Beautifully played . I like the "dotted" version of the Harp..

The Harp and Shamrock, Coalminer's

Accompanied on guitar and informally recorded by Mr. Hajime Takahashi.

The Mist on the Mountain was a tune I heard in sessions over the years but the first time I sat down to learn it was when listening to a selection of Junior Crehan recordings. I was excited by his fiddle playing and more excited still to hear that it was his own composition.

The second tune is a version of The Blooming Meadows which I got from a recording of Séamus Ennis. Séamus has a fantastic ability for regwork, often holding back but sometimes lashing into it. In this recording he would play a G on the regulators with the B note in the third part running into an F# on the regs when playing the C natural. For me, this added a wildness to the sound whilst also playing up the hoppy rhythm of the third part. I ran away with the idea in this tune.

The Harp and Shamrock, Coalminer's

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