Various Artists – The Coleman Archive Vol.1 – The Living Tradition

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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.