Programme: ComhaltasLive #203: Music from North America
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- ComhaltasLive #203: Full Programme
This week, we bring you music from the North American Comhaltas Convention in Ottawa Canada in April 2005. The 2007 Convention will take place in Atlanta, Georgia from 12th to 15th of April.
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- ComhaltasLive #203 - 6: Canadian session
There were many great informal sessions of music, like this one, throughout the 2005 Comhaltas North America Convention in Ottawa. Here is a selection of reels, “The Ravelled Hank of Yarn” and “The Old Bush.”
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- ComhaltasLive #203 - 5: Jigs from Ottawa
Fiddler John Dahms is joined by Jeremy Keddy on Uilleann pipes with a selection of jigs: “Sixpenny Money” and “The Lark in the Morning”. They are both from Ottawa and learned many their tunes from Uilleann Piper Debbie Quigley who lives in Toronto, originally from Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland.
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- ComhaltasLive #203 - 4: Convention Trio
A selection of jigs: “The Rolling Waves” and “The Butlers of Gwent Avenue” played on two fiddles by Matt Peppin and John Dahms, both from Ottawa. Piano accompaniment is by Conor McGurk from Queens, New York.
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- ComhaltasLive #203 - 3: Frank Cassidy
A tin whistle solo by Frank Cassidy originally from Belmont, Co. Offaly and now living in Ottawa. This is a hornpipe called “The White Pines” which Frank composed.
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- ComhaltasLive #203 - 2: Mike Rafferty
Even though he emigrated to the USA fifty-eight years ago, Mike Rafferty’s native East Galway style of music has remained intact. Residing in New Jersey, Mike released a much-acclaimed CD a few years ago: “Mike Rafferty Speed 78” and relates that he learned one of the featured tunes “Fr. John’s Jubilee” composed by John Brady from ComhaltasLive.
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- ComhaltasLive #203 - 1: Canadian duet
Recorded in April 2003 at the North America Comhaltas Convention, an Uilleann Pipes and Fiddle duet by Jeremy Keddy and John Dahms respectively. They are both from Ottawa and play two reels, “Famous Ballymote” and “The Bucks of Oranmore”.
