March 2006

Monthly Archive

28 Mar 2006

The Ash Plant

A Reel for Week 57. Alan Ng lists sources.

A good one for a bellows-driven instrument, I daresay: I’ve heard it from Dermot Byrne on button accordion, and the Noel Hill/Tony MacMahon duo as well, and both recordings sound great.

 

17 Mar 2006

Cooley’s

A Reel for Week 56. Alan Ng lists sources. The Session has info too.

The reel. I’ve been promising myself I’d learn this one for at least a year now. My stubborn insistence on sticking to one scale means the A part has 11 bellows changes in two measures the way I’m playing it. In a reel. I’m sure it’s good practice.

 

2 Mar 2006

Maids of Ardagh

A Polka for Week 55. Alan Ng lists sources. The Session has info too.

A nice fellow for the Tournmore, with some equally odd key changes in it. Tune two of a Johnny O’Leary track.

 

1 Mar 2006

The Tournmore

A Polka for Week 54. Alan Ng lists sources. The Session has info too.

Not the same as my very first post, but strangely similar in parts, considering it’s a completely different tune. Despite what is claimed at The Session, this tune is not on my Jackie Daly CD - that’s the other one. The very best record-keeping is always to be found at Alan Ng’s.