An absolute stoater! A Great Session = 'The maximum fun possible, every night!' From Dundalk to Belfast, and finding freedom in Edinburgh. Hamish Henderson and the wild nights in Sandy Bell's. Mike One-Shirt and Luke Plumb; Deaf Shepherd and the great encouragers like Cathal McConnell. The consolations of music. House sessions in Venice Beach, meeting the daughter of the man who wrote Thíos Cois na Trá, and so much more. Awesome.
\n\nIn this episode Nuala plays and sings...
\n\nKitty Gone A Milking
\nTáimse Im' Chodladh
\nThe King's House (Scottish retreat march)
\nThe Flower of Magherally (from the singing of Cathal McConnell)
\nOnwards and Upwards
\nand
\nThíos Cois na Trá
You can find Nuala's music here:
\nhttps://www.nualakennedy.com/store
And since we were talking about it - here's a link to Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh:
\nhttps://sandybells.com/
Nuala mentioned meeting the poet (critic and activist) Hamish Henderson there once night. Here's a great bio of him from the Scottish Poetry Library:
\nhttps://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/hamish-henderson/
Maybe his best known work is The Freedom Come All Ye - a great (GREAT) anti-imperialist song. Peformed here by (who else) Dick Gaughan.
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nLGKFTH5sw
...So come all ye at hame wi’ Freedom,
\nNever heed whit the hoodies croak for doom.
\nIn your hoose a’ the bairns o’ Adam
\nCan find breid, barley-bree and painted room.
\nWhen MacLean meets wi’s freens in Springburn
\nA’ the roses and geans will turn tae bloom,
\nAnd a black boy frae yont Nyanga
\nDings the fell gallows o’ the burghers doon.
Dick Gaughan, who I once saw play in the old BBC concert hall at 5 Queen Street, Edinburgh. Around the time when Nuala was hanging out just across town in Sandy Bell's.
\n\nWe seem to say this every week, but what a treat, this episode. Thanks Nuala.
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'I could play reels all night if I knew enough of them.' Country Sligo in the '50s and '60s, to London then Sydney. Father, mother and uncle playing the fiddle, learning at country house dances and 'having a go myself.' Ceili House on Radio Athlone, and looking forward to Friday night house dances. Falling in love with the accordion. Listening to the greats of the London scene; learning the box, digging trenches and labouring; Kentish Town and Holloway Road. Plenty of work in Sydney, and getting out and about playing for dancers.
\n\nIn this episode Jimmy plays:
\n\nGeorge White's and The Galway Rambler
\nThe Haunted House Set
\nThe Stone of Destiny
\nThe Sally Gardens and The Sligo Maid
\n('...two of the old favourites I learned when I was growing up...')
The picture of Jimmy that we're using for this episode was taken by Ian Stewart - thanks for permission to use it, Ian.
\n\nThe players you can hear on the audio recorded at Tangambalanga are Jimmy, Joe Fitzgerald, Jamie Molloy, Jody Moran, Gerry McKeague, Edel McBride, Kit Joyce, Declan Simpson, John Joe Noonan, Paul Gallagher, Ian Stewart and others. Apologies to anybody I've missed - it was that kind of weekend.
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From Cavan to Glasgow. Party houses and late night tapes. Finding your feet in sessions that suit. Creating your own space to play. The Navvy poet Patrick MacGill, The Road Across The Hill, Newcomer and The Children Of The Dead End.
\n\nIn this episode we play:
\n\nThe Road Across the Hills
\nNewcomer
\nBy and By
\nAtone
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nTo buy Gráinne's music go here: https://grainnebrady.bandcamp.com/
\n\nVisit her website here: https://www.grainnebradyfiddle.com/
\n\nAnd to follow on socials go here:
\nhttps://facebook.com/grainnebradyfiddle
\nhttps://instagram.com/grainnebradyfiddle
\nhttps://twitter.com/grainnebrady
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/bradyg6/featured
The artist that I spoke about that designed Gráinne's covers is called Somhairle MacDonald and you'll find him here:
\nhttps://www.somhairle.co.uk/
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/fatherofschmo/?hl=en
Thanks fo much for this Gráinne. I can't wait to hear what's next.
\n\nCheers
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Tin whistle with Marian Egan (Flannery) in Hulme. Touring New Zealand and Australia. First banjos and joining Curragh. Toss the Feathers and choosing work over the road. The social side of learning. Joe and Jack Cooley and the lost tapes from America. The Love of Lucia, Kitty’s Twelve Roses and The Gort Mile.
\n\nIn this episode Angela plays:
\n\nPort Chuilinn / The Munster Buttermilk / Bobby Casey's (Banjo jigs)
\nThe Coalminers / Patsy Toughey's / Finbar Dwyais (Tin whistle set)
\nFlat Water Fran / Little Fair Cannavans (Tenor Guitar)
\nThe Rainy Day / My Margann / Coleman's Cross (Banjo reels)
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nTo buy Angela's album 'The Gort Mile' go here: https://www.angelaushermusic.com/shop/
\n\nTo read her beautiful liner notes go here: https://www.angelaushermusic.com/about-the-album/
\n\nTo follow Angela online go here: https://www.facebook.com/ange.durcan
\n\n--
\n\nPodcast Recommendations:
\n\nAt the top of the show Darren mentions a rake of podcasts he thinks are worth your time and money. Give them a whirl and let us know what you think.
\n\nIrish Music Stories by Shannon Heaton: https://shannonheatonmusic.com/ims/
\n\nTell Me A Story by Eddie Lenihan: https://shows.acast.com/tell-me-a-story-with-eddie-lenihan
\n\nFire Draw Near by Ian Lynch: https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
\n\nBlindboy Podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy
\n\nGet Up In The Cool by Cameron DeWhitt: https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/
\n\nThat's it for another week. Angela thank you so much for all your time, chats and tunes.
\n\nCheers,
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Irish Fenian rebellion prisoners and the songs of the last convict ship to Australia. Ned Of The Hill, John Boyle O'Reilly and Exile In The Kingdom. The Stardust Hotel and the birth of Drogheda Boxing Club. The London squat scene, Jamaican sound systems and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Secret Family Recipes and looking back at tradition with rose tinted glasses. No Bother.
\n\nIn this episode we hear:
\n\nO'Niell's March
\nLast Rose Of Summer
\nFreedom - Exile In The Kingdom
\nNed Of The Hill
\nGoodnight Sweetheart
Make sure you check out Enda's ABC Australia documentary 'Songs of the last convict ship'. You'll find it here on the ABC's site: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/songs-of-the-last-convict-ship/12767044
\n\nIf it's geo-restricted in your country you can listen as a podcast via Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/songs-of-the-last-convict-ship/id1337405260?i=1000495597902
\n\nYou'll find everything you need to know about Enda's film work on his website, including the brilliant 'Secret Family Recipes' here: http://virusmedia.com.au/
\n\nEnda also sent us the video he made for Exile In The Kingdom back in the day. Exile In the Kingdom features Tony Conaghy, John Hodgins, Joe McCormack and Gavin Kierans. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeWesoxGPE0&feature=emb_logo
\n\nThe book I mentioned about the socio-political effects and consequences of ecstasy and rave culture is called 'Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House'. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269851.Altered_State
\n\n--
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Buying your first guitar with your confirmation money. Playing 182 tunes in two hours. Winning Réalta agus Gaolta. Cutting your teeth in Raglan Road Orlando. Finding a mentor in Kíla's Rónán Ó Snodaigh. Translating the craic. Avoiding the abyss of lockdown and a casual Disney Princess flex.
