Lovely music, Devin. He gives us the tune's history: 'My idea with this tune was to compose something that sounded truly traditional. Therefore, I was delighted when the Cork fiddle player John Daly, who lived in Chicago for many years, commented that this tune was "like one the old guys would play back home"'.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/635 <![CDATA[Healy's House]]> In a Creative Mood, a recording which is a must for admirers of his music and compositions. The title of the tune refers to the home of Richie's sister Margaret in West Cork, where he stayed while making the recording. Richard is accompanied by Micheál O'Rourke on piano, who is heard elsewhere in this collection ('The Galway Jig' and 'The Plains of Mayo') on the fiddle.]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:12-07:00

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This fine tune comes to us through the courtesy of Richard Dwyer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer from west County Cork, now living in Ennis, County Clare. Richard graciously allowed me to use this excerpt from his solo accordion and fiddle CD In a Creative Mood, a recording which is a must for admirers of his music and compositions. The title of the tune refers to the home of Richie's sister Margaret in West Cork, where he stayed while making the recording. Richard is accompanied by Micheál O'Rourke on piano, who is heard elsewhere in this collection ('The Galway Jig' and 'The Plains of Mayo') on the fiddle.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/443 <![CDATA[Flee as a Bird]]> here.)]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:45-07:00

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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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