Name: Colm Gannon, Jesse Smith and John Blake, The Kesh,(The Ewe with the Crooked Horn) 2010, by Colm Gannon
Duration: 3 min 12 s
Description: Colm Gannon, Jesse Smith and John Blake. The Kesh jig and Ritchie Dwyers. Off my album "The Ewe with the Crooked Horn", released in 2010

I love the way you bring live and excitement in this old tune. Great stuff! Is it your own version or did you get it from somewhere else?

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)

Colm Gannon, Jesse Smith and John Blake. The Kesh jig and Ritchie Dwyers. Off my album "The Ewe with the Crooked Horn", released in 2010

Colm Gannon, Jesse Smith and John Blake, The Kesh,(The Ewe with the Crooked Horn) 2010,

Colm Gannon

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