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Neansai Ni Choisdealbha – Draiocht na Feadoige
Press Reviews
The Living Tradition Jan/15
Well known in lreland and beyond as a broadcaster, Nancy Costello shows herself here to be an equally ?ne fluter. In a generous 21 tracks, she covers a wide range of lrish music from session tunes to slow airs, on flutes and whistles, joined by some excellent accompanists and other musicians.
The title of this CD might translate as ‘Woodwind Wizardry’ and that would be no great exaggeration, although Nancy has no pretentions to be a Finnegan or McGoldrick.
She breathes life into these tunes though and it’s the warmth and spirit which really comes across in her music, with enough technical skill to make her playing seem the most natural thing in the world. Most of these tunes are ones l often play myself, being a whistler, so l have to take a step back from the familiar and try to be objective.
The material here comes from the heart of the tradition, well loved but sometimes neglected melodies. John Brennan ‘s and George White’s Favourite are great old reels, not heard so much in sessions these days. Tommy Mulhaire’s Jig is another rarity, but Condon’s Frolics is currently in favour. A set of polkas rolls beautifully off the fingers – no slides though. There are some exemplary hornpipes here too: The Navigator is a politically correct title and The Swan is rather less well known. Oiche Nollaig is a tune which is usually only heard for about one week a year, which is a shame. Redican’s Mother; The Skylark, The Green Mountain and The Lark On The Strand are all welcome as old friends. Lorna Hunter’s Reel puts a name to a tune for me, and Nancy’s Reel is a composition of Michael Hynes who joins Nancy here to play it. Fiddles, button boxes, jaw harp and the pipes of Nancy’s mentor, the iconic Meaiti Jo Shéamuis, provide duets and an occasional kitchen session sound, but most tracks are flute or whistle solos with deft accompaniment.
Slow airs and waltzes are plentiful, some of them true solos. Taimse im Chodhladh, An Buachaillin Ban and Ballyvaughan Bay come from the lrish repertoire, while The Duchess Tree, Westering Home and Scottish Lament have crossed the North Channel at some stage.
Alter more than an hour of fine music, Nancy launches into the pair of challenging reels, Colonel Rogers and Happy Days Of Youth, before a final house céili on four reels from Patrick’s Night to Ormond Sound. Warm, spirited and inclusive: The Magic of the Flute is a charming album which will bring a smile to the face of any lrish music fan. Alex Monaghan
R2 Magazine Nov/Dec 14 * * * *
Nancy Costello is one of the foremost’ broadcasters on RTE Radio na Gaeltachta, where she was appointed Head of Music in 2010.
Originally from a Gaelic-speaking part of Galway, a small locality that has always been renowned for tradition, Nancy was first encouraged to play music by her parents.
Accompanied by some excellent musicians, including Michael Hynes, Johnny Connolly and Eoin O’Neill, The Magic of the Flute is a varied collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes and airs, led by Nancy on flute and whistle. The playing and arrangements are solidly traditional.
Nancy is a very capable flautist with a rock-steady rhythm. Her version of the C reel ‘Swinging On The Gate’ is beautifully played, with each rolling triplet adding to the flow of the tune. Likewise, Nancy is similarly adept on the whistle, as her excellent playing of ‘The Sweep’s Hornpipe’ demonstrates. The majestic slow air, ‘Taimse lm chodladh is na duistear Mé’ (I am Sleeping, do not awaken me) is, for me, a highlight of the CD. Here Nancy nicely decorates the melody and plays with true emotion.
Draiocht Na Feadoige translates as the ‘Magic Of The Flute’, which is a very fitting title for this lovely CD. Keith Whiddon
www.liveireland.com
One of my favorites is by a terrific flute player named Nancy Costello from the Connemara in Ireland. The title: The Enchantment of the Flute on Clo Iar-Chonnacht. There are 21 cuts of fab fluting. Good heavens, this girl can play. I’m going to suggest that you get to the Clo Iar-Chonnacht website or Alan O’Leary at Copperplate Distribution in London to get this. Why? For some reason, this cd has the title, ‘Draiocht Na Feadoige’ by Neansai Ni Choisdealbha. Good God. That translates to Enchantment of the Flute by Nancy Costello. The title cannot possibly help sales, and that is a shame. All 21 tunes here are played impeccably in a gorgeous style. Nancy is a master musician. We will be playing this a lot on our LiveIreland show to help introduce this wonderful talent. Part of the fun will be to try to pronounce it. We can hear the purists calling in now. This is a terrific album, and qualifies Nancy for serious consideration as Female Musician of the Year. Bill Margeson
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Oisin & Conol Hernon – Up and Coming
Up and Coming – O Ghluin go Gluin is a new album of traditional music from Oisin and Conal Hernon, released on the Clo lar-Chonnachta label.
