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"I decided to use my professional expertise to promote good Irish
traditional musicians and their music."
"But Al, you have always done that".

Christy Moore 2002



"Copperplate is the gold standard for the type of company that cares about the music, and getting it into your hands. A terrific and reliable distributor".
Bill Margeson
www.liveireland.com
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The Chicago Irish American News Columnist



Welcome to the home page of Copperplate Mail Order, a retail arm of Copperplate Distribution, a company specialising in the best of Irish Traditional Music. Championing Irish musicians who produce their own CDs but who do not have the clout of a record company behind them.

Copperplate Consultants will use its expertise to promote and publicise these titles to the media.


We also focus on the retail side of the business, working hard to ensure titles are in the shops and available to the public.
New York Productions - North East based PA sound, lighting and back
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Great internet site for hearing Irish traditional music at www.folkradio.co.uk



Hello Friends,
We have given our web site a spring clean and updated all sound samples to MP3 quality also several new samples and generally tidied up the web pages. We hope this will encourage you to visit earlier releases and listen again to some wonderful music.
We also have our 2010 catalogue available which we will be delighted to mail to you on request.
Many thanks for your continued support and don't forget to spread the word about Copperplate.
With thanks,
Copperplate







Our latest promotional innovation is to present an 80 minute podcast on music by Copperplate artists, which you can hear and download full tracks from several of our albums.

You don't need an ipod, this is just a show which you can have on your computer and listen to whenever you desire.
The address is http://alanoleary.libsyn.com

If you want to subscribe to further editions, go to Itunes 6 and under advanced tab, click subscribe to podcast and enter this address and all future shows will appear on your computer. Like magic!
Hope you enjoy the music.


Full catalogue at foot of this page.

New Releases:
Irish Peat Turf Fire DVD
Paddy Glackin: Music on the Fiddle
Willie Clancy
: The Gold Ring
Le Chéile: Out of the West

2 DVD SET: Old Ireland
Niall & Cillian Vallely
: Callan Bridge
Cillian Vallely & Kevin Crawford: On Common Ground
Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon: Knock na Gree
Colum Sands: Look Where I've Ended Up Now

Kev Boyle: Palestine Grove
Mulcahy Family: Reelin' in Tradition
The Baileys: A Song for Ireland
Liam Kelly (Dervish): Sweetwood

John Wynne:
Like The Wind
Larry Gavin & Michaél O'Rourke:
Two Miles to Tulla
Tommy Peoples
Various Artists: Irish Whistles

Kilfenora Ceili Band




Irish Peat Turf Fire DVD


a brilliant family experience


Paddy Glackin


Music on the Fiddle
Paddy's dazzling debut album from 1977

Willie Clancy

The Gold Ring 2CD set from RTE
This release will be regarded as one of the most important of recent times in the world of traditional music.


Le Chéile: Out of the West


Return after 34 years of legendary London band.

Old Ireland 2 DVD set


As seen on R.T.E. Nationwide.

Script & narration by writer & broadcaster
Liam Mac Con Iomaire


Produced by Michael Lyons.


featuring soundtrack music by
Irelands greatest accordian player,
Joe Burke of east Galway

The Irish Post:
"I have just been viewing a double DVD set entitled Old Ireland and it is simply wonderful".


The Irish World
" Much like the fire they gather round, 'Old Ireland' will delight you and warm you right through. The perfect Xmas present."


Niall & Cillian Vallely
Callan Bridge


Cillian Vallely & Kevin Crawford
On Common Ground




‘Tasty tunes and terrific playing make "On Common Ground" one of the recording triumphs of this still young year. It is a pinnacle performance from Cillian Vallely and Kevin Crawford, two uncommonly gifted Irish traditional musicians.’
Earle Hitchner, The Wall Street Journal and Irish Echo, NY.

NOEL HILL & TONY MacMAHON


Knock na Gree

"This is the closest any recording has ever come to capturing the life and spirit of an Irish ceili/session".

