Name: Lilting Banshee by Mostly Mandolin in Irish
Duration: 1 min 20 s
Description: Marvelously creepy jig made more creepy on a Bacon and Day tenor banjo.

Irish

At a post-concert session, I had the enormous pleasure of playing with the great piper Paddy Keenan.  When it was my turn to kick off a tune, I launched into "The Yellow Wattle" in dead man's tuning playing it pretty much as I do here (actually did it a bit better that night).  I started out on just 2 strings, then added the high D the second time through, then finished by hitting the low D a good bit.  Each time I added a string, he glanced my way with a raised eyebrow.  At the end of the tune he turned to me and said, "How many strings you got on that thing, anyway?!"  I was later told that was a high compliment among old school Irish Trad players, and I got it from one of the greats.  It is a treasured memory.

The Yellow Wattle (DDAD)

Rose In The Heather Jig

The Last Pint (Lunasa cover)- Ticy Poppins

Track 2 from the CD "La flûte traversière en bois" - Bemol Prod, 2016 -  Avec Julien Biget (guitare) & Pierre Stéphan (violon), prise de son Aurélien Tanghe - bemolvpc.com

Lille Klara (comp. Anne Girard Esposito) / Sweet Rain (comp. Soïg Sibéril)

Marvelously creepy jig made more creepy on a Bacon and Day tenor banjo.

Lilting Banshee

Reprise de la magnifique chanson de Cat Stevens

Sad Lisa

I've been doing short, instrumental, acoustic albums as holiday gifts for a while. This one is mine for 2017 -- enjoy!

Just After Winter (Mandola)

The Blackest Crow (My Dearest Sweetheart)

This is the first track off my new album, Enjoy!

The Orphan

I have been playing a lot of Dowland these last months.
Rennaissance lute music is just so beautiful.

This piece is a Duet, I play the upper part here.

Played on Alhambra Steelstring A-4 in Lute Tuning (g>f#), Capo on 3rd fret

My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home - John Dowland

Anne : flûte 
Guillaume Vargoz : bodhran

Learned from a recording of Paddy Glackin (1st one) and from the playing of Barry Kerr (2d one). Played on Eb flute made by Chris Wilkes.

John Stewart's / The 8th of october

The Emigrant's Farewell

From Rasplyn's debut release, 'Scenes Through the Magic Eye', out on Mythical Records Nov 30th, 2014.

Priestess of the Goddess

I am an amateur multi-instrumentalist with a passion for playing Irish Traditional Music on anything with strings (mandolin, guitar, banjo, fiddle, octave mandolin, mandola).  I also enjoy performing folk and old time music.  I created this page mainly as a way of sharing tunes with people interested in learning to play Irish Trad.  I play all tracks here in a way that I hope makes them accessible.  I play them musically, but simply, avoiding a lot of the repetition, ornamentation, or variation I might use if performing them publicly.  
I include here 50 common session tunes played on mando.  These tracks, broken down into three playlists, are intended to help anyone new to Irish Trad to pick up some popular tunes to enjoy playing at home, or better yet, at a session.  I also have lists for Irish banjo, Celtic guitar, O'Carolan tunes, and selected mando tracks of tunes people have especially liked.
 
For those interested in knowing what instruments I use:  
Guitar tracks are recorded with a Martin D-28 Custom (1984),  a Larrivee OM-02 (2019), a Larrivee D-50 (2003), a Kalamazoo (Gibson) tenor (1936), or an Eastman AC 320 B (2007).
Banjo tracks are recorded with an Epiphone Recording A (1928) or a Bacon and Day Silver Bell No. 1 (1927).
Mando tracks are recorded with a Gibson A-1 (1916), a Collings MT (2011), a Collings MT2 (2019), or an Eastman 605 (2009). 
Octave mandolin tunes are recorded with a Petersen Level 1 (2012).
Mandola tunes are recorded with a Eugene Howard mandola (1890s).
I use a Zoom H2n, and edit tracks using Audacity (cuts, fade outs, noise removal, amplification, compression, equalization).

Lilting Banshee

Mostly Mandolin

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