ComhaltasLive #235 - 3: Innisfree Céilí Band Reels from the 2007 All-Ireland
Moving to the Senior Céilí Bands competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2007, two reels from the Innisfree Céilí Band of Sligo, who took second place (having taken 3rd place in 2006). The reels are: “Fergal O’Gara” and “Trim the Velvet”.
Members of the Innisfree Céilí Band are Oisín and Cormac Mac Diarmada and Damien O’Brien on fiddles, Damien Stenson, Máire Nic Dhiarmada and David Sheridan on flutes, Paul Finn on button accordion, Oliver Loughlin on piano accordion, Darraigh Kelly on drums and Charles O’Connor on piano.
- Date
- 13 Dec, 2007
- Tune
- Fergal O'Gara/Trim the Velvet
- Created By
- Willie Fogarty
- Source
- ComhaltasLive
| Performers/Subjects | Instruments |
|---|---|
| Oisín and Cormac Mac Diarmada and Damien O’Brien | Fiddles |
| Damien Stenson, Máire Nic Dhiarmada and David Sheridan | Flutes |
| Paul Finn | Button Accordion |
| Oliver Loughlin | Piano Accordion |
| Darraigh Kelly | Drums |
| Charles O’Connor | Piano |
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Programme: ComhaltasLive #235: Concert Tour and the Fleadh
- ComhaltasLive #235: 2007 Concert Tour and the Fleadh
- ComhaltasLive #235 - 7: Jigs from a Scoil Éigse Quartet
- ComhaltasLive #235 - 6: Street Session with Karen Tweed
- ComhaltasLive #235 - 4: Allow Céilí Band Jigs at the 2007 All-Ireland
- ComhaltasLive #235 - 2: Nadia Markey on Harp
- ComhaltasLive #235 - 1: Katie Boyle on Fiddle
- ComhaltasLive #235 - 5: The Tribes Céilí Band Hornpipe from the 2007 All-Ireland
Comments
- 21 January 2008
- 2:01 AM GMT
No.... I’m sorry but they should have won it!!! That was just soooo beautiful.
And I just love their intensity.
- 24 April 2008
- 7:04 PM GMT
’ve listened to the ceili band competition frequently fromlast november and I still can’t understand how the Inisfree ceili band was considered to be only second.
Ah well Ireland’s rarin’ them yet.
Georgeous music and not too fast. Would be lovely to dance to. Up Sligo!