Traditional dance music, performed on various combinations of fiddles, flutes, piccolo, cornet, saxophone, button accordeon, piano accordion, piano, tambourine, banjo, harp-guitar, drums, and uilleann pipes. "Edited by Reg Hall"--Booklet cover. Various performers. Recorded 1922-1948, in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Hayes (Middlesex, England), London, and Dublin. "In 1973, Folkways Records ... issued Irish dance music, Reg Hall's pioneer anthology taken from 78 rpm records. Drawing on material and information not available to him then, this second edition contains a revised selection of recordings and new notes"--Container. Compact disc. Program notes by Reg Hall ([24] p. : port.) inserted in container.
Contents:
The Westport chorus (Frank Quinn) -- Jigs: Ginger's favourite/Bogs of Allen (Michael J. Cashin) -- Sweet flowers of Milltown/The boys from Knock : schottische (Tom Morrison & John Reynolds) -- O'Dowd's favourite reel medley (Michael Coleman) -- Ah! Surely the maid on the green : jigs (Bart Henry's Traditional Quartet Orchestra) -- Maids of Galway/Over the moor to Peggy : Irish reels (McKenna & Gaffney) -- Medley of old time fiddling reels: Bonnie Kate/Swallow's tail/Molly Brannigan (K. Scanlon) -- Off to California : hornpipe/Dunphy's hornpipe (Michael J. Grogan) -- Reels: Drunken tailor/Teetotaler (Michael J. Grogan & John Howard) -- The maid of Ballinatra : reel (George Halpin & M. Stanford) -- Frieze breetches/The cook in the kitchen/Lannigan's ball : medley of Irish jigs (Flanagan Brothers) -- Scotch Mary medley : Irish reels (J. Flanagan) -- Medley of polkas: Babes in the wood/Moore's favourite (McConnell's Four Leaf Shamrocks) -- The pride of Ulster : Maggie Pickens/Cameron's wife : folk dance (The. Four Provinces Orchestra) -- Boys of Blue Hill/Stack o' wheat : hornpipe medley (Pat Roche's Harp & Shamrock Orchestra) -- Stack of oats/Shannon waves : barn dances (Erin's Pride Orchestra) -- Irish jigs: Kitty's rambles/The merry old woman/The humours of Ballinafad (Frank Lee's Tara Ceilidh Band). Irish reel medley: The high road to Galway/The groves reel/The salamanca reel (Siamsa Gaedheal Ceilidhe Band) -- Carraroe and Lambert's jigs (Ballinakill (Co. Galway) Traditional Dance Players) -- The old bush reel (Jerry Moloney & Tommy Whyte) -- Reels: The first house in Connaught/The green gate (Moate Ceilidhe Band) -- Jigs: Mill Pond/Mist on the meadow (Lough Gill Quartet) -- Reels: Ash plant/The merry harriers/The hut in the bog (Belhavel Trio) -- Reels: Lasses of Carracastle/Maid of Mt. Kisko/St. Ruth's bush (Kincora Ceilidhe Band).
OCLC:
(OCoLC)34736973
Locations:
OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)
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