\n\nIn this episode Maċa play:
\n\nDevil's Den
\nSomething Blue
\nFeel Like Home
\nCall On You
Buy Maċa's new album 'Spiral' here:
\nhttps://macaofficial.com/
Follow them on the socials here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/macaceol
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/ceol.maca/
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1L87V_SmApBE1phXvDw8_g
Catch Maċa live during the Irish Music Magazine's St. Patrick's Day From Home Facebook Live gig.
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2823877824517871
Finally here's that link to the Paddy Glackin and Jolyon Jackson 'Hidden Ground' album I mention at the top of the podcast. NOT TO BE MISSED!
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UTjsLyEgog&ab_channel=PereGrino
To listen, stream or download this episode simply click a link below:
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\n\nSaoirse, Naoise and Ciara thank you so much for everything getting this chat together. Legends!
\n\nCheers,
\nDarren
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Finding Michael Jackson in the Blue Mountains after ten years in a Buddhist Bush community. A year of four hour nights. Mozart with a Sligo lilt. Ten hour train trips for one hour lessons. Scottish baroque music, modal tunes, violin d'amore, and combining art music and folk music.
\n\nCatch Shane Lestideau in Queenscliff during the Boxwood Festival from the 19th to the 21st of Feb 2021. Joining Shane at Boxwood are Maggie Carty, Máirtín Staunton, Andy Rigby, Aifric Boylan, Chris Norman and Coral Reid.
\n\nFor tickets, online registration and Zoom Huddle info, go here:
\nwww.boxwood.org
In this episode Shane plays:
\n\nCapricorn Rising
\nCastle Kelly's / The Ivy Leaf / The Otter’s Holt / The Glass of Beer
\nThe Horseman's Port
\nTam Lin / The Juggler
\nSonata on the Lea Rig
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nTo Find out more about Shane go here:
\nhttps://www.shanelestideau.com/
To follow Shane online go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/shane.lestideau/
Shane, thank you so much for this.
\n\nCheers,
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Stiff Little Fingers, punk rock, rebel songs and finding your tribe. Getting your head shard. Good listening makes good music. An Achill Island session and a musical awakening. Losing good friends and finding solace in music. GameStop, countercultures, DIY creativity, Inflammable Material, and of course, The Irish Mandolin... 1-2-3-4!
\n\nIn this episode Aidan plays:
\n\nMy Singing Bird / The Bird In The Bush
\nJunior Crehans / Nightcap
\nMcQuillans Hill (Original)
\nMichael Gregory's (Original)
\nKilnamona Barndance (From the playing of Martin Hayes)
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nPlease make sure you head over to Aidan's website, it's well worth the visit: https://theirishmandolin.com/
\n\nWhile you're at it make sure you follow Aidan on Twitter: @TheMandolin
\n\n--
\n\nI bloody loved this chat Aidan. Thank you so much for sharing your stories, your tunes and for being the kick up the arse I needed to finally listen to The Stiffs.
\n\nLegend!
\n\nD
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Digging into tunes. Paddy Jones. The Draoicht. Sports and music, and finding your place in both. Coaching basketball in Ireland and the Tralee Tigers. Carl Hardebeck, The Blind Bard of Belfast. The fiddle as an old person's instrument. Sliabh Luachra. Padraig O'Keeffe. Paddy on the Hardwood. Slow airs in sessions and New Mexico polkas.
\n\nIn this episode Rus plays:
\n\nWestfort Gals
\nThe Pikeman's / Down The Glen (Marches)
\nFarewell To Whiskey / The Dark Girl In The Blue Dress
\nLeaving Lerwick (Paddy Jones Slow Air)
\nKerry Polka / Purple Lillies
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nYou can find out more about Rus on his website here:
\nhttps://www.rusbradburd.com/
You'll find Rus's book 'Paddy on The Hardwood' here or ask about it at your local book shop:
\nhttps://unmpress.com/books/paddy-hardwood/9780826340276
Paddy Jones 6 YouTube videos. Absolutely worth a watch:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMlutJrUsOZnj84sQ-aVbsTNpUxqw7pt
During the interview Rus mentions Carl Hardebeck. This is a great piece about him here:
\nThe Blind Bard of Belfast: Carl Gilbert Hardebeck:
\nhttps://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/the-blind-bard-of-belfast-carl-gilbert-hardebeck-1869-1945/
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\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
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The Liam O'Flynn Award. Digging into the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Ulster hunting songs and mummers. Hare coursing. Life in Lurgan County Armagh. The Ceili House and legend of Seamus Tansey. Prehistoric cairns and building on the tradition. The magic of the session and finding inspiration in the music.
\n\nIn this episode Barry Plays:
\n\nThe Holy Trinity Reels: Clancy from Clare / The Rambles of Ennis / Master Rowesome’s
\nOf Sportsmen Bold
\nThe Chicken Gone to Scotland / Unnamed tune from Fintan Vallely
\nJohnny Henry's
To buy Barry's music go here:
\nhttps://barrykerr1.bandcamp.com/
To find out more about Barry and his art fo here:
\nhttps://www.barrykerr.com/
To follow Barry on socials go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/ceol1111
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/barry.kerr/
\nhttps://twitter.com/barrykerr1
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.com
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\n\nBarry, thank you so much, this was a blast.
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\n\nWe want the podcast to be free to listen to for as many people as possible. But without the support from at least some of you we couldn’t keep putting out an episode a week. That’s why we’re asking you to become a Patron (Saint) of the podcast. www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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We ARE the source.' John Kelly of Capel Street and Scattery Island. Hiding the fiddle under your jacket in Dublin in the rare oul times. Strange hornpipes, slip jigs, slides. Patsy Geary, Jimmy O'Donahue and Kilfenora's three bakeries. The memory palace and preserving a life. Ireland, Australia, Tommy Potts posters and the evocative power of seagulls. Searching out the music in Darwin. Sydney, Melbourne and going back home.
\n\nAlso, maybe young kids shouldn't listen to the intro of this ep. There's a bit of Santa chat in there they might wanna miss.
\n\nThanks to Bill Martin of Geelong for helping make this episode possible.
\n\nMary Brennan's (after Aoife's great, great grandmother from Scattery Island)
\nHornpipes - The Ebb Tide and John Kelly's Hornpipe
\nJigs - Bimish Ag Ol, Patsy Gearys and Brian O'Lynn's
\nTwo reels - The Cabin Hunter and Delia Crowley's
\nThree jigs - Scattery Island, Siney Crotty's and John Kelly's Slide
The amazing website Aoife created archiving the music and work of her grandfather, John Kelly, is here:
\nhttp://johnkellycapelstreet.ie/
And you can find Aoife's web design work here:
\nhttps://www.aoifekelly.com
You can find more info about Mise Fosta here:
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/misefosta/
\n'We aim to change the culture of abuse and harassment within the Irish traditional music & dance scene.
\nContact us at misefostarunda@gmail.com'
And you'll find FairPlé here:
\nhttps://www.fairple.com/
\n'FairPlé aims to achieve gender balance in the production, performance, promotion, and development of Irish traditional and folk music. We advocate for equal opportunity and balanced representation for all.'
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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A bit of beach time, and the third of our compilations from the year of 2020. Featuring Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Una Monaghan, Jason Rouse, Emma Lewis, Joanie Madden, Rita Farrell, Daithí Gormley, James Keane, Tara Howley, Sean Lally, Cathy Custy, Hajime Takahashi, Catherine McEvoy, Ciaran Kelly, Cameron Mather, Áine Tyrrell, Sean Mathews, Liam Thomas Bailey, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Tola Custy and Tola Custy live with Ado Barker.
\n\nThe tunes (I think we've got 'em all...)