Brothers Oisin and Conal Hernon are two young musicians from the Aran Islands who, although just sixteen and thirteen years of age respectively, display the musical ability and skills of musicians twice their age. They began playing music when they were very young, both starting out on tin whistle, with Oisin moving to button-accordion at the tender age of six and Conal taking up banjo at the age of nine. It wasn’t long before they began playing in competitions and they have amassed a long list of prizes over the years, including All-Ireland titles on button-accordion and banjo. They have performed music on many stages, with one of the highlights being a performance for visiting EU ministers and dignitaries during Ireland’s hosting of the EU Presidency in 2004. The brothers’ musical talents come as little surprise because their mother, Marion, is also an accomplished musician who has won the All-Ireland title for button-accordion, as well as prizes for singing in English and Irish. Her own parents are also musical – her mother is from Milltown Malbay in west Clare, a town renowned for traditional music, and her father is an accomplished box player who toured Ireland with his band, The Inky Craven Dance Band. This exceptional family can boast seventeen All-Ireland titles between them, spread over three generations, and all three generations can be heard playing on Up and Coming – O Ghluin go Gluin.
The tunes on the album include two of Conal’s own compositions – ‘The Renmore Jig’, named after the place where his grandparents live, and ‘Philomena’s Fancy’, named after his grandmother as well as a song by Marion, ‘Sean-Phadraic’. The brothers turn their music skills to a different genre of music for the final track, an instrumental version of ‘The Way I Are’ by Timbaland!
Oisin and Conal will be performing in Aistear Ceilteach – Celtic Passage, a traditional music and dance show on Inis Mor, throughout the summer.
Press Reviews
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Oisin and Conal are 16 and 13, respectively, as of the time of this recording. Oisin is on the button box, Conal on the banjo. Of course, it goes without saying they come from an incredibly talented musical family. The immediate family, including the brothers, has 17 All-Ireland titles to its credit. To hear two musicians this good, this mature and this young can get depressing. Stunning. Stunning. This much talent and their whole lives ahead of them. Who wins? All of us! Especially us. We get to hear them for years, God willing. Get up,’ya boyos! It is on Clo-iar-Chonnacta. Is this label capable of producing anything less than perfection from each of its artists? Rating: Four Harps Bill Margeson
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Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington – Fortune Favours the Merry
Press Reviews
#13 / Best Irish Traditional Albums of 2005
The Irish Echo / CEOL Column By Earle Hitchner
Irish Music Magazine 8.05
Fortune Favours the Merry, and if you buy nothing else this year you wont be disappointed, perhaps as they say in crossword clues you’ll be blessed and delighted by your windfall! Sean Laffey
The Irish Post
“This is an album of joyous, uncontrived music on flute, and fiddle from two musicians with both talent and experience”. Joe Mullarkey
The art of duet playing has long been an integral part of the traditional music ethos. One has only to look back to the recordings of the great masters of traditional music in the early years of the last century; along with their solo recordings, they also recorded duets with fellow musicians. This tradition is continued with this release.
Peter and Gerry create a tight blend of wind and string in which neither dominates. The music is played in a clean, spirited fashion without sacrificing any of their individual capacity to grace the music. You will enjoy listening to their music as much as they enjoy playing it. Paddy Ryan
Both are well-known musicians and being from different musical backgrounds, parts of Ireland and even generations, is not a problem as far as their blend of flute and fiddle music is concerned. There is freshness and life in the wide variety of tunes they have chosen – some are classics of our tradition – and while others are not so well-known, you’ll wonder why when you hear them played on this disc.
