Ãoslódáil (PDF) - Comhaltas Archive
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Ãoslódáil (PDF) - Comhaltas Archive
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THEY SAILED AWAY FROM DUBLIN BAY<br />
New CD by Liam Farrell and Joe Whelan<br />
Some may have<br />
been learned in<br />
their homelands,<br />
other are current<br />
favourites from<br />
their constantly<br />
shifting repertoire.<br />
As Joe says, 'One<br />
tune falls off the<br />
conveyer belt and<br />
another joins it! '<br />
The names given<br />
They sailed away from Dublin Bay'<br />
features two of Ireland's greatest<br />
traditional performers Liam Farrell<br />
from Tyrone on banjo and Joe<br />
Whelan from Offaly on button<br />
accordion, along with young<br />
Roscommon flute player James<br />
Carty and the piano<br />
accompaniment of London's<br />
Reg Hall.<br />
Liam has, of course, had a long<br />
association with <strong>Comhaltas</strong>,<br />
having joined many of our tours<br />
over the years and he is still in the<br />
mainstream of Irish traditional<br />
music in London.<br />
The booklet with the CD contains<br />
extensive notes and photographs<br />
reflecting the background to these<br />
recordings.<br />
The recordings provide a window<br />
on a part of the current Irish<br />
traditional music scene in London.<br />
The music has been gleaned from<br />
years of playing alongside some of<br />
the great names in traditional music<br />
who came to London from all over<br />
Ireland to live, work and, in their<br />
spare time, play music.<br />
Liam Farrell and Joe Whelan play an<br />
eclectic mixture of reels, jigs,<br />
hornpipes, polkas and waltzes.<br />
be the well known ones,<br />
others are named (in timehonoured<br />
fashion) after the<br />
musicians they learned them from,<br />
while some are just remembered<br />
by the place where they were first<br />
heard.As one noted musician said,<br />
'If you know the titles of every tune<br />
you play they you don't know<br />
enough tunes!'<br />
The CD is available in Ireland from<br />
Claddagh Records in Dublin. Mail<br />
order from the above address at<br />
€20 plus €1.50 p&p (euro cheques<br />
made to J Howson) or credit card<br />
orders for +44 (0) 1449673695.