\n\nCaoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - Kitty Lie Over
\nUna Monaghan - Nana Nora's and The Clean Player
Jason Rouse - The Famous Ballymote / Scotch Mary
\nEmma Lewis - Dwyer's Jig / O'Sullivan's March / untitled jig
\nJoanie Madden - The Cat's Meow
\nRita Farrell - The Happy Days of Youth and Colonel Rodgers' (often known as McKenna's 1 & 2)
\nDaithí Gormley - Last Night's Fun
\nJames Keane - tunes to bring his father back for a visit - Tom Ward's Downfall, Farewell to Erin (from the playing of Paddy O'Brien) and Dillon's Fancy
Tara Howley - The Legacy/Paidín Ó Raifeartaigh
\nSean Lally - The May Morning Dew / Humours of Ballyloughlin
\nCathy Custy - A Jig and the Cliffs of Moher
\nHajime Takahashi - Unnamed Tune
\nCatherine McEvoy - Bánchnoic Éireann Ó
Ciaran Kelly - The Showman's Fancy and The Galway Hornpipe.
\nCameron Mather - Fergal O’Gara’s / The Bag of Spuds / The Boys of ‘45
\nÁine Tyrrell - In This House
\nSean Mathews - Welcome to Ballsgrove
\nLiam Thomas Bailey - The Broken Parts + The Maids of Mitchelstown
\nEoghan Ó Ceannabháin - The Deepest Breath
Rita Farrell - The Drunken Gauger / The Humours of Ballingarry / The Girl From the Big House
\nTola Custy - Love at the Ending
\nand
\nTola Custy with Ado Barker - The Broken Pledge/The Porthole of the Kelp/Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
Our heartfelt thanks go outto everyone who's supported the podcast over the past year with emails, chats, words of encouragement and suggestions. And to the musicians.
\n\nSeriously - without you all, we wouldn't be doing this. All the best from us to you for 2021. Hang in there.
\n\nLove
\n\nDarren and Dom
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Ahh, the week between Xmas and NYD. Sure what else would you be doing but watching classic TV and making best of 2020 lists.
\nHere's part 2 of our SMASH HITS 2020 to help you through.
Don Meade -The Haunted House and The Lark on The Strand
\nShannon Heaton - P. Joe Hayes Number 2, The Cottage in the Grove and The Mother and Child Reel (with Matt Heaton)
\nElaine O'Sullivan - Toss The Feathers and Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band
\nCaitlin NicGabhann - Slip Jigs: Na Ceannabhain Bhana, Bean Phaidin, Nead na Lachan
Hajime Takahashi - The Mountains of Pomeroy
\nGeoff McArthur - Free Trade Hill
\nLiam Thomas Bailey - Two Bird Stone
\nJody Moran - The Road to Lisdoonvarna and The Gatehouse Maid
\nMairtin Staunton - Trippin Up The Stairs and another jig
Caoimhin O'Raighallaigh - The Lonesome Jig ('or an echo of it, anyway')
\nUna Monaghan - An Dearcadh (from the album 'For')
\nMichael Walsh - The Visitor (from the album 'Quarehawk')
\nRob Zielinski - Black Mare of Fannett / The Yellow Heifer
\nEwen Baker - Sheehan's Reel
\nMary McEvilly - Old Joe's Jig, Maid on the Green and Sweet Biddy Daly
Kevin Crawford - Hula Hoop / Mary Bergin's Gan Ainm
\n\nA huge thank you, as always, to these musicians who shared their music and their stories with us.
\n\n--
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\n\nBecome a Patron Saint of the Blarney Pilgrims Podcast.
\n\nWe want the podcast to be free to listen to for as many people as possible. But without the support from at least some of you we couldn’t keep putting out an episode a week. That’s why we’re asking you to become a Patron (Saint) of the podcast. www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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All the best of the tunes and songs from the last year of Blarney Pilgrims Podcast. And by way of thanks, the conferring of titles on the Patron Saints who've supported the podcast over the last year and a half.
\n\n'Out of the blue, maybe thirty, forty birds come and they all start singing beautiful, that was the feeling it had like, you know...'
\n\nThank you, above all, to the musicians who were so generous to chat with us over the past year.
\nFeatured in this episode...
Karen Dolan - Calliope House and Fi's Frolics
\nAifric Boylan - The Golden Castle / Mickey Callaghan's Fancy
\nDaithi Gormley - My Love is Fair and Handsome and The Maid of Mount Cisco
\nKevin Crawford - Old John's and The Longford Tinker
\nLuke Plumb - The Cornerhouse, The Lady's Pantalettes and The Bird in the Bush
Jack Brennan - Garrett Barry's Jig
\nCaity Brennan - Roll Out The Barrel / Christmas Eve / Castle Kelly
\nCatherine McEvoy - East of Glendart / The Green Fields of Woodford
\nTheresa O'Grady - The Milky Way (Vincent Broderick)
\nKen Fleming - three polkas, one unnamed and The Blackwater 1 and 2
Eoghan O'Ceannabhain - A song Eoghan learned from his father and grandmother - Meiriceá
\nMerran Moir - The Longford Collector / Castle Kelly
\nÚna Monaghan - Mammy's
\nMick Doherty - The Stack of Barley and The Bantry Bay Hornpipe
and finally, to finish,
\nBush Gothic (from June 2019)
\nand
\nJoe Fitzgerald - Andy's Gone With Cattle
--
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
\n\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nwww.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
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The legend. 'We just kept climbing up that mountain.' The hardest working woman in folk music. Hearing Mary Bergin and the beginnings of a career in the entertainment business. New York, the drive to succeed and picking up the phone thirty times a day to get a gig. Balls, weddings, county dances, and the circuit. An American in Ireland. Tour(s), interrupted. 'It's a tough old racket.' Keeping going and being present for the opportunity.
\n\nAnd the tunes!
\n\nThe Palm Tree (Billy McComiskey) and a tune from Brendan Mulvihill
\nThe Cat's Meow
\nCailín na Gruaige Doinne (The Girl with the Brown Hair)
\nA reel and
\nHynes's March
You can find out about the 'Cherish The Ladies Concert Christmas In Ireland' here.
\nhttp://cherishtheladies.com/
And you can buy tickets from here:
\nhttps://boxoffice.mandolin.com/collections/cherish-the-ladies-christmas-in-ireland
And Joanie's website has loads of extra good stuff:
\nhttps://joaniemadden.com/
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nJoanie Madden: thank you.
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\n\nBecome a Patron Saint of the Blarney Pilgrims Podcast.
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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So much in here: piping as meditation and not setting fire to the old Ganley flute. Starting on the whistle but falling for the pipes despite the danger. The eternal conversation: reeds, drones and regulators. The session spaces of Belfast, open piping closed piping, Tommy Reck and saying 'I Love You' to Liam O'Flynn. Being a girl and running an all female session. A room tuned to G Minor, the Drogheda connection, the five string banjo and 'Lovely Leitrim.' Oh. And Robbie Williams and Graham Norton too. Bish Bash Bosh. What a treat.
\n\nThe tunes:
\nTwo jigs - Mama's Pet and Hinchey's Delight
\nAlexander's Hornpipe and The Kildare fancy
\nTwo McKenna Reels
\nThe Sailor's Cravate, I'm Waiting For You and Bonny Kate (from the playing of Tommy Reck)
\nThe Drunken Gauger
\nand
\nLovely Leitrim (thanks Mr & Mrs Farrell)
Every week we are amazed by how much fun we've had - seriously.
\nAnd then the next week we are amazed all over again.
Rita, thank you.