Colum Sands
Look Where I've Ended Up Now



This lovingly packaged, expertly produced and engineered disc is truly irresistible, and will (I guarantee) give any listener an enormous amount of pleasure.
David Kidman


"they are songs with depth, longing, understanding beyond the superficial, and those with downright powerful emotion". Folkwords.com



Music & Light
a book of photography by Tony Kearns
documenting 25 years of The Willie Clancy Summer School



Kev Boyle

Palestine Grove
www.netrhythms.com "this consistently intriguing album". David Kidman
"an album brimming with character" Colin Irwin


Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy:


Reelin' in Tradition

www.liveIreland.com

instrumental album of the year


The Baileys

A Song for Ireland

"Listening to this CD brought back memories, lovely old songs well sung with a very musical voice" Joe Burke, accordionist

The Irish World
This debut release of twenty traditional favourites
is a delightful revisit of some classic Irish tracks..


PADDY CARTY& CONOR TULLY


Traditional Music of Ireland
Legendary recording released for the first time of CD


Bobby Casey


The Spirit of West Clare

The Irish Democrat
This is a wonderful recording and I'm delighted that this great exponent of the old West Clare style has been captured for all time on CD. Ken Keable

The Folk Diary
This album is surely destined to become one of the all-time classics of Irish traditional music. Vic Smith

 
     
     
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Irish Peat Turf Fire DVD
Willie Clancy / The Gold Ring
Le Chéile / Out of the West
Cillian & Niall Vallely / Callan Bridge
Cillian Vallely & Kevin Crawford / On Common Ground
Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon / Knock Na Gree
Colum Sands / Look Where I've Ended Up
2 DVD Set / Old Ireland
Tony Kearns / Music & Light
Kev Boyle / Palestine Grove
Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy / Reelin' in Tradition
The Baileys / A Song for Ireland
Liam Kelly / Sweetwood
John Wynne / Like The Wind
Tommy Peoples / Traditional Irish Music played on the Fiddle
Kate Purcell / Independent Soul
Paddy Carty & Conor Tully / Traditional Music of Ireland
Various Artists / Irish Whistles
Kilfenora Ceili Band / 95
The Tulla Ceili Band / 40th Anniversary 1948 - 86
Maranna McCloskey / At Last
Tony MacMahon / MacMahon from Clare
Various Artists / The Flute Players of Roscommon Volume 2
Various Artists / Music & Song from Willie Clancy Summer School
Various Artists / Kieran Hanrahan's 10 Years of Ceili House
Various Artists / Ceili House on the Road 93
Seamus Ennis / The Return from Fingal
Elizabeth Crotty / Concertina Music from West Clare
The Story of Easter Week 1916
Various Artists / Masters of Tradition
Hendry / Mulholland / McSherry / Tuned Up
Ailie Robertson / First Things First
Oisin & Conal Hernon / Up & Coming
Frank Cassidy / Níl gar ann!
Brian Conway / Consider The Source
Ben Lennon & Tony O'Connell / Rossinver Braes
Dave Sheridan & co / Sheridan's Guest House
Catherine McEvoy / The Home Ruler
Rattle The Boards / Rattle The Boards
Lorcán MacMathúna / Rógaire Dubh
Oliver Loughlin & Damian O'Brien / The Factory Turn
Mary McPartlan / Petticoat Loose
Bobby Casey / The Spirit of West Clare
Island Eddy
James Carty / Upon My Soul
Brian Conway / First Through The Gate
Padraig Rynne / Bye A While
Con Cassidy / Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal
The London Lasses & Pete Quinn / Enchanted Lady
Joe Burke, Brian Conway & Felix Dolan / A Tribute to Andy McGann
Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington / The Merry Love to Play
Charlie Lennon / Turning The Tune
Tim Dennehy / Old Boots & Flying Sandals
John Wynne & John McEvoy / Pride of the West
Padraic O'Reilly / Highly Strung
Niamh Ní Charra / From Both Sides
Tommy Keane&Jacqueline McCarthy/The Wind Among the Reeds
Brian Hughes / Whirlwind
Mick Sands with Clive Carroll / The Ominous & The Luminous
Tony Reidy / A Rough Shot of Lipstick
Marcas Ó Murchú / Turas Ceoil
Eileen O'Brien & Friends / The Fiddler's Choice
Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh / Inside Out
Gerry O'Connor & Giles le Bigot / In Concert
Céide / Out of their Shell
Eilis Kennedy / One Sweet Kiss
Angelina & Peter Carberry / Memories from the Holla
Angelina Carberry / An Traidisiùn Beo
Jake Walton / Emain, The Unknown Land
Kathleen Loughnane / Harp to Heart
Kathleen Loughnane / Harping On
Kathleen Loughnane / Affairs of the Harp
Chris Droney / Down from Bell Harbour
Noel Hill / The Irish Concertina 2
DANÚ / One Night Stand DVD
Mick, Michelle & Louise Mulcahy / Notes from the Heart
Andrew Murray / Hell or High Water
Brid O'Donohue / Tobar an Dúchais
Various Artists / Within A Mile of Kilty
Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington / Fortune Favours the Merry
Gerry Banjo O'Connor / No Place Like Home
Johnny Connolly / An Mileoidean Scaoilte
Tim O'Shea & Friends / Lake of Learning
Gerry O'Connor / Journeyman
Jerry Lynch / The Dimming of the Day
Garry Walsh / Uncovered
Helen Roche / Shake the Blossom Early
Joe Derrane & Seamus Connolly & John McGann / The Boston Edge
Joe Derrane & Frankie Gavin with Brian McGrath / Ireland's Harvest
Catherine & John McEvoy / The Kilmore Fancy
Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn
Sean O'Driscoll & Larry Egan / The Kitchen Recordings
Mary McPartlanl/ The Holland Handkerchief
Barefield Ceili Band / Between The Sets LKFNA;DLFN
Mick O'Brien & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh/ Kitty Lie Over
Michael Hynes & Denis Liddy/ Waifs & Strays
Christy O'Leary & Bert Deivert/ Songs Sweet Caress
Gerry Diver / Diversions
Neil Mulligan / An Tobar Gle
The Ennis Ceili Band/ Trad Dance Music from Clare
Padraic O'Reilly/ Down the Ivory Stairs
The London Lasses & Pete Quinn/ Track Across the Deep
The London Lasses & Pete Quinn
Seamus Creagh & Aidan Coffey/ Island to Island
Mick Mulvey / Within A Mile O'Jamestown
Tim Dennehy / Between the Mountain and the Sea
Tim Dennehy / The Blue Green Door
Kate Purcell/ Shadows of You
Kate Purcell / A Dream Unfolds
Éilís Kennedy/ Time to Sail
Oisín MacDiarmada/ On The Fiddle
Oisin Mac Diarmada, Briain Fitzgerald, Michael Rooney.
Traditional Music on Harp, Banjo and Fiddle
Téada
Johnny O'Leary / Music For The Set
Sliabh Notes / Along Blackwater's Banks
Hammy Hamilton, Seamus Creagh & Con O'Driscoll / It's No Secret
Charlie Piggott & Gerry Harrington/ The New Road
Liam Farrell & Joe Whelan / They Sailed Away From Dublin Bay
John Regan & Paddy Glackin/ Let Down the Blade
Johnny Og Connolly & Brian McGrath/ Dreaming Up The Tunes
Johnny Connolly/ An tOilean Aerach
Johnny Connolly/ The Swallows Tail
Sean Casey/ The Porthole of the Kelp
Mick Conneely / Selkie
Paddy Canny/ Legendary East Clare Fiddler
John Vesey/ Sligo Fiddler 2 CD set

