Description
Various Artists – The Coleman Archive Vol.1 – The Living Tradition
Tracks:
- Clogs Gallagher (fiddle) – Martin Wynne’s No 1 / Cup of Tea (1.58)
- Pake Dwyer (tin whistle) – Maud Miller / Flowers of Red Hill (1.31)
- Mick Gorman & Ed Murphy (flute/fiddle) – Colonel Rodgers /Happy Days of Youth (2.32)
- Joe O’Dowd (fiddle) – Strayaway Child (3.06)
- John Hannon (vocal) – My Native Town of Boyle (4.09)
- Christy Hannon (flute) – Last Night’s Fun (1.01)
- Fred Finn (fiddle) – Old Blackthorn (1.34)
- Tommy Hunt (tin whistle) – Scatter the Mud / Major Moran’s (2.11)
- Josie McDermott (flute) – Fermoy Lasses / Cup of Tea (1.35)
- Tom Cawley (fiddle) – Doocastle / Boil the Breakfast Early (3.25)
- Elizabeth Bolger – (Accordion) The Ewe (1.15)
- Mick Regan (fiddle) -Sligo maid / The Crooked Road to Dublin (1.52)
- Martin Wynne (fiddle) – Martin Wynne’s No. 1 (1.24)
- Larry Reddingan (banjo) – Boys / Humours of Ballisodare (1.59)
- Tom McGowan (fiddle) – Old Maids of Sligo / Primrose Lass (2.27)
- Jim Murray (vocal) – Maid of Sweet Gurteen (2.55)
- Peter Horan (flute) – Tom Ward’s Downfall / Mullinavat (2.16)
- Johnny Giblin (story) (0.34)
- Jim Donoghue (tin whistle) – Pidgeon on the Gate (2.20)
- Seamus O’Donnell Snr. (lilt) – The Green Fields of Rossbeigh (2.00)
- Mary Ellen Giblin (fiddle) – Steampacket (1.02)
- Pakie Duignan (flute) – Bridie Morley / Corney is coming (1.56)
- Johnny Henry/Tommy Hunt (fiddle/flute) – Paddy Kelly’s (2.24)
- Johnny Henry (fiddle) – Never was Piping so Gay (1.22)
- Thomas Bernard Ryan (talk/flute) – The Pullet (1.13)
- Fintan McDonagh (vocal) – Collooney Town (2.52)
- Seamus Horan (fiddle) – Dunmore Lasses / Sligo Maid / Molloy’s Favourite (2.55)
- Gerry Donagher (mouth organ) – An Fhuiseoigín Rua / Miss McGuinness (2.36)
- Mick Joe Ryan (story) (1.44)
- Fred Finn(fiddle) – Wailing Banshee / Butcher’s March (2.04)
- Paddy Killoran/Eleanor Neary (fiddle/piano) – Kitty Down the Lane (1.44)
- Clogs Gallagher (fiddle) – Morrison’s / Whelan’s (2.19)
- Ellie Osbourne (lilt) – The Sally Gardens (1.12)
- Jim Donoghue (tin whistle) – Newport Lass / Jim Donoghue’s Favourite (2.08)
This CD represents a broad cross section of recordings which exist in the music archive of the Coleman Heritage Centre, Gurteen, Co. Sligo. Fiddle playing is well represented on the CD, this being a reflection on the popularity of the instrument in south Sligo a generation ago.