\n\nP.s. For anyone interested in the London Facebook group mentioned in the episode you'll find it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IrishMusicLondonGroup
\n\n--
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Stories of a life in music, so far. Ancient tunes and new ones, losing a loved one and finding her again through tunes. The Irish connection. Out of The Wind, Into the Sun: depression, loss, and the therapeutic power of psilocybin mushrooms. Recovery into music. All of everything in a single tune. 'Keeping myself in the air as an artist.' Country song-smithing, Darren's unending love of pop, Dom's unending love of neon COLD BEER signs. The road, the weight, a writer not writing. Bruce Springsteen, Cillian Vallely, Jon Bon Jovi and a little bit o' John Denver.
\n\nThe tunes:
\nCastle Kelly's and Brelydian (Bob Brozeman and Donal O'Connor)
\nTwo Bird Stone
\nThe Broken Parts + The Maids of Michelstown
\nSinead Maire’s Jig (Cillian Vallely) and the Sporting Pitchfork
\nLucy Farr's and 'The 99'
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nYou can listen to Liam's other podcast about depression, psilocybin mushrooms, psychedelics and recovery over here: https://soundcloud.com/thecuriosityhourpodcast/s08-e156-liam_thomas_bailey
\n\nYou can buy Liam's music and band (Two Bird Stone) from here: https://liamthomasbailey.com/
\n\nAnd you can follow him here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/liam.bailey.338
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/liamthomasbailey/
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnj_ugXbIK0y0PvpqaYXtaA?view_as=subscriber
Finally, the Triúr series by Máirtín Hayes, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Peadar Ó Riada that Liam mentioned can be bought here: http://www.peadaroriada.ie/shopstoresiopa/
\n\nThanks Liam. This was a cracker.
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
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A chat to mark passing the 100K download mark, with Gerry McKeague of Belfast and Geelong. About what we've learned so far and where we're going. Seriously great fun, and a lovely chance for us to think out loud about what this all means to us. And to say thank to all of you who've travelled with us this far.
\n\nTunes:
\nDarren plays Sandy River Belle and Morphine
\nDominic sings Please Tell My Brother
\nand
\nGerry sings Sailing Southwards from Rathlin Island
During the episode Darren spoke about his good friend Jae Mulder the urban explorer. This is one of the last posts Jae made to Reddit before he moved on. He was always a very careful guy when it came to sharing as he didn't want to get in trouble with the law. Well in the end that didn't really matter so he shared his adventures with us all. RIP Jae man. HOONK HOOOOONK!
\n\nPhoto album: https://imgur.com/a/WOS0G
\nReddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/8480df/over_10_years_ago_i_used_to_be_heavily_into_urban/
Darren also mentioned a place called 610 Anne Street in Brisbane that the DIY punk and noise scene was based around for a time. Here's a great article that brings some of it to life. https://gladrappa.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/610-ann-street-circa-2005/?fbclid=IwAR0AGbPH6-5DFO6aKj3UYIx-n5WYAoui8YRI5g1o7FtFl_t08N7WpvNcfqU
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\n\nWe want the podcast to be free to listen to for as many people as possible. But without the support from at least some of you we couldn’t keep putting out an episode a week. That’s why we’re asking you to become a Patron (Saint) of the podcast. www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Kilfenora; the nervous you get playing in front of ten people, worse than playing in front of a thousand. Leaving your ego at the door. Being happy with what you're doing, being happy within yourself. First hearing the pipes and the trials of competition. Restless creativity, and finding your way to Riverdance. Managing social media and the inner self. (And a Burmese Mountain Dog called Saoirse).
\n\nThe tunes:
\nThe Cat's Meaow (Joanie Madden) and Ward's Jig
\nThe Three Kilfenoras
\nA Slow Air...
\nQueen of the Fair
\nand
\nTwo jigs
Tara Howley Music:
\nwww.facebook.com/tarahowleymusic/
Tara's Instagram is here:
\nwww.instagram.com/tarahowleymusic/
There's a cool video of Tara and her dad here: Tara Howley Traditional Irish Music and Dance
\nwww.youtube.com/watch?v=bVMrAJN5UzQ
Thanks Tara. Lovely stuff.
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\n\nWe want the podcast to be free to listen to for as many people as possible. But without the support from at least some of you we couldn’t keep putting out an episode a week. That’s why we’re asking you to become a Patron (Saint) of the podcast. www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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" 'England gave me everything I ever wanted.' " The Quarehawk. Big Tom, Margo, the Manchester scene; Irish, English, and in-between. A love of England and making a whole out of two halves. Grieving, and crafting an album. Fathers, sons, boys, men. Asturias, the flute and identifying as one thing or another. Getting Kepa Junkera to play on your album. And so much more. Brilliant stuff.
\n\nThe tunes:
\nQuarehawk (from Michael's album of the same name)
\nThe Boys of Bluehill and the Stockport Hornpipe
\nThe Visitor (from Quarehawk)
\nThe Shores of Loch Bran
\nMuñeira de Rengos
\nPaddy's Return and the Trip to Athlone
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\n\nYou can buy Michael Walsh's music from: www.michaelwalshmusic.com or https://michaelwalsh1.bandcamp.com/album/quarehawk
\n\nBuy merch from: https://www.mudchutney.co.uk/collections/michael-walsh-quarehawk-clothing
\n\nTo read about Michael's academic research go here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/people/phd-researchers
\n\nYou can read the paper 'Gender and Culture: Revoicing Traditional Song in
\nContext' by Lillis Ó Laoire here: https://www.ictm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Gender-and-Culture-Revoicing-Traditional-Song-in-Context-Lillis-O-Laoire.pdf
While you're clicking links, make sure you check out the other artists on Michael's album:
\n\nLiz Hank Cello : www.lizhankscello.com
\nMike Garry Poet: www.mikegarry.co.uk
\nKepa Junkera : www.kepajunkera.com
\nLeticia González Menéndez & Rubén Bada L-R : https://l-rpostfolk.bandcamp.com/
\nSimon Bradley https://www.musicscotland.com/cd/simon-bradley-luke-plumb-wintering-out.html
\nBryony Griffiths & Will Hampson https://bryonygriffith.com/
\nRíoghonach Connolly : www.rioghnachconnolly.com
\nMichael McGoldrick : https://michaelmcgoldrick.bandcamp.com/album/watermans-live-ep
I think that's all! Michael - thank you.
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Jig songs, syncopation and keeping away from the funky chicken tunes. Playing out til 4 in the morning with your dad on a Fleadh Saturday night. The magic of Donegal, chancing your arm for a Riverdance audition and not talking to Maria Carey at the pyramids. Finding your own musical voice. Battering, sets and the beauty of West Clare dancing. Youth trad Tinder, the elusive high G# and teaching the concertina to learners across the world.
\n\nTo listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nIn this episode Caitlín plays:
\n\nSlip Jigs: Na Ceannabhain Bhana, Bean Phaidin, Nead na Lachan
\nJigs: One for dad and 'Tune for Bernie'
\nWaltz: Sunday's Well
\nReels: Leeside Sessions, Reel with the Beryl, Come west along the road
\nSet dance: Planxty Davis
Make sure you check out Caitlín's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/Caitl%C3%ADnNicGabhann/videos
\n\nAnd while you're there check out this tune Caitlín wrote during lockdown, with Ciaran on octave fiddle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Suy6RheAk
\n\nThe Mullagh Half set which we spoke about can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPwfGJEJb0c&t=43s
\n\nThis is the RTE short doco on battering from 1971: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0210/766882-beat-of-the-feet/
\n\nHere's a rough video of Caitlín's uncle John Murphy dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5D39XOIBDM
\n\nAnd another with Caitlín's mam (Bernie) joining him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n1imz9ZWnI
\n\nThis is a video of the step-about that would happen at some point during the night of the annual housedance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETbZAJJeLg&t=10s
\n\nThe musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbFIz2ykTbY
\n\nFINALLY.
