Fantastic.  Thanks so much for sharing!  I was but a few weeks old when this was recorded :)

Beautiful playing - and so clear! It doesn't sound 48 years old at all!

Lovely recording, thanks. Less than a year before Willie died. His wife Doreen is chatting in the conversation. Was Tommy the local taxi driver?

Star Formation  - Paul Saunderson

Like iridescent clouds connecting the sides of a deep valley in the mountains, musical notes and phrases that Resonate like thoughts and feelings can bridge the Unfathomable Dimensions of this Wondrous Universe. 
We just need to Slow Down... and take the first step.


Improvised, Arranged and Mixed by Anomon

℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Inter-Dimensional Flow

Check out this sample track from our new album! 

Johnny's so Long at the Fair / Sweet Marie / Coen's Memories / My Maryann

BEO (Wooden flute, Uilleann-Pipes, Bouzouki )

BEO: Jigs (Mad Practicing, trad)

In the epic cattle raid of Cooley, An Táin, Queen Medb marched her army of Connaught men across Dundalk Bay at Áth Lethan in pursuit of Donn Cuailgne, the Brown Bull of Cooley. This march was composed as part of a commission by Create Louth.

The reel was composed as part of a suite of music that was commissioned by Na Magha CLG and performed in the Guildhall in Derry in May 2015. We dedicate this tune to Feargal McNicholl and Dave Duggan, both great hurling men and visionaries.

We were initially stuck for a name for this set, however whilst recording it for Fleadh TV, Dónal was reminded of a favourite old catchphrase of the Irish TV host Gay Byrne. So Roisín rolled it! 

Ulaid - Roll It There Roisin

Paddy Ryan’s Dream - The Dunmore Lasses - The Maple Leaf

This set begins with an atmospheric take on 'Paddy Ryan's Dream' which we learned from Co. Antrim flautist Brendan Mulholland. It continues with a classic session reel and is completed by 'The Maple Leaf' a Darach de Brún composition  
which we learned from Breton banjoist Bertrand Luçon.

Paddy Ryan's Dream

Track 5 from "The Bank of Turf" album by Dónal McCague & Tommy Fitzharris. Pre-order by emailing bitsnpieces2011@hotmail.com or tomfitzflute@gmail.com. To hear more samples go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYMAEUuV0w

Digital Downloads available at https://donalandtommy.bandcamp.com/
“One of my all-time favourites; one I can happily leave on repeat for hours!” - Frankie Gavin, 2018

Paddy in London / Jackie Small's / The Reaper

Willie Clancy at Friel's bar, Miltown Malbay, February 1972.
From John Knight's Collection, Tape_063

...

I've been working today to restore this old cassette tape recording of Willie Clancy made at Friel's Bar (now Lynch's) in Miltown Malbay back in the 70's. I'm really pleased with the way it's sounding now!

I inherited John's entire collection of tapes, which he made in folk clubs, singarounds and sessions throughout the British Isles back in the day. He left us about 400 of them! They've been sat in a box untouched since he died in the early 80's, but as of about November last year it has become our project to recover his life's work and make it freely available to those of whom it might be of interest.

There is what seems to be an endless stream of gems amongst this collection and the quality is usually quite incredible given the age of the tapes. The cassettes are often degraded to the point they won't play properly, but the tapes themselves are sound so I've been transferring them into new cassette bodies to get the best out the recordings. Most of the recordings are seriously flat and contain a lot of background noise. If someone planted a pint glass on the table next to the recorder the volume spike is several times louder than the music itself! Clapping is always very raucus, etc. So, as part of the recovery process I perform some basic mastering to tidy things up and I re-tune if needed. This recording was out by a whole key!

It's lovely to now hear this set the way it sounded and to be a fly on the wall in that pub. Enjoy!

John Knight's Tapes, Tape_063

Willie Clancy - Recorded by John Knight at Friel's, Miltown Malbay (February 1972)

Emmanuelle Bouthillier - chant, violon, pieds
Invitée: Marthe Tourret - chant, violon
Yannick Laridon - accordéon
Dylan James - chant, contrebasse

Les Petits Oignons (avant-deux de long)

Three reels of Liz's composition, from "Double Play," the Grammy nominated album with John Doyle.

Rushin' Dressing / The Quitter / Remove the Rug

Composed by Alexandra du Bois
© 2019 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2020 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded October 2019 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington, June 2020

Alexandra du Bois - Behind Rainbows

‘Knight, Briggs et al’ has been set up to house archival recordings of the folk and traditional music associated with the Knight family of Surrey and the Briggs family of Newcastle upon Tyne.

The collection includes music from the Knight Brothers (Simon, Chris, Andrew & Patrick) and the Briggs Sisters (Anna, Lesley, Astrid, Gael, Stephanie & Claire), amongst others.

Furthermore, the archive serves as a platform for John Knight's culturally priceless 1970's and 80's folk club, tune session and kitchen table recordings, which are slowly but surely being digitised by his descendants. More info here - https://soundcloud.com/knight-briggs-et-al/sets/john-knights-tapes

Willie Clancy - Recorded by John Knight at Friel's, Miltown Malbay (February 1972)

Knight, Briggs et al.

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