Mystery Tune from Lisheen (Denis Murphy's slide played as a polka/march)

FAST Tom Billy's Waltz

leading the World Fiddle Day Scartaglin busload of fiddle players at Tom Billy Murphys Grave in Ballydesmond Graveyard

Timmy O Connor And Raymond O Sullivan

The first installment of a brand new series titled the 'Sliabh Luachra Music Trail Podcast', by Aidan Connolly. Episode 1 features live music from a great concert in the Ivy Leaf Arts Centre, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, which took place on December 14th 2024. 

SLMT Podcast 1, 5 Jan 2025

SLMT Podcast 2, 17 January 2025

Notes from Paul De Grae
 5. Reels: Paddy Cronin's 
This is a real treat: two reels that John Carty learned from the playing of Paddy Cronin, quite possibly composed by Paddy. They don't appear on any of Paddy's commercial recordings, and I can't find them in print in any of the O'Neill or Breathnach collections, nor in any of a dozen or so other books (the opening phrase of No. 2 has a slight resemblance to "Mullingar Races", but that's all). We hope to have more information before World Fiddle Day.

 

No. 1

F- EF D- DE | FED EF DB, B,- | A,B,DE F- BC | D'E'CD' B- AG |

F- EF D- DE | FED EF DB, B,- | A,B,DE FABA | F- EG FDDE ||  (1st time)

                                                                    | F- EG FDDC || (2nd time)

D'- E'C D'B B- | FBD'B FABC | D'- E'C D'BBA | FACE' D'BBC |

D'E'F'D' CD'E'C | D'CBA FB, B,- | A,B,DE FABA | F- EG FDDC || (1st)

                                                                        | F- EG FD D- ||  (2nd)

 

No. 2

DEFD EB, B,- | DEFA BCD'E' | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE DB, B,- |

D- FD EB, B,- | DEFA BCD'E' | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE D--- ||  (1st time)

                                                                   | EDFE D- AC ||  (2nd time)

D'CD'E' F'- D'F' | E'D'F'D' E'B B- | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE DB,B,A |

D'CD'E' F'- D'F' | E'D'F'D' E'B B- | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE D- AC ||

D'CD'E' F'- D'F' | E'D'F'D' E'B B- | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE DB, B,- |

DEFD EB, B,- | DEFA BCD'E' | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE D--- ||

Set 5 - Reels

Part of a great session found on a Maurice O Keeffe Cassette that he sent to Mary Brosnan Borgeat in Scartaglin.
Some of this session was possibly recorded in Dan O Connell's pub Knocknagree and more in Maurice O Keeffe's home in Kiskeam ( not sure )
Great playing from John Coakley, Richard Tisdall both living in Bantry and Maurice O Keeffe Kiskeam

John Coakley, Richard Tisdall, Maurice O Keeffe    -  Home Recording

Johnny Dennehy from Currow was a well respected fiddle player who was a pupil of the Blind Fiddler Tom Billy Murphy
We are very lucky to have two new recordings from him and thanks to Mary Brosnan Borgeat of Scartaglin for donating them to the Archives . This is Tape 1

Johnny Dennehy Pupil of Tom Billy Tape 1- Corney Drews and more

Johnny Dennehy Fiddle Tape 2

Denise's Waltz was composed by Timmy O'Connor of Toureendarby, Co. Cork (1935–2024). 

Anton Zille – C#/D accordion
Tatyana Vasilyeva – flute
Evgeny Kazenkov – bouzouki
Katerina Moskovskova – harp
Sophie Petkevich – keyboards

Recorded at the Big Samhain Festival in Saint Petersburg, October 2016.

Mystery Tune from Lisheen (Denis Murphy's slide played as a polka/march)

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