Damien Mullane
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- ComhaltasLive #205 - 6: Damien Mullane
- 20 April 2007
Damien Mullane of West London Comhaltas with a selection of reels, the first of which was popularised by button accordion player P.J. Hernon.
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- ComhaltasLive #205 - 2: Damien Mullane
- 16 April 2007
Damien Mullane from West London Comhaltas, the 2005 All-Ireland Senior Button Accordion Champion, plays a hornpipe and a reel.
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- New Mown Meadow/Bonnie Kate
- 5 December 2006
- This first reel has long been a favourite of melodeon players, each of them finding it gave them the scope to explore the potential of their instrument. The final reel of the album,‘Bonnie Kate’, recorded with Jenny’s Chickens by Coleman in 1934, is one of the all-time favourites in the traditional repertoire.
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- An Buachaill Caol Dubh/The House Keeper
- 5 December 2006
- Damien learnt this setting of ‘An Buachaillín Bán’from the Baile na nGall singer and accordion player Séamus Ó Beaglaoich. The House Keeper No.82 occurs in the 1998 Publication Tunes of The Munster Pipers – Irish Traditional Music for James Goodman Manuscripts (Ed. Hugh Shields/Pub ITMA).
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- Tom Ward’s Downfall/The Ireland We Knew
- 5 December 2006
- ‘Tom Ward’s Downfall’ has been part of ‘core’ traditional repertoire since the legendary South Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman recorded it in April 1922. The second reel was composed by Ed Reavy (1898-1988), the fiddler and composer who emigrated from Cavan to the U.S. in 1912 and settled in Philadelphia.