\n\nYou can buy Caitlín's music here: https://caitlinciaran.bandcamp.com
\n\nFor those looking for concertina lessons you'll fine the website here: https://www.irishconcertinalessons.com
\n\nAnd finally the concertina week Caitlín mentioned can be found here: www.ConcertinaWeek.com
\n\nCaitlín this was 100% great craic. Thanks for the chat, stories, phenomenal tunes and for opening our eyes to the world of battering.
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From Ballsgrove to Dooley Gate. Drogheda singing group to Marcelo Bielsa. Innovating and finding your voice. Halloween, bonfires, fireworks, hash and Scrumpy Jack. Parochial Kavanagh, Jinx Lennon, Blindboy Boatclub and the rise and fall of the commuter belt.
\n\nThis is Sean Mathew's second appearance on the podcast and it's bloody good for the soul I tell ya! Most of the chat is based around Drogheda but really, everything that is said in here will apply to most large towns.
\n\nIn this episode Sean sings:
\nSweet Dooley Gate
\nAnnan Waters
\nWelcome To Ballsgrove
\nThe Commuter's Song
\nTurns and Tolls
To buy Sean's music, particularly his new single 'Welcome To Ballsgrove" go here:
\nhttps://seanymathews.bandcamp.com/
Visit his website here:
\nwww.seanmathews.com/
To follow him go here:
\nwww.facebook.com/seanmathewsmusic
\nwww.instagram.com/seany.mathews
For those that believe seeing is believing, here are some photos of the school Darren spoke about... Grim!
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/humansofstmarysdiocesan/photos/pcb.1911664279087736/1911664112421086
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/humansofstmarysdiocesan/photos/pcb.1911664279087736/1911664099087754
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/humansofstmarysdiocesan/photos/pcb.1911664279087736/1911664202421077
Sean, this was an absolute blast and much needed. Thank you again.
\n\n...
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Mitching classes to work on your music. Sean-nós: 'My granny would have just called them songs.' Tradition and change, art and technique and the soul of the thing. Writing in English, writing in Irish. Activism, collectivity and music as barriers against despair.
\n\nThe tunes:
\nTwo reels - The Green Bunch of Rushes and The Merry Sisters of Fate
\nTá na Páipéir dhá Saighneáil
\nA song Eoghan learned from his father and grandmother - Meiriceá
\nThe Monaghan Jig
\nand
\nEoghan's song, The Deepest Breath
You can find the video for The Deepest Breath here, and it's unmissable:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjPHKJaCb38&feature=emb_logo
\nDirected by Myles O'Reilly.
'Solas An Lae,' Eoghan's album with Ultan O'Brien, has one of my favourite covers of all time - and the music is cracking.
\nPre-order it here:
\nhttps://eoghanultan.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR0pR0UxdIctwvOacAzaW1sDF4enXl6FNQbLrEKKp-6qoXCD47_lmZPR-V8
And you can find a link to People Before Profit here:
\nhttp://peoplebefore-profit.com/
Eoghan, thank you.
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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The elusive nya! Making tunes your own, ornamentation and phrasing and the old East Clare style. Francie Donnellan, Seamus Bugler, Martin Woods and a tune by the stove. Learning, loving, leaving the music, and returning. 'Songs My Father Sang,' the journey, knowing yourself and the truth in music.
\n\nThe tunes Cli plays this week:
\n\nThe Corner House and The Glen Allen (two reels)
\n\nThe Binder Twine (Lifted from the 'Songs My Father Sang' album)
\n\nCaisleán An Óir
\n\nThe Trip To London
\n\nand The Legacy (written by Cli Donnellan)
\n\nYou can buy Cli's CD from her website: https://www.clicreativechange.com
\n\nOr if you're so inclined it's also available from Cli's Bandcamp here: clidonnellan.bandcamp.com
\n\nWhile you're there make sure you check out 'Songs My Father Sang'. A collection of 13 songs put together by Cli of her father Sean Donnellan.
\n\nYou can also join Cli every Sunday at 12 Noon (Irish time) on The Morning Dew Trad Music Radio Show over at Scariff Bay Radio: http://www.scariffbayradio.com/
\n\nThank you Cli, for such an immersive, beautiful conversation.
\n\n...
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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A Supergroup at the National Celtic Festival. Remembering and forgetting the names of tunes. Ballintubber, County Mayo and musicians in the house. The freedom of the open road, to Boston and Australia. Maintaining a love of kids even when you've been teaching for twenty years or so, and fostering a growth mindset - in children, and yourself.
\n\nThanks to Una McAlinden of the National Celtic Festival at Portarlington for giving us the opportunity to hang out in 2019 when we first met Mary. And thanks to Mark Butler for his technical help with the recording.
\n\nThe tunes:
\n\nLast Night's Fun and The Bank of Ireland (as single reels)
\nOld Joe's Jig, The Maid on the Green and Sweet Biddy Daly (from the playing of Mary's dad)
\nThe Sailor on The Rock, Sporting Paddy and John Henry's (reels)
\nThe Blackberry Blossom and The Gatehouse Maid (reels)
\nThe Connaghtman's Rambles (a gorgeous version) and Out on the Ocean
Beautiful. Cracking chat and tunes. Thank you Mary, for that hour and a half of your time, and for giving us so much to think about.
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
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The hornpipe is the rebel, the wink, the wee pocket of mischief. Electronics, samples, rhythms. The harp, and the influence of Janet Harbison. Performing for others and performing alone. Art and listener responses. The Star Factory, mapping Belfast, engineering in sound. Gender, power, Mise Fosta and equal representation in the music business in Ireland.
\n\nÚna's website is the place to go for more info about her life and work (very cool stuff to discover):
\nhttp://www.unamonaghan.com/
The first three tracks we listen to together are from Úna's album, 'For', which you can buy here:
\nhttps://www.unamonaghan.com/?page_id=364
They're 'Nanny Nora's and The Clean Player,' 'Mammy's,' and 'An Dearcadh.'
\n\nThe last track is 'The Chinwag,' which you can see Úna perform here:
\nhttps://vimeo.com/147473420
You can find more info about Mise Fosta here:
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/misefosta/
\n'We aim to change the culture of abuse and harassment within the Irish traditional music & dance scene.
\nContact us at misefostarunda@gmail.com'
And you'll find FairPlé here:
\nhttps://www.fairple.com/
\n'FairPlé aims to achieve gender balance in the production, performance, promotion, and development of Irish traditional and folk music. We advocate for equal opportunity and balanced representation for all.'
Úna - thank you for such a wonderful, unique listening experience.
\n\nDarren and Dominic
\n\n--
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dominic
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'Know when you've landed.' A first trip to New York and painting the town with Joe Burke and friends. Bill Fuller's ballroom empire, The Woodworm Hotel, and the John Barleycorn. Overcoming adversity and reaching some sort of contentment. Paul Brady, Michael D. Higgins and staying with the music.
\n\nThe tunes in this episode, recorded beautifully by Kate O'Connell:
\n\nThe Lament for the Battle of Aughrim
\n\nThe Stone in the Field, The Steeplechase and The Coolfada
\n\nJimmy Giblin's, Throw It Across and The Humours of Tuama
\n\nJames is the recipient of the 2020 Irish Artist in America Achievement Award at the O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat.
\nhttps://oflahertyretreat.org/instructors_staff/james-keane/
To attend this year's virtual O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat go here:
\nhttps://oflahertyretreat.org/our-virtual-camp-plans/
James's Irish Music Therapy YouTube page is a collection of tunes and memories, and as you'll hear in our second part of this two part interview, played a major part in helping James recover from throat cancer. Check it out:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/IrishMusicTherapy
Thanks again to James and Theresa for an awesome chat.
\n\n--
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\n\nSo, for the price of a pint, or a half pint for that matter, you can help keep this show on the road and be safe in the knowledge you have a halo above your head.
