78rpm Disc 223: Mattie Toohy's Irish Minstrels: Ben Lourie/The Kenmare Fancy (flings)

This week's disc features a set of flings from Boston-based accordion player Mattie Toohy's band. If we have the correct Matthew Toohy, he arrived in Boston in the early 1920s and features in a couple of images captured in a family history blog about a Keohane family living in Belmont, MA in the 20s (https://familyhistorybymaryellen.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-keohanes-move-to-belmont.html).

There was a band playing for Irish dances called Toohy's Irish Rangers by the early 1930s, and by 1939 Matty Toohy's Irish Minstrels were playing for the Big Irish Dance on St. Patrick's Night at Deacon Hall.

Recorded on the Copley label (9-208). From the Ted McGraw Collection, McGraw 78 00-796.

McGraw 78 00-796

Mattie Toohy's Irish Minstrels: Ben Lourie/The Kenmare Fancy (flings)

NEW CD COMING SOON!!! Titled: The Rights of Man
Colm Gannon: Accordion
Alec Finn: Bouzouki
Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh: Bodhran
John Blake: Piano/Guitar
Kelly Gannon: Concertina
Here is the opening track as a sampler, hope you enjoy! 

The Green Groves of Erin/The Jolly Tinker (Reels) 3:20 (The Rights of Man)

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