Íoslódáil (PDF) - Comhaltas Archive

TREOIR
After three decades of Annual Tours a
Comhaltas group of musicians singers
and dancers was due to travel to USA
and Canada in October 200 I for the
30 th Annual Comhaltas Tour.
Because of the tragic events of
September I I th 200 I the Tour was
cancelled.
Now one year later we resume our
series of Annual Tours; encouraged by
memories of wonderful music and
friendships shared down through the
years we are delighted to be going
'Back to America' on Tour once more.
About the Tunes
Track I - Group Reels: Mary of
the Grove/Micho Russell's (2: 17)
The fi rst reel featured in the 1912
Roche Collection of Traditional Irish
Music, which the second tune was
collected by Brendan Breathnach
under t he t itle Upstairs in a Tent,
though it is generally associated with
t he name Micho Russell's.
Track 2 - Lindsay Moynagh
(harp): jigs - Tommy People's/
Port an Luaithreadiiin (2:07)*
The first jig was composed some
years ago by the highly acclaim ed
Donegal fidd ler, To mmy Peoples.
Tommy also plays t he t une as a waltz,
to be heard on his most recent
recording, The Quite Glen. Port
an Luaithreadan is a
composition of legendary
fi ddler, Junior Crehan of
Mullagh, Co. Clare (1908 -
1998), and has featu red on a
number of recordings in
recent t imes.
Track 3 - Daire Mulhern:
Reels - The Thirteen
Arches/
Richard Dwyer's (2:21)*
The Thirteen Arches was
composed by Seamus
IP-..,.14 Connolly and recorded on
his Green Linnet solo album
'Here and There' GLCD
1098. The second reel was
composed by Cork accordionist,
Richard Dwyer, and featured on a
1970's recording by East Galway fluteplayer
Paddy Carty, an album which was
subsequently reissued on CD by
Shanachie in 1997 under the title -
Paddy Carty (SHA 34017).
Track 4 - Group jigs: Did you see
my man/The Collier's Jig (2:02)
The first jig appeared on two
significant recordings in the late 1970's,
the first on Mairtfn O'Connor's debut
recording on the Mulligan label,
entitled The Connachtman's Rambles,
and later in 1979 on the Green Linnet
reissue of the Mulligan recording of
Kevin Burke & Micheal 6 Domhnaill
entitled Promenade. The jig has also
been referred to as Port an Bhrathair
and Sonny Brogan's. The second tune is
a jig version of the commonly played
reel of same name, and is known also
as Do You Want Any More.
Track 5 - Padraig McGovern:
Reels-Jenny's Wedding/The Big
Reel of Ballynacally (2:24)*
jenny's Wedding is a tune which featured
initially in O'Nei/l's Music of Ireland (No.
1479) of 1903, and continues to feature
in the popular repertoire to this day.
The second reel is a version of a tune
which featured in the repertoire of
Sean 6 Riada's Ceoltoiri Chualann as 'Ri!
Mhor Bhaile an Chalaidh'.
Track 6 - Aistrid Ni Mhongain:
Song - You Rambling Boys of
Pleasure (4: 18)
You Rambling Boys of Pleasure, is one of
those songs passed on to this
generation by singers such as Robert
Cinnamond and Paddy Tunney. WB.
Yeats heard an old woman singing a
version of this song in Ballisodare Co.
Sligo many years ago. Having listened
patiently to the song the poet went
away and later penned his famous
poem 'Down by the Sally Gardens' which
he sub-titled 'An Old Song Resung'.
Words and music of the Rambling Boys
of Pleasure were included by Sean 0
Baoill in The Irish Song Tradition ; it was
also published in TREOIR No. 4 1996.
Track 7 - Sharon Carroll: Reels -
In Memory of Coleman/The
Broken Pledge (2:38)
The first of these reels was composed
by Cavan-born composer, Ed Reavy
(1898 - 1988), in remembrance of the
legendary Sligo fiddler, Michael
Coleman. The second reel is another
addition from the 1903 O'Neill's Music of
Ireland, which featured on the 1966 A
Tribute to Michael Co/eman album on the
Shaskeen label through the playing of
Joe Burke,Andy McGann & Felix Dolan.
This recording subsequently re-released
in 1994 on the Green Linnet label.
Track 8 - Anne-Marie McGowan:
Recitation (I :23)
Threshing Morning from Patrick
Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn'.
Track 9 - Ciara Brennan:Air/Reel
- Splendid Isolation/Kilty Town
(5:12)*
The air, Splendid Isolation, which is also
often performed as a reel, was
composed by Armagh Fiddler, Brendan
McGlinchey. This is followed by
another recent composition from the
noted Leitrim composer and
musician, Charlie Lennon.
Track 10 - Kerrie Herrity: jigs -
Ciariin O'Grady's/Gan Ainm
(2:12)*
The first tune was composed by
concer tina player, Ciaran O 'Grady of
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