There are reels, jigs, hornpipes and other dance tunes, as well as a slow air. There are solos and duets, music with and without accompaniment and, where there is accompaniment, the piano of Ollie Ross (a very well-known name in traditional music through his father, the legendary accordion player, George Ross) does this most ably in a way which complements and adds to the overall pleasure of hearing this music. Peter Browne, RTE Producer and uilleann piper. February 2005
The Irish Echo / CEOL Column By Earle Hitchner
Best Irish Traditional Albums of 2005
Shortly after coming to the Irish Echo in 1991, I decided to compile an annual top 20 list of Irish traditional recordings that would stubbornly resist the trend to place albums in several, often arbitrary categories. I felt then, as I do now, that such category-crammed lists were thinly veiled attempts to pacify as many musicians, publicists, and record labels as possible by spreading acclaim like cheap margarine.
Critics, if they really are critics, should have the courage of their convictions and rank the recordings, no matter how difficult the process and unwieldy the challenge. To me, it’s a matter of put up or shut up, and each year I choose to put up for “Ceol” readers.
Every one of these standout albums from 2005, unflinchingly ranked 1 to 10, belongs in your listening library.
(13) “Fortune Favours the Merry,” by Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington (CICD 158):
Sliding into the fiddle chair beside Killavil, Sligo, flutist Peter Horan, whose nearly 30-year partnership with fellow Sligoman Fred Finn (1919-1986) on fiddle is the stuff of legend, could have unnerved another fiddler, but Kenmare, Kerry-born Gerry Harrington complemented Horan beautifully. The pace was exemplary, and the investment of feeling in every note conveyed a sincerity that was nearly palpable.
[Published on January 25, 2006, in the IRISH ECHO newspaper, New York City. Copyright (c) Earle Hitchner. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of author.]
The Irish Post 17th Dec.05
Traditionalists play a merry tune going back to their roots
FORTUNE Favours The Merry is the new album from Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington. Peter and Gerry create a tight blend of wind and string in which neither instrument dominates. The music is played in a clean, spirited fashion without sacrificing any of their individual capacity to grace the music.
This is an album of joyous, uncontrived music on flute, and fiddle from two musicians with both talent and experience.
Peter Horan is from Killavil in Co. Sligo and is a veteran of Irish traditional music. Growing up in fiddle country meant that his flute style was largely free of the influence of other players and he is now the last exponent of a unique style of playing which is not unlike the local fiddle style.
Gerry Harrington is from Kenmare in Co. Kerry and is now living in Lismore in Co. Waterford. His fiddle style is predominantly that of Sliabh Luchra. Gerry is a highly-respected musician who has made several other recordings.
Ollie Ross brings a lovely touch to the album with lively, intuitive accompaniment on piano.
Although Gerry and Peter are from different generations and from musical backgrounds they blend beautifully. Like many older musicians Peter values expression within music far more than technicality.
The music on this album is full of feeling and comes from the very roots of the tradition. Tunes on the album include Tell Her I Am, Lord Gordon, Lad O’Beirne’s Hornpipe, The Skylark and the slow air She Sailed From Dublin. Joe Mullarkey
East Bay Express Best of 2005
Though they represent not only very different regional styles but different generations, flutist Horan and fiddler Harrington combine beautifully on this beguiling record. Nobody is trying to prove anything here, but like all great traditionalists, these guys know how to let a tune tell its own magical tale. They also know how to select a fine program. It really doesn’t get much better than this. Duck Baker
The Irish Echo 27.7.05 CEOL Column.
Give Kenmare, Kerry-born fiddler Gerry Harrington credit. It is not easy sliding into the fiddle chair beside 79-year-old Killavil, Sligo, flutist Peter Horan, whose nearly 30-year partnership with fellow Sligoman Fred Finn (1919-1986) on fiddle is the stuff of legend. Horan and Finn were a hand-in-glove duo, beautifully in sync with each other, so comfortable and capable that the music they made seemed effortless and was seamless.
Two years after Finn’s death in Jan. 1986, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann released the “Music of Sligo” LP. It comprised five tracks from a Dec. 1985 recording session by Horan and Finn in Dublin, four tracks from their 1976 session in Dublin, two tracks from a 1959 Radio Éireann recording of them made by Ciarán Mac Mathúna, and five tracks selected from their playing during the 1970s in South Sligo. Albums cobbled together in this fashion are often uneven, and the sonic quality of the LP was that. But the playing was extraordinary and has stood the test of time.