Michael O'Reilly/ The Nervous Man

Jacqueline McCarthy / The Hidden Note
The McCarthys / Family Album
Tommy McCarthy / Sporting Nell
Paddy Keenan / 1975 Debut Album
Paddy Keenan / Na Keen Affair
Kevin Rowsome / The Rowsome Tradition
Mick O'Brien / May Morning Dew
Danny Meehan/ The Navvy on the Shore
Neilidh Mulligan / The Leitrim Thrush
Neilidh Mulligan / Barr na Cuille
Tony Reidy / The Coldest Day in Winter
Céide / Like A Wild Thing
Providence / A Fig For A Kiss
Providence
John Wynne / With Every Breath
Eamonn Cotter / Trad Flute Music from County Clare
Catherine McEvoy & Felix Dolan/ Flute Music in Sligo Roscommon Style
Seamus Quinn & Gary Hastings / Slan le Lough Eirne
Ben Lennon & Friends / The Natural Bridge
The Bridge Ceili Band / Sparks on Flags
Jackie Daly / Traditional Irish Music on Accordion & Concertina
Padraig O'Keeffe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford/ Kerry Fiddles
Fraser Fifield / Honest Water
Various Artists / 2nd Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert
Various Artists/ Caise Ceoil
Various Artists / CUMAR
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