Programme: ComhaltasLive #211: Music from London
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- ComhaltasLive #211: Music from London (Full programme)
This week, we present music from London on fiddle, harp and uilleann pipes.
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- ComhaltasLive #211 - 6: Tim Dowd on flute
Switching now from uilleann pipes to concert flute, Tim Dowd continues with another selection of jigs.
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- ComhaltasLive #211 - 5: Tim Dowd on pipes
This weeks’ Tutorial tune is a four-part jig, “The Maid at the Spinning Wheel”, played on uilleann pipes by Tim Dowd, well-known on the traditional music circuit in England.
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- ComhaltasLive #211 - 4: Katie Crean, harper
Comhaltas Youth Officer for London, Katie Crean, commenced playing classical music on concert flute and after a few years took up traditional Irish music on the harp. Katie plays an old Irish air, “The Foggy Dew”.
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- ComhaltasLive #211 - 3: John Burke, Jr.
John Burke (Jr.) plays two jigs on one of his father’s fiddles: the first was composed by Josephine Keegan and the second was composed by John Whelan, well-known accordionist.
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- ComhaltasLive #211 - 2: John Burke Sr., fiddle maker
John Burke (senior) emigrated from his native Co. Sligo to England in 1951 and with his wife, the late Joan Burke, joined the Comhaltas movement. Here John gives a brief account of his involvement in fiddle making.
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- ComhaltasLive #211 - 1: Aidan Burke
Composer and fiddle player Aidan Burke from West London Comhaltas plays three reels which he composed, called “Feel the bow,”, “Thanks to Gavin” and “Burke’s”. He continues into a jig version of the old reel “Jenny’s Chickens” and concludes with his own interpretation of that reel.