Gerry Harrington is from a younger generation and different regional style, Sliabh Luachra, so the match between him and Horan in their “Fortune Favours the Merry” CD on Cló Iar-Chonnachta may appear strange and improbable. But this album of more than an hour of music recorded at Doddy’s Pub in Ballymote, Sligo, largely works because these two instrumentalists start from a bond of respect and care for the tradition they serve. If speed in Irish traditional music is about ego and effect, then the more fluid, unhurried tempo heard on this CD is about melody and how to deepen its appeal without artifice.
Is Peter Horan on “Fortune Favours the Merry” the Peter Horan of “Music of Sligo”? No. But that doesn’t mean he still can’t put across a tune with all the soul and spirit for which he’s known.
The grace and lift Horan brings to his flute playing in “The Pigeon on the Gate/Trim the Velvet” reels dovetail expertly with Harrington’s steady, dance-inspired fiddling, backed by Ollie Ross on keyboards. The pace is exemplary, and the investment of feeling in every note played conveys a sincerity that’s nearly palpable.
In one sense, it’s hard to make “The Skylark/Roaring Mary” reels, “Tell Her I Am/Brennan’s Favourite” jigs, “The Foxhunter/Captain Rock” reels, “Lord Gordon” reel, and “Dowd’s No. 9/The Hunter’s House” reels sound new, given the countless times they’ve been recorded over the decades.
Horan and Harrington reinvigorate them not with machine-gun velocity, exotic ornamentation, or winking novelty in arrangement, but with sheer, expressive joy in playing them. This isn’t old wine in old or new bottles, but old wine allowed to breathe and spread its bouquet naturally. Not to strain the metaphor, but this is a sipping rather than a guzzling contest overseen by two sommeliers of impeccable taste.
Hornpipes such as “John J. Kimmel’s/O’Callaghan’s” from Harrington and “McDermott’s/The Flowers of Antrim” from Horan and Harrington, backed by
Ross, luxuriate in melodic texture, while “The Corkin Cross/The Lakes of Sligo/Memories of Ballymote” show Horan’s ability to match his Sliabh
Luachra partner in some polkas.
My sole, small complaint about the album is in the relationship between melody and rhythm instruments on occasion. In “Lad O’Beirne’s/Sault’s
Hornpipe,” for example, fairly inflexible dynamics and almost paint-by-numbers vamping on keyboards by Ross, an otherwise able player, distract from Horan’s lovely flute solo.
Accompanists must adjust to melody players, not vice versa, especially when the melody player is a flutist of Horan’s reputation. This has nothing to do with that silly saw, “A good backer is the one you don’t notice.” Listeners should notice–and appreciate–rhythmic accompaniment that sets into relief or elicits standout melody playing.
If fast and flashy Irish traditional music is what you’re seeking, then skip this CD. But if you’re looking for unslick, turf-scented instrumental music rooted in and drawing on the longstanding strength of the Irish tradition, “Fortune Favours the Merry” is for you.
Kudos to Cló Iar-Chonnachta (CIC), an independent recording label in Inverin, Connemara, Galway, for its commitment over the past 20 years to
preserve and present Irish traditional music as well as Irish-language and Gaeltacht culture of quality. Earle Hitchner
The Irish Echo
For anyone who loves Irish traditional music in its pure drop state, unvarnished and unflashily virtuosic, there are two new, can’t-miss albums from Galway’s Cló Iar-Chonnachta label: “Fortune Favours the Merry” by Sligo flutist Peter Horan and Kerry fiddler Gerry Harrington, with piano accompaniment from Ollie Ross (his father was Wexford’s 1956 All-Ireland senior button accordion champion George Ross), and “Within a Mile of Kilty” by John Gordon, Brian Rooney, Séamus Quinn, and Ben, Charlie, and Maurice Lennon, with backing from Altan’s Ciarán Curran on cittern, Beginish’s Noel O’Grady on bouzouki, Frank Kilkelly on guitar, and Gabriel McArdle on concertina.
Harrington has absurdly large musical shoes to fill, as the flute-fiddle duo of Horan and fellow Sligoman Fred Finn (1919-1986) is the stuff of legend. But the Sliabh Luachra fiddler acquits himself well beside Horan, who will only increase his reputation as one of Ireland’s finest flutists ever with this new CD. If you enjoyed Mike Rafferty’s exceptional “Speed 78” solo debut last year, you will also revel in this Horan-Harrington collaboration, recorded in Doddy’s Pub, Ballymote, Sligo. Earle Hitchner
Irish Music Magazine 8.05
Gerry Harrington told me that there were only two days of rehearsals allotted for this exceptional album. “Peter Horan reckoned that if I was good enough then I’d be able to get it all down in those two days, if not then I’d never be good enough to play with him” he told me. Well the judgement is that there really was some thermal chemistry going on when these two met and the combination of flute and fiddle resulted in an alloy of truly astounding properties.
