Button Accordion
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- ComhaltasLive #309-4: Ned Kelly & Michael Harrison
- 1 March 2010
From Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, All-Ireland Button Accordion Champion for 1992 Ned Kelly and All-Ireland Fiddle Champion for 2005 Michael Harrison play a selection of reels commencing with “Trim the Velvet”. This recording was made in 2003.
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- ComhaltasLive #307-4: The Pearl River Céilí Band
- 9 February 2010
A selection of jigs, “The Coolea” and “The Road to Boffin” played by the Pearl River Céilí Band from New York, USA.
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- ComhaltasLive #306-3: The Triogue Céilí Band
- 30 January 2010
A selection of jigs played by the Triogue Céilí Band from Portlaoise Co. Laois, who took 3rd place at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009. The first jig is “McIntyres Fancy” composed by John Brady.
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- ComhaltasLive #305-8: St. Roch’s Céilí Band at Fleadh 2009
- 25 January 2010
St. Roch’s Céilí Band from Glasgow, Scotland, with a selection of reels at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009, commencing with “Kiss Me Kate”.
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- ComhaltasLive #304-1: The 2009 Scoil Éigse Tutors’ Concert
- 6 January 2010
From the Scoil Éigse Tutors’ Concert at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009, a selection of reels played by a group of the tutors. They play “The Moving Pint” and “Dog Big and Dog Little”, which were recorded by Frankie Gavin in the 1980s.
The tutors are: Pádraig McGovern from Co. Leitrim, pipes; Oisín MacDiarmada (fiddle) and Maíre NicDhiarmada (flute), both from Co. Sligo; Pádraig King from Co. Limerick, accordion; Sabina McCague from Co. Monaghan, fiddle; Maura Walsh form Co. Kerry, concertina and Eileen Gannon from St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on the harp.
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- ComhaltasLive #303 (Full Programme)
- 10 November 2009
This week we present music from the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
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- Darren Breslin at a Fleadh Session
- 1 November 2009
All-Ireland Senior button accordion champion for 2008, Darren Breslin takes the direct route to a session in the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009. From Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, Darren joins his grandfather Brian (on fiddle), Michael Curran (button accordion) and Gerry McMahon (guitar), both from Co. Tyrone. They play a set of reels: “The Boys of Ballysodare” and “The Bucks of Oranmore”.
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- ComhaltasLive #299-7: Scoil Éigse Tutors’ Concert
- 29 October 2009
The 2008 Scoil Éigse tutors play two reels at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008 in Tullamore: “The Beauty Spot” and “Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrell”
Tutors included Paddy Ryan, Kathleen Nesbitt, Connie O’Connell and Nicky McAuliffe on fiddles; Nóirín Ní Shíulleabhán, tin whistle; Ann Mc Auliffe, accordion; Maeve Ní Lochlainn and Mary Tisdall O’Sullivan, concertinas and Maria Lynn McHugh, piano.
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- ComhaltasLive #298 (Full Programme)
- 21 October 2009
This week we bring you some music from past musical celebrations. We’ll hear from the Kearns family of Sligo, the group Crinniú, Oliver Diviney (button accordion) with Pádraig O’Reilly (piano), fiddle player Michael O’Rourke, Aoife and Ronan Greene on concertina and fiddle, Martin and Damien Connolly on button accordion and fiddle and a New York Céilí Band.
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- ComhaltasLive #298-6: Martin and Damien Connolly
- 19 October 2009
Recorded in 2003, Martin Connolly (button accordion) and his son Damien (fiddle) play two jigs: “The Lark in the Morning” and “Cooley’s”. Martin is of course the manufacturer of the popular Kincora accordion, which he is playing. He lives in Ennis, Co. Clare.
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- ComhaltasLive #298-3: Oliver Diviney and Pádraig O’Reilly
- 15 October 2009
Co. Galway accordionist Oliver Diviney with Pádraig O’Reilly (keyboard) playing two jigs: “Kevin O’Loughlins” (composed by Kevin), and a tune which he learned from concertina player Martín Mike Fahy.
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- ComhaltasLive #298-2: Crinniú at the Cooley/Collins Festival
- 14 October 2009
Here is the group “Crinniú” playing at the Cooley/Collins Festival Concert in Gort in October 2007. They play three tunes: “The Boys of Bluehill” hornpipe, followed by the reels “O’Flanagan Meets O’Hanlon”, and “The Money Musk”. Members of the group are: Jack Talty (keyboard), Ann Marie Grogan (flute), Caitlíin Nic Gabhann (concertina), Siobhán O’Donnell (bodhrán and vocals), Damien O’Reilly (accordion) and Áine Bird (fiddle).
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- ComhaltasLive #300-1: Barn dances from Tullamore
- 23 September 2009
We present a selection of Barn Dances played by Scoil Éigse Tutors at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008, fimed in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.. Playing here are Niall Keegan (flute), Gary Lynch (fiddle), Peter Staunton (accordion) and Ann Marie Acosta (piano). The tunes were all originally recorded by Michael and James Morrison in the 1920s/30s.
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- ComhaltasLive #301 (Full Programme)
- 20 September 2009
This week we present some music recorded at the 2005 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, held in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. We also feature music from the Clare Champions concert of the same year, featuring returning Fleadh champions from that county.
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- ComhaltasLive #301-1: Letterkenny Street Session
- 14 September 2009
Nuala Hehir (button accordion) from Co. Clare leads a street session at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2005 in Letterkenney, Co. Donegal. They play two reels: “The Skylark” and “The Humours of Lissadell”.
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- ComhaltasLive #302-4: Fleadh Session from 2008
- 6 September 2009
A street session at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, including: accordion player Tom Lawlor from Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Teresa Larkin (piano accordion) and Dermot Maher (bodhrán), both from Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, and Joanne Ward from Castleconnell, Co. Limerick on fiddle.
They play two reels: “George White’s” and “The Corner House”, which was composed by Paddy Kelly. Incidentally, Tom is also well known as a repairer and tuner of accordion and concestinas and has manufactured a number of accordions.
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- ComhaltasLive #294-4: Edward Breen plays a four-part jig
- 11 August 2009
The four-part jig “The maid at the Spinning Wheel” played by Edward Breen from Doore/Barefield CCE, Co. Clare after he won the All-Ireland U-18 button accordion title in 2004.
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- ComhaltasLive #294-2: Three All-Ireland Champions
- 8 July 2009
Three All-Ireland champions were recorded in 2004 playing a set of reels: “Mossy Banks” and “The Small Hills of Offaly”. The second reel was composed by Co. Offaly accordion player Paddy O’Brien.
The musicians are Michael Harrison (fiddle) of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Janine Redmond (button accordion) and James Mahon (flute), both from Dublin.
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- ComhaltasLive #291 (Full Programme)
- 6 July 2009
This week, ComhaltasLive includes the playing of Damien McKee (button accordion) and Séan Óg Graham (guitar), Áine Bird (fiddle), Ita and Matt Cunnigham (fiddle and button accordion), Mary Crowley (piano accordion), Coleen Shanks (whistle) and the playing of Pádraig O’Neil (fiddle) and Lindsay Moynagh (harp).
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- ComhaltasLive #291-4: Mary Crowley on Piano Accordion
- 3 July 2009
Playing music from her native West Cork, piano accordion player Mary Crowley from Skibbereen plays two very old hornpipes: “West on the Hill” and “Kit O’Mahoney’s”. Notice Mary’s subtle variations and ornamentations, particularly in “Kit O’Mahoney’s”.