\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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The legend. A photo of a photo, pictures within pictures. Father's shift work at Clondalkin paper mill and growing up in Drimnagh. Memories of those that are gone, embedded in the tunes, and bringing them back each time you play. Ceoltóirí Chualann, not letting on that you play the diddley-eye stuff and midnight gigs at the age of 11. 'That quiet part of the world' and the Dublin folk revival scene of the '50s and '60s. Thirteen gigs in the one night and remembering the McPeakes of Belfast.
\n\nJames is the recipient of the 2020 Irish Artist in America Achievement Award at the O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat.
\nhttps://oflahertyretreat.org/instructors_staff/james-keane/
To attend this year's virtual O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat go here:
\nhttps://oflahertyretreat.org/our-virtual-camp-plans/
James's Irish Music Therapy YouTube page is a collection of tunes and memories, and as you'll hear in our second part of this two part interview, played a major part in helping James recover from throat cancer. Check it out:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/IrishMusicTherapy
Thanks to Kate O'Connell for recording this chat and the tunes:
\n
\nThe Two-and-Sixpenny Girl, The New House and The Tar Road to Sligo
Levallagh
\n\nTom Ward's Downfall, Farewell to Erin (from the playing of Paddy O'Brien) and Dillon's Fancy
\n\nLament for the Battle of Aughrim (after the McPeake family) and Return from Fingal
\n\nLastly - in the intro we mention a documentary Dom produced for BBC Radio 4 on The Gay Byrne Radio Show.
\nWritten and presented by the great Fintan O'Toole, it's a great listen:
https://soundcloud.com/dominic-black/a-cup-of-tea-a-sticky-bun-and
\n\nJames and Theresa, thank you.
\n\n--
\n\nTo listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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'Philomena Begley on a tractor!' Tuesday night is music night, learning tunes before the oven timer goes off. To fleadh or not to fleadh; to lilt or not to lilt? The players of Mullaghoran, County Cavan and keeping open to as many influences as possible. The banjo, the mando and joys of teaching. An open hearted approach to music and the fun to be had from it. 'I could close my eyes in a gig and not have a care in the world.'
\n\nWe really hope you get as much enjoyment out of this as we did. It's bishbashbosh - great tunes and really great chat - thanks Karen (and Jeremy Saich on guitar).
\n\nSo - here's 'The Local - The Deise Sessions,' the CD Karen was chatting about. And it's awesome, you should totally check it out. Featuring Karen alongside Donnchadh Gough, Jeremy Saich and Brendan Clancy:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI8zgIX4GA8
\n\nKaren's online tuition course is here:
\n\nhttps://www.udemy.com/user/karen-dolan-2/
\n\nA few pics of Dylan and Santana at Slane Castle, 1984:
\nhttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=bob+dylan+slane+castle&atb=v137-1&iax=images&ia=images
And here's the Queen of Country herself, Philomena B:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgmeS-HcHB8
The tunes:
\n\nCaliope House and Fi's Frolics
\nThe Maids of Castlebar and Bunker Hill (Reels)
\nPadeen O'Rafferty
\nThe Gold Ring
\nand Killavil Reel
Karen - brilliant - thank you.
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\n\nDarren & Dom
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A Belgian neighbour in Nigeria and a first encounter with the recorder and whistle; traditional music in Thailand and a global musical imagination; Maria Carey, melismatic singing, Paddy Tunney and the Ulster song tradition; Irish music with Chris and Aidan and John, and meeting Matt Molloy. Holding on to a singer so they don't drift away. Composing, teaching and podcasting, constructing a living in music. And, you know, heart and soul stuff - like hope.
\n\nSo - as you'll know from the chat, Shannon's got a very generous amount of resources and content for players and non players alike. You can find it all through her website.
\n\nhttps://shannonheatonmusic.com/
\n\nShannon's podcast, Irish Music Stories, is here (it's great):
\nhttps://shannonheatonmusic.com/ims/
And if you're a social type you can follow Matt & Shannon Heaton's here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/MattandShannonHeaton
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/mattandshannonheaton/
And you can watch their YouTube channel here:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/c/ShannonHeatonMusic
The tunes:
\n\nThe Mountain Road and The Galway Rambler
\nThe Belle of the South Shore (written for Weird Old Aunt Jane)
\nWhere The Moorcocks Crow (from the singing of Paddy Tunney)
\nP. Joe Hayes Number 2, The Cottage in the Grove and The Mother and Child Reel (with Matt Heaton)
\nThe Irish Washerwoman
This was a lovely experience, recording this episode. Early in the Boston morning for Shannon, late in the Barwon Heads night for us.
\n\nThank you Shannon.
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A pause in pandemic times and what you hear when you hear Seamus Ennis; Phelim O'Reilly, Anton McGowan and doorway street sessions; holding onto infectious rhythms from youthful summers. Theoretical physics and musical headspace. 'What is it? What was it?' The irresistible core at the heart of a great session. Schrödinger's Irish tunes, the real music in the solo players and the liberation to be found in lilting. Getting things out of the way as you look for the joy in the music, and falling for the hardanger fiddle.
\n\nIn this episode Caoimhín plays:
\n\n04:55 - Shéamuis Mhic a Bháird
\n(which, drawing on TheSession.org, is also known as An Chéad Phunnann, Clare, The Clare, The First Sheaf, Jim Ward’s, Jimmy Ward J.G., Jimmy Ward’s Favourite, Jimmy Ward’s J.G., Port Shéamus Mhic A Bháird, Seamus’s, Tom Ward’s, Ward’s, Ward’s Favorite, Ward’s Favourite)
24.50 - Kitty Lie Over (from the playing of Seamus Ennis)
\n\n52.22 - The Lonesome Jig ('or an echo of it, anyway')
\n\n01:27:00 - Easter Snow (from the playing of Seamus Ennis)
\n\n01:43.25 - And two reels, Paddy Sean Nancy's (from the playing of Johnny Henry) and Sunny Banks.
\n\nYou can find Caoimhín's recorded work via his website:
\nhttps://caoimhinoraghallaigh.com/
And then there's these:
\nThe Gloaming
\nhttp://www.thegloaming.net/home
This Is How We Fly
\nhttp://thisishowwefly.net/
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett
\nhttps://www.caoimhinandthomas.com/
Laghdú: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman
\nhttps://irishmusic.bandcamp.com/album/laghd
Thanks Caoimhín.
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Welcome To Country; Ireland, history, emigration; who we are and where we belong. Finding culture, finding your self and finding the courage to take to the road. Away from suburban life and Tupperware. Gender disparity in Irish radio, Robert Kee and Fred Dibnah.
\n\nThis is such a lovely chat - what better way is there to spend an hour?
\nThanks Áine.
The best way to support Áine is through her Patreon page:
\nhttps://www.patreon.com/ainetyrrellmusic
Her latest single is 'We Call You Now' - watch it here:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVhzaPwbH4
And Áine has a gig (remember them?) coming up with the Bunyarra Culture Collective, at Brunswick Picture House, Brunswick Heads in NSW on Friday 21st at 7PM - details are here:
\nhttps://www.ainetyrrell.com/touring
The songs in this week's episode are:
\nIn This House
\nAs Clouds Collide
\nThe Rising of the Moon (Padraig Perase and Siobhan O'Higgins)
\nHope See Me Through
The Gender Disparity Report relating to Irish radio airplay is here, and it's kind of amazing:
\nhttps://www.canva.com/design/DAD_kmfQraE/LacXD6V8n_UGaOkS3r1Giw/view
And lastly, Áine on Facebook:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/AineTyrrellMusic
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Sunday morning sessions at The Coach and Horses, Finsbury Park; summer road trips to Ireland and back, via relatives' houses, Fleadhs, sessions and the Holyhead ferry; learning to play in Anne Caulfield's house in Luton; competing and adjudicating; becoming a teacher of music and recording your first album. All that AND Barings Bank. Nick Leeson how are ye!