The album opens with The Gold Ring/The Rambling Pitchfork with Ollie Ross adding the undertow of piano accompaniment. The tracks just gets better as the musicians settle into their playing, giving the album a really live sound.
Recorded by Bruno Staehlin in his Open Ear Studios in Galway, he has a great set of lugs and has recorded this album so that you can hear every nuance from the fiddle and flute. And you really have to hear this album, it’s simply not enough to passively listen to it; Peter Horan’s flute playing is so full of variety, little yelps and barks, unexpected trills and flourishes, and yet all the time Harrington matches these pyrotechnics with tight ensemble playing never once thrown off by the vibrancy of Horan’s work.
There are chances for solo performances too, with Harrington first out to bat with John J. Kimmel’s Hornpipe/ O’Callaghan’s both from the Sliabh Luachra tradition (attributed on the album liner notes to Julia Clifford and Dennis Murphy). Horan’s masterpiece is the slow air She Sailed from Dublin, he has an original method of playing slow airs, about as far from Keltic Muzak and all those wispy low whistle albums as you can imagine, slow the air may be, but is full of music. And a word about those liner notes, short perhaps but full of information on where their source recordings can be found.
One remarkable feature of the album is how well Horan and Harrington have gelled together, as they come from truly distinct Irish music traditions, did they really get on musically I asked Gerry Harrington, well he told me Peter is already keen to make another album. And if you need proof of the potential inspect track fifteen, Dowd’s No. 9 and The Hunter’s House, the latter taken at a handy pace, it’s composer Ed Reavy would surely be delighted by it’s treatment here.
For the time being you’ll have to do with Fortune Favours the Merry, and if you buy nothing else this year you wont be disappointed, perhaps as they say in crossword clues you’ll be blessed and delighted by your windfall! Sean Laffey
The Irish World 15.07.05
Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington are two musicians from very different traditional Irish musical backgrounds. With a large generation gap between them and different styles of playing, hailing from almost opposite ends of Ireland, Peter from Sligo and Gerry from Kerry, maybe you’d dismiss the thought of these two men putting together fiddle and flute to bring us a collection of ‘oh-I-recognise-that-one’ Irish tunes.
Well you’d be mistaken. Peter grew up in Killavil Co. Sligo, known as ‘fiddle country’, and he developed a style of playing which was very much his own. He has carried with him this unique style and is a veteran of traditional Irish music today, earning much respect over the years.
Gerry Harrington, despite being of a younger age is also a respected musician whose fiddle style is that of Sliabh Luachra, an area spanning the Cork, Kerry and Limerick borders, famous for its contribution to Gaelic cultural heritage.
Gerry’s collaboration with Peter Horan in ‘Fortune Favours The Merry’ is the latest in a series of duets with other respected musicians, namely Charlie Piggott and Nancy Conescu.
For those of you who have remained in touch with the traditional Irish music scene I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear such tunes as ‘The Skylark’, ‘She Sailed from Dublin’ and ‘Lad O’Brien’s Hornpipe’. For those who have perhaps lost touch a little there are, and I’ll say it again, ‘oh-I-recognise-that-one’ tunes which ring a bell and bring back memories of times spent in Ireland or with the relatives.
The fruit of this collaboration, with the lively accompaniment of Ollie Ross on the piano, brings you back to your roots. The fiddle and flute skilfully compli-ment each other and in the words of Peter Horan in reference to their music “You have to feel it”. PATRICK COYLE
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Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington – The Merry Love to Play
Peter Horan is a legendary flute player from Killavil, Co. Sligo and this is the second album that he has recorded with Gerry Harrington, a talented fiddler from Kenmare, Co. Kerry.
