Guitar
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- ComhaltasLive #307-6: Fleadh 2009 Street Session
- 11 February 2010
A street session at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009 with musicians Eddie Whelan, guitar, Patsy Moloney and Marcas Ó Murchú, concert flute and Mick O’Connor, banjo. They play a selection of reels commencing with “Lucy Campbell’s” and ending with “Last Night’s Fun”.
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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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- ComhaltasLive #303-5: An Impromptu Fleadh Session
- 6 November 2009
An impromptu session by four musicians from Boherbuí, Co. Cork: Billy Herlihy, concertina; Bill O’Gorman, banjo; Bill’s brother Mikey O’Gorman, fiddle and Michael O’Connor on guitar. They play the “Fly by Night” hornpipe and the “M and M” reel at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2009.
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- ComhaltasLive #303-1: 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 #302-3: Attracta and Friends
- 6 September 2009
Fiddle player and chairperson of the organising committee of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Attracta Brady from Tullamore is joined by Limerick flute player Patsy Maloney. With guitar accompaniment, they play two reels: “The Reel of Rio” (composed by Seán Ryan) and “Castle Kelly”.
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- ComhaltasLive #291 (Full Programme)
- 7 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 #291-1: Damien McKee and Séan Óg Graham
- 1 July 2009
Co. Antrim musicians Damien McKee (button accordion) and Séan Óg Graham (guitar) play a set of reels, concluding with “Paddy Mill’s Dream” and “Hughie Gillespies’s”.
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- ComhaltasLive #289 (Full Programme)
- 21 June 2009
This week we bring you the fine playing of Jimmy Keane and Seán Cleland from Chicago, Dylan Foley, Rose Flanagan and Donal Clancy from New York, Aisling Mc Phillips from Fermanagh, Dean Warner of Armagh, Sligo player Deirdre Hurley and the Bridge Céilí Band.
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- ComhaltasLive #289-2: Dylan Foley and Rose Flanagan
- 15 June 2009
A selection of jigs: “The Killimor” and “Pat McKenna’s” played by New York fiddle players Dylan Foley (presently the All-Ireland U-18 champion) and Rose Flanagan, with guitar accompaniment by Donal Clancy. They go on to play two reels: “Spike Island Lassies” and “Tom Moylan’s”.
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- ComhaltasLive #284-2: Cruinniú at Nyah
- 9 January 2009
A selection of reels played by the group “Cruinniú” at the Nyah Festival in Cavan in March 2007. The first two reels, composed by Vincent Broderick, are “The Milky Way” and “The Crock of Gold”. The third reel is “The Green Mountain”. The Nyah Festival is organised each year by Cavan accordion player and teacher Martin Donohoe.
The members of the group are: Áine Bird (fiddle), Anne Marie Grogan (flute), Caitlín Ní Gabhann (concertina), Siobhán O’onnell (bodhrán and vocals), Jack Talty (piano) and Ryan Graham (guitar). Accordionist Damien O’Reilly was unavoidably absent on the night.
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- ComhaltasLive #282 (Full Programme)
- 28 December 2008
This week on ComhaltasLive we feature the fine playing of the Under-18 Trio champions Niamh Keegan (fiddle), Siobhán Rafferty (piano accordion) and Áine Hogan (flute), the Scoil Éigse tutors Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh (concertina) and Danny O’Mahony (button accordion), duet champions Gearóid (concertina) and Seán Keane (fiddle), the playing of Fionnán Mac Gabhann (uilleann pipes) with Conor Hanrahan (guitar), the trio of Dylan Foley (fiddle), Blaithín Loughran (button accordion) and Céitlin Finlay (banjo), concluding with Sean Nós dancer Brian Cunningham at the Scoil Éigse 2008 tutors’ concert.
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- ComhaltasLive #282-4: Fionnán Mac Gabhann with Conor Hanrahan
- 25 December 2008
Uilleann piper Fionnán Mac Gabhann from Ballinteer, Dublin plays two jigs: “The Lark in the Morning” and “The Lark’s March”. He is joined on guitar by Conor Hanrahan.
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- ComhaltasLive #280 (Full Programme)
- 27 November 2008
This week we bring you more music from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008, held in Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August 2008. Performers include Darren McGee (fiddle), Rosie Ferguson (fiddle), Declan McGee (guitar), Louise Mulcahy (flute), Mairéad McManus (flute), Deirdre Granville (flute), Aoife Granville (harp), the Breffni Céilí Band, Ceoltóirí na Mainistreach, Eilís Nic Aogáin (fiddle), Johnny Canning (fiddle) and Ciara Brennan (fiddle).
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- ComhaltasLive #277 (Full Programme)
- 3 November 2008
This week brings more music from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, including impromptu sessions with the Maguire family, Mick O’Connor and Anton Mac Gabhann, along with Bronwyn De Paor, Dylan Foley, Aidan Connolly and Caoimhe Kearns playing in the under-18 fiddle competition.
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- ComhaltasLive #277-7: Maguire family session
- 2 November 2008
Another session by the Maguire family from Co. Fermanagh, with Christopher on accordion, Margaret on fiddle and Lorena on flute, with guitar accompaniment by Gerry McCaughey. They play a selection of jigs, ending with “The Wandering Minstrel.”
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- ComhaltasLive #277-6: Session with Mick O’Connor and Anton Mac Gabhann
- 1 November 2008
Next we present an informal session at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. The session was anchored by Mick O’Connor (banjo) from London, Anton Mac Gabhann (fiddle), originally from Co. Cavan and living in Co. Meath for many years, and Eddie Whelan (guitar) from Birr in Co. Offaly. They play two jigs composed by Vincent Broderick, who died a few weeks before the Fleadh. The jigs are: “The Whistler at the Wake” and “The Old Flail.”
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- ComhaltasLive #277-1: Fleadh session with the Maguire family
- 27 October 2008
Christopher Maguire from
IrvinstownIrvinestown Comhaltas in Co. Fermanagh took second place in the Senior button accordion competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2008. In this session, he is joined by his sisters Margaret on fiddle and Lorena on flute, with guitar accompaniment by GerryMcCaugheyMcMahon. They play a selection of reels, commencing with “The Limestone Rock.”The music was recorded at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, held in Tullamore, Co. Offaly in August 2008.
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- ComhaltasLive #268-1: Flute Player Michael King
- 20 August 2008
Winner of two successive All-Irelands, Under-18 in 2003 and Senior in 2004, concert flute player Michael King from Nonagea, Co. Limerick plays two reels: “The Humours of Scariff” and “The Road to Errogie”, composed by Adam Sutherland, which he learned from the playing of Brian Finnegan. He is joined on guitar by Seán Leahy from Dún Chadin, Co. Kerry.
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- ComhaltasLive #264 (Full Programme)
- 21 July 2008
This week we present traditional Irish music played by Breda Shannon, the Hurley family, Eddie Whelan, Aidan Shannon, Enda McGreevy and Keith Gildea, along with some regulars from the Wednesday night session at Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- ComhaltasLive #264-3: The Hurley family with some jigs
- 16 July 2008
From Ballymote, Co. Sligo, the Hurley family — Dermot on guitar, Deirdre on whistle and Eileen on banjo — play a set of jigs: “The Galway Miner’s Jig” (also called “Tommy Mulhaire’s”) and “Deirdre Hurley’s Jig”, which was composed by their father, Michael.