\n\nYou can probably tell from the tape, this was a LOT of fun. Thanks Theresa.
\n\nTheresa's album, BANJO'ista, is a gem. Get it here, on her bandcamp page:
\nhttps://theresaogrady.bandcamp.com/releases
To follow Theresa or get in contact about lessons you can do so from here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/theresa.ogrady.31
You can also like and follow Theresa O’Grady Music here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/theresaogradymusic/
In this episode Theresa plays:
\n\nThe Milky Way (Vincent Broderick) - 06:53
\n\nThe Starry Lane to Monaghan (Ed Reavy) / Johnny Watt Henry's - 24:30
\n\nTwo jigs - Padeen O'Rafferty / The Fox's Tail (Donal McKeague) - 44:50
\n\nO'Dowd's and another one we don't have a name for - 01:01:12
\n\nSailor on the Rock / The Cavan Reel - 01:45:08
\n\nThe Kilavel Jig / By Golly (Jimmy Neary) - 02:02:50
\n\nTheresa plays a tenor guitar and a mandolin, both made by Jack Spira in Australia:
\nhttps://jackspiraguitars.com/index.html
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\n\nFor your good deed you will secure your place in traditional Irish music podcast heaven. But most importantly, you’ll have helped pay for the other 99% of listeners that don’t or can’t chip in.
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Teenage musicians, crackin the floor in a Drogheda pub and the Wednesday of the Fleadh; passing on the music; community and tunes in Hull, Leeds and the Coventry; the Holyhead night ferry; an English accent in border country, Crossmaglen sessions and the accordion as passport.
\n\nElaine plays these tunes:
\n\nTwo jigs - Kitty's Rambles (from Vincent Tighe) / Willie Coleman's
\nTwo hornpipes: The Western / The Galway
\nToss the Feathers / Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band
\nO'Carolan's Draught / Flagstone of Memories (Vincent Broderick)
\nApples in the Winter / Eddie Kelly's (from Hugie Gallagher)
You can connect with the South Armagh Traditional Arts Partnership here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/TraditionalArtsPartnership/
You can follow Elaine here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/elaine.osullivan.37
And you can also find loads of great videos from the Traditional Arts Partnership here. Including this one they put together for #RTÉVirtualFleadh
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=330638955010076
\n...
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\n\nAnd that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.
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It doesn't get better than this.
\n\n'A good reel would wipe the cobwebs off his heart.' Last Night's Fun and Joe Cooley, a -kick-you-in-the-chest-kind-of-accordion-player.' Looking for the ghosts of James Morrison and Michael Coleman on the streets of New York City. Translating the music of the fiddle into the language of the box. A grandmother's recordings a treasure trove for the aspiring Daithí Gormley and the chancey nature of recording in the studio.
\n\n'There's only one trick to becoming a great musician - you figure out what you're not able to do, and don't do it.' Finbarr Dwyer's advice to Daithí.
\n\nDaithí's album with Catherine McHugh is
\n‘Fiddling without a Bow – Irish Traditional Music on Button Accordion’
\nhttps://daithigormley.bandcamp.com/
And his book 'Fiddlers of Sligo Tunebook' compiled with Oisin Mac Diarmada, is available here:
\nhttps://custysmusic.com/search?q=Daith%C3%AD+gormley&type=product
The tunes Daithí plays:
\n\nLast Night's Fun
\nThe Templehouse Reel and an unnamed reel, from the playing of Michael Joe and Larry MacDonagh
\nThe Spike Island Lasses and Farewell to Leitrim
\nTell Her I Am and Tatter Jack Walsh
\nMy Love is Fair and Handsome followed by The Maid of Mount Cisco (composed by Paddy Killoran)
And finally - it's hard to do justice to Ciaran Carson's last collection of poems, which we mention during the chat,
\n'Still Life.' It's shot through with sorrow and love, and a savouring of the last of life.
\nhttps://www.gallerypress.com/product/still-life/
Ciaran Carson also wrote what many regard as the best book on Irish music yet written, 'Last Night's Fun.' Which happens to be the name of the tune with which Daithí began todays episode, talking about the legendary Joe Cooley. Thank you, Daithí.
\n\n--
\n\nIf you'd like to check it out, this is Craig Ferguson's 2010 monologue on Brittney Spears and addiction that Darren mentions. It's powerful, and worth the watch:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=7ZVWIELHQQY&feature=emb_logo
To see some of the Irish Music Legends work go here:
\ninstagram.com/irishmusiclegends/
\nfacebook.com/irishmusiclegends
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Discovering the uilleann pipes on a road trip to Donegal; oils on metal; generative art and music; not settling in Northern Ireland; MIDI pipes and the Cardiff scene; restoration and the mysterious conversations which only pipers understand.
\n\nThoughtful and engaging stuff.
\n\nIn this episode Jason plays:
\n\nThe Rocks of Bawn followed by Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from The Fair
\nTwo reels, one of which is Scotch Mary
\nAn unnamed tune and...
\nWhen The Cock Crows It Is Day
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\n\nCheck out Jason's various work here:
\nhttp://www.jasonrouse.co.uk/
And his Instagram feed here:
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/sionrouse/
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\n\nCheers and gesundheit.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Taking on the old tunes. Records on the wall. The art and laughter of Michael Grinter. The Teetotallers, that Gort Tape and the Irish music scene in 80s Birmingham. Living in America. The birth of Lúnasa. And the rise and rise of TV snooker and Irish music. Gold.
\n\nThe incredibly talented and generous Kevin Crawford joins us for a mammoth chat down the line from Brooklyn, New York. Honestly the man is as good a storyteller as he is a player. You're in for a treat with this one.
\n\nTo listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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\n\nDuring the episode Kevin plays:
\n\nOld John's / The Longford Tinker
\nCity of Savannah / James Hanley's
\nDear Irish Boy / The Hole In The Boat / Sally Sloane’s
\nDan Collins / The Caravan
\nHula Hoop / Mary Bergin's Gan Ainm
To buy Kevin's music go here:
\nhttps://www.lunasa.ie/music
\nhttp://compassrecords.com/artist/kevin-crawford/
To follow Kevin Crawford on socials go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/kevin.crawford.106
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/lowwhistle17/
To follow Lúnasa go here:
\nhttps://www.lunasa.ie/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/lunasaband/
Right so, that's it for another week. Kevin thank you so much for all your time and effort.
\n\nTill next time, good luck.
\n\nDarren & Dom
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Competing in your first Fleadh, hearing the ocean in the music and searching out the rarest old tunes. Learning from older players, driving to sessions with your dad and a road trip to a Belfast terraced house in search of a fiddle.
\n\nIn this episode Aifric plays:
\nThe Golden Castle / Mickey Callaghan's Fancy
\nRolling in the Ryegrass and Woman of the House (Thanks Jond from the session.org for your help with the names)
\nO'Donnell's Lament
\nThe Battle of Aughrim
\nFitzgerald's / An Paistin Fionn (The Fair Haired Child)
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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'The artist is like a blind caterpillar at the end of a leaf reaching out into the darkness.' Staring The Reaper Down. Life in music, Shoogelnifty and Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh. All night sessions in Borneo, Pretty Peggy-O and teaching Andy Irvine bouzouki parts to an audience including...er...Andy Irvine.
\n\nIn this episode Luke plays:
\n\nThe Log Cabin and Bean A' Ti Ar Lar
\nPretty Peggy-O
\nThe Battle of the Somme (Retreat March)
\nThe Cornerhouse, The Lady's Pantalettes and The Bird in the Bush
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
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Or alternatively, simply search your favourite podcast app for the Blarney Pilgrims.