Their first album, Fortune Favours the Merry, was released in 2005 to critical acclaim and The Merry Love to Play will do much to confirm their excellence as a duet. The new album is completely unaccompanied, a very rare occurrence in commercial music, allowing the listener to focus entirely on the two melody instruments and also maximizing the opportunity to hear Peter Horan’s unique flute playing. The musicians’ distinct styles complement each other superbly, with Gerry’s delicate and airy playing providing the perfect counterbalance to Peter’s rhythm-driven style. For Peter Horan to undertake an unaccompanied album at the age of 81 was no mean feat; however both musicians felt strongly that an unaccompanied recording was the best choice for the new album. They wanted to go back to the roots of the music, to a simpler sound that would showcase the instruments and best reflect the way that music has traditionally been played. The Merry Love to Play does just that, and provides listeners with a rare example of traditional Irish music in its purest state.
Gerry Harrington has provided meticulous notes in the booklet on the sources for the tunes. The Merry Love to Play will be launched on Monday 16 July in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo as part of a tribute concert to Peter Horan during the South Sligo Summer School.
Copperplate is very proud to have this title on our roster and to help it achieve its full potential will be supporting this release with a full-scale promotional mail out to media and retail.
Also available from Copperplate Distribution
CICD158: Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington: Fortune Favours The Merry
CICD142: Gerry Harrington & Charlie Piggott: The New Road
Press Reviews
Irish Music Magazine
One of the great things about our music is that it’s meant for sharing among friends. No finer example could be found than this collection. It’s a follow-up to the first CD, Fortune favours the merry. It is also a powerful argument for having at least some tunes played unaccompanied, especially when the players have such good rhythm and understanding. And the solos are very fine. Listen to Peter Horan at the age of 81, giving a masterly account of the “High Level” hornpipe, not an easy tune at any age. And he also has a lovely waltz, the “Killavil Waltz”, that came from his own mother.
There’s sometimes a complaint that traditional players don’t achieve great tone. Gerry’s playing on the slow air “Her Mantle So Green” will easily give the lie to that. Full praise to CIC for the detailed bi-lingual notes, including background on each tune. Listen to the instinctively good playing on an old war-horse like “The old grey goose”. Gerry shows his Kerry roots with a couple of fine polkas, including the showpiece “Primrose”, once made famous by Jimmy Shand.
Above all, this is happy and contented music, no shapes to throw, nothing to prove, except that when you love the music as much as this, the sharing is wonderful. John Brophy
www.liveireland.com
For the pure trad lover comes a “must have”. “The Merry Love To Play”. Out of the West comes 81 year old Peter Horan on wooden flute (of course!) and Gerry Harrington on fiddle. This is a follow up to their highly regarded and loved, “Fortune Favours The Merry” of a few years ago. This is unaccompanied. A daunting challenge today, both in artistic and commercial areas. This takes musicians of quality and real substance. This is not easy to pull off. These two do it gloriously. Again, this is for the real, true, down to the bone trad fanatic. Others of a more commercial bent may want to stay away. But, if the real deal is your deal, this is for you. This is brilliant. Horan’s solo version of “The Coolin” is worth the price of admission, alone! Rating: Highly Recommended For The True Trad Purist! Bill Margeson
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Seamus Quinn & Gary Hastings – Slan le Lough Eirne
- The Kiss Behind the Door / Bonnie Ann / The Granny in the Wood.
- The Humours of Ballyconnell / Swinging on the Gate.
- The Mayo Snaps / The Boys of the Town.
- Paddy Kiloran’s Highland / Hannah Mhici Mhicheail’s.
- Farewell Dear Erne, I Now Must Leave You.
- The New Copperplate / Patsy Hanley’s.
- The Bugle Hornpipe / Number 5.
- Edward the Seventh / The Lark on the Strand.
- The Shaskeen.
- The Banks of the Clyde.
- Na Ceannabhain Bhana / Dever the Dancer.
- P. Flanagan’s / The Gossoon That Beat His Father.
- The Maids of Castlebar / The Morning Star.
- Last Nights Fun / The Sligo Maid.
- The Heel & Toe / Devlin’s.
The three first met in Coleraine University. Gary is now Church of Ireland rector in Westport, Seamus is a Catholic priest in Monaghan, and Ciaran is from the parish of Altan. Seamus plays fiddle, Gary plays flute and Ciaran plays bouzouki. This is superb music, much of it based on the tradition of County Fermanagh where Seamus grew up. These men had the same mentors as Cathal McConnell, the musicians of South Fermanagh and North Leitrim. Seamus also has a special allegiance to the music of Coleman, and the couple of slow airs included are based on the songs and style of Fermanagh. It’s as good as you are going to hear. Claddagh Records
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