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- ComhaltasLive #345 (Full Programme)
- 5 April 2011
ComhaltasLive Programme #345.
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- ComhaltasLive #345-5: Pat Foley
- 2 April 2011
All-Ireland Senior Button Accordion Champion 2005 Pat Foley from Glin, Co. Limerick plays a selection of tunes popularised by Joe Burke - an air: “The Brig of Edinburgh” and “The Salamanca Reel”. Recorded in January 2005.
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- ComhaltasLive #345-5: Pat Foley
- 2 April 2011
All-Ireland Senior Button Accordion Champion 2005 Pat Foley from Glin, Co. Limerick plays a selection of tunes popularised by Joe Burke - an air: “The Brig of Edinburgh” and “The Salamanca Reel”. Recorded in January 2005.
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- ComhaltasLive #344 (Full Programme)
- 23 March 2011
ComhaltasLive Clár #344.
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- ComhaltasLive #344-8: Fionn Morrison
- 23 March 2011
All-Ireland Champion 2010 on Uilleann Pipes Slow Airs, Fionn Morrison, CCÉ Craobh Naithí, Dublin plays a slow air: “Cailíní san Fhachtóirí”, followed by “The Coolea Jig”.
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- ComhaltasLive #342 (Full Programme)
- 22 February 2011
ComhaltasLive Programme #342.
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- ComhaltasLive #342-4: Matt Deane
- 19 February 2011
From Newcastle-on-Tyne, England Matt Deane plays the slow air “Aisling Geal” followed by “The Green Mountain Reel” after winning the All-Ireland Under-18 Tin Whistle Slow Airs Title 2003 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
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- ComhaltasLive #340 (Full Programme)
- 30 January 2011
ComhaltasLive Programme #340.
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- ComhaltasLive #340-2: Alex Reidinger
- 23 January 2011
From Ashville, North Carolina, USA, Alex Reidinger plays a concertina solo - a slow air called “The Bright Lady” followed by a reel which she learned from harpist Gráinne Hambly. Alex is also an excellent fiddle player.
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- ComhaltasLive #338 (Full Programme)
- 30 December 2010
ComhaltasLive Programme #338 features eight performances from the Senior Fiddle Competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2010 in Cavan.
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- ComhaltasLive #338-8: Courtney Cullen Plays a Slow Air
- 29 December 2010
Slow Air played by Courtney Cullen, CCÉ Craobh Chualann, when she took first place in the Senior Fiddle Slow Airs Competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2010 in Cavan.
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- ComhaltasLive #318 (Full Programme)
- 3 June 2010
This programme includes a recent May Day session at Comhaltas Headquarters in Monkstown, Co. Dublin.
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- ComhaltasLive #318-8: Tara Breen
- 1 June 2010
Slow air played by Tara Breen, CCE Doora-Barefield, Co. Clare when she took second place in the Senior Fiddle Competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009. Incidentally, Tara won the Slow Airs Competition.
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- ComhaltasLive #312 (Full Programme)
- 1 April 2010
This programme features some street sessions from Fleadh 2001 and performances by Scoil Éigse Tutors at Fleadh 2009.
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- ComhaltasLive #312-4: Brian McNamara and Gráinne Hambly
- 28 March 2010
Two Scoil Éigse Tutors at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009 - uileann piper Brian McNamara (Leitrim) and Gráinne Hambly (Mayo) on harp. They play a very old air collected around 1700 called “The Glergy’s Lamentation”, followed by a slip jig often associated with New York fiddle player Larry Redican.
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- ComhaltasLive #279 (Full Programme)
- 19 November 2008
This week we feature Erin Loughran on fiddle, a duet with Darren Breslin (button accordion) and Laura Beagon (fiddle), and from the Senior Fiddle competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008, the fiddle players Maeve Flanagan, Katie Lawrence, Johnny Canning and Aurora Burd.
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- ComhaltasLive #279-4: Katie Lawrence playing a slow air
- 16 November 2008
Katie Lawrence from Isle of Man plays a slow air in the Senior Fiddle competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. Katie and her sister Kirsty (piano) were members of the Isle of Man Céilí Band, which made its first-ever appearance at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2008.
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- ComhaltasLive #278 (Full Programme)
- 12 November 2008
This week we present music from the 2008 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann fiddle competitions, held at Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August. From the Senior Fiddle competition we see the playing of Evelyn Healy, Peader O’Connor, Rónán Mac Grianna, Ciara Brennan, Melanie Houton, Shona Ní Fhlatharta and Seámus Mulready, along with Edel Quinn from the Senior Fiddle Slow Air competition.
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- ComhaltasLive #278-6: Edel Quinn plays a Slow Air
- 9 November 2008
Edel Quinn of Baile Eachaidh Comhaltas in Derry took 2nd place in the Senior Fiddle Slow Air competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008. Here Edel plays the very old air, “Sliabh na mBan”.
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- Miss Hamilton
- 12 October 2008
From the “Echoes of Erin 2008” Comhaltas Tour CD, the Comhaltas Tour Ensemble plays the harp piece, “Miss Hamilton”. Miss Hamilton is included in the Bunting Collection having been notated by Bunting from the from harper Patrick Linden in 1802, although the scholar Dónal O Súilleabháin established that the original Bunting manuscript gave Hugh Higgins as the source of the tune. The piece was composed by harper Cornelius Lyons in 1706.