Programme: ComhaltasLive Programme #290
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- ComhaltasLive #290 (Full Programme)
This week we present some very talented traditional Irish musicians: Carmel O’Dea (fiddle), Bríd Harper (fiddle) with Danny O’Mahony (button accordion), Evelyn Healy (fiddle), Katie O’Sullivan (concertina), the great John Regan (button accordion) and Erin McGeown (fiddle) with Colin Greene (banjo).
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- ComhaltasLive #290-6: Erin McGeown and Colin Greene play some Reels
A set of reels played by fiddle player Erin McGeown from Craigavon, Co. Armagh and Colin Greene (banjo) from Cahir, Co. Tipperary. This selection was recorded in 2003 at the Comhaltas headquarters, Cultúrlann na hÉireann in Monkstown, Co. Dublin.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-5: John Regan on the Button Accordion
Button accordion player John Regan, a Sligo native and now living in Dublin, plays a set of jigs: “Dominick’s Farewell to Cashel” composed by Josie McDermott and an old version of “Fasten the Leggin”. John was All-Ireland Champion in 1970.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-4: Katie O’Sullivan on Concertina
Two reels, “The broken pledge” and “Martin Wynne’s”, played on concertina by Katie O’ Sullivan from the Murroe/Cappamore branch of Comhaltas in Limerick. As well as teaching traditional music, Katie also teaches clasical piano.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-3: A set of jigs played by Evelyn Healy
“The Glendarragh Jig” was composed by accordionist and teacher Willie Larkin from Templeglantine, Co. Limerick. The jig is played here by fiddle player Evelyn Healy, also from West Limerick, who learned her music from Willie Larkin. She concludes the set with a jig, “The Jocelyn Tree”, which she learned from the playing of Oisín Mac Diarmada. This jig was composed by Donegal fiddle player, Tommy Peoples. Tommy also plays it as a slow air on his album, “The Quiet Glen” released in 2005.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-2: Bríd Harper and Danny O’Mahony
Donegal-born fiddle player Bríd Harper and accordion player Danny O’Mahony from Co. Kerry play a selection of reels commencing with “The Drunken Landlady” and concluding with “Devanney’s Goat”.
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- ComhaltasLive #290-1: Carmel O’Dea with a set of reels
A set of reels by Co. Clare fiddle player Carmel O’Dea. The reels are “Spike Island Lassies” and “Molloy’s”.