ComhaltasLive #197 Segment 2 - John Whelan on Button Accordion

A selection of slip jigs from the O’Neill Collection, played by one of North America’s greatest exponents of the button accordion, John Whelan, living in Milford Connecticut. The slip jigs are “Hunting the Hare”, “The Swaggering Jig” (which is this week’s Tutorial), followed by “Hardyman the Fiddler”

Date
Feb 19, 2007
Tune
Hunting the Hare, The Swaggering Jig, Hardyman the Fiddler
Created By
Willie Fogarty
Source
ComhaltasLive
Performers/Subjects Instruments
John Whelan Button Accordion

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Programme: ComhaltasLive #197

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20 February 2007
9:02 PM GMT

Great stuff give us some more. Any DVDs of John Whelan? Where is John actually from?\Back in the late 70s. I played lots of his music and loved it.
Maggie

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