\n\nTo follow Luke go here:
\nhttps://www.lukeplumb.com/
\nhttp://shoogle.com/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/luke.plumb.18
To buy his incredible music go here: https://lukeplumbmusic1.bandcamp.com/
\n\nThanks for tuning in and we'll see you next week.
\n\nAll the best,
\n\nDarren and Dom
\n\n--
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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The real deal. Part one of two. Incredible playing and great chat: the painters of ancient Egypt and the joy of playing in an orchestra; De Danaan, Planxty and Schubert; Martin Carthy and Nic Jones and the thrum of existential rhythm.
\n\nTruth be told, we don't have much to add to this show - it'll all in the tape. Next week: Shooglenifty and living in Scotland, the moments in a gig that a musician lives for, coming home to Australia and recording an album with Andy Irvine.
\n\nIn this episode Luke plays:
\nThree jigs (un-named)
\nThree reels: McGreevey's, The Sweetheart and Miss McGuiness
\nand
\nWrackabello (from the playing of Martin Carthy)
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm
\niTunes: https://apple.co/2A6tUPm
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3eIwBFy
Or alternatively, simply search your favourite podcast app for the Blarney Pilgrims.
\n\nThanks for tuning in and we'll see you next week.
\n\nAll the best,
\n\nDarren and Dom
\n\n--
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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Special Guest: Luke Plumb.
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\n\nAgain, this interview was a long time coming. We had actually planned to record it the week Covid hit so we pulled the plug. Now fast forward 12 weeks and we finally got to sit down, face-to-face, with Máirtín, and believe us, it was worth the wait.
\n\nIn this episode Máirtín plays:
\n\nThe Lobster (An Gliomach)
\nTripping Up The Stairs
\nAnach cuain (Slow-air dedicated to Ben Duffy)
\nMcKenna Polkas
\nLong Slender Sally / The Gosson That Bate His Father
To listen, stream or download simply click a link below:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/54
\niTunes: https://apple.co/32gvHuH
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3aFuOPa
Or alternatively, simply search your favourite podcast app for the Blarney Pilgrims.
\n\nRight so, that's it for another week. Thanks again Máirtín for the chat and the tunes. And thanks to Maggie Carty for the accompanying banjo and biscuits.
\n\nBye bye,
\n\nDarren and Dom
\n\n--
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nwww.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.facebook.com/blarneypilgrimspodcast
\nwww.instagram.com/blarneypilgrimspodcast
\nwww.twitter.com/BlarneyPodcast
Special Guest: Máirtín Staunton.
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\n\nDon Meade on Irish tunes on the harmonica, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Eddie Clark, New York's Irish music scene in the '80s, and The Catskills Irish Arts Week.
\n\nSeriously amazing music this week with Don.
\n\nAs always you can listen or download from the usual spots:
\nOur site: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/53
\niTunes: https://apple.co/2MI9ZJf
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3aFuOPa
Don plays the following tunes:
\n\nThe Haunted House and The Lark on The Strand (Jigs)
\nThe Green Mountain and Rip The Calico (Reels)
\nThe Fiddler's Elbow (Meade)
\nBrosna Slides
\nThe Waterford Hornpipe
To follow Don go here: facebook.com/don.meade.73
\nTo learn more about the Barney Star and read the articles mentioned in the episode go here: http://www.blarneystar.com/
Love,
\n\nDarren and Dom
\n\n--
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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Accordion tunes in the 90 degree heat. On the '80s Cowboys and Irish music in Dallas, Texas. On De Danaan kicking up a dust storm; the Charlie Piggott route to falling in love with the banjo and struggles in learning to play. The O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat and the sweetness of playing music with your kids.
\n\nKen Fleming's such an easy going guy, but when you hear his story you'll realize he's driven. I mean, you can't get an Irish music festival up and running in Texas without some amazing combination of vision, commitment and a willingness to take a punt. It's probably not an exaggeration to say that without Ken's work over the past forty years, the Irish music scene there would be a shadow of what it's now become (thriving).
\n\nSo - here's The North Texas Irish Festival, of which Ken was a key founder:
\nhttps://ntif.org/
And you can find The O'Flaherty Irish Music retreat here:
\nhttps://oflahertyretreat.org/
Check out their list of past guest musicians and you'll get an idea of the calibre of the weekend:
\nhttps://oflahertyretreat.org/instructor_role/core-classes/
Thank you, Ken, for hacking through the long distance digital thickets with us to get this episode up and out. And thanks for your tunes and your chat.
\n\nAs always the episode is free to stream or download from all the usual spots:
\nOur Website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/52
\niTunes: https://apple.co/2XsbLo0
\nGoogle Podcast: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3aFuOPa
So - this is our 52nd episode. We launched last year at the National Celtic Festival and it was awesome. Thanks to Una McAlinden for that amazing kick start to the project. We got to hang out with...
\n\nMary MacNamara and Eileen O'Brien
\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/4
\nMaggie Carty
\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/5
\nBeth McCracken
\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/8
\nAustral
\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/7
\nand
\nBush Gothic
\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/10
Not bad for a first weekend...
\n\nNow, Covid-19 notwithstanding, The Celtic Festival will be hosting a series of events online this year to mark the moment and take a breath before we start the journey towards next year's festival. Look for them here:
\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/nationalcelticfestival
\n\nAnd finally, thanks to you all for supporting us to get this far. Keep it up and hopefully we'll have another year's worth of great chat and tunes by this time next year.
\n\nLove,
\n\nDarren and Dom
\n\n--
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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On growing up with traditional Irish music, on taking ownership, on finding festivals, on 92.7 Fresh Fm, on Austral and creating a dance party, and losing yourself at Woodford Folk Festival .
\n\nWay, way back in June last year we caught up with Austral during the National Celtic Festival. During that interview we said we'd love to sit down and chat with Caity Brennan. Well, 12 months and one global pandemic later, we've finally done it and it's everything we'd hoped it would be.
\n\nIn this episode Caity plays:
\nRoll Out The Barrel / Christmas Eve / Castle Kelly
\nThe Orphan / Princess Nancy
\nDr. Gilbert's / Siobhan O'Donnell's
\nThe Sheiling Song
\nOriginal composition followed by two reels.
During our chat we drop a few names and many of those have also appeared on the Blarney Pilgrims. To make life a little easier we thought we'd list them here for your clicking pleasure.
\n\nCaity's Dad, Jack Brennan (Uilleann pipes, whistle): https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/31
\nCaity's partner, Angus Barbary (Fiddle): https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/16
\nCaity's band Austral: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/7
Also, as mentioned in the episode, Austral just reached their pozible target which means there'll be an album coming sometime down the road - Watch this space! In the meantime here's a cracking video clip of the band recorded from last year's Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3Ztlftarg
\n\nIf the playing during the episode doesn't convince you that Caity and Austral can bring the (MF) ruckus, then check out this instagram clip of them at the Melbourne Vic Night Markets earlier this year. https://instagram.com/p/B5reS3Egvet/
\n\nTo keep up with Caity and Austral you can follow them here:
\n\nWebsite: https://www.australband.com/
\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/australmusic/
\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/austral.music/
And most importantly, you can buy Austral's music here (including a craicin' live version of Hoedown Throwdown lifted from the episode we recorded last year: https://australtradmusic.bandcamp.com/
\n\nI think that's about it for this week,
\n\nRight, go on. Goodluck!
\nDarren & Dom
...
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On accordions, melodeons, the push draw and The Pure Drop; Portrush sessions at the Harbour Bar, Ballycastle sessions at The House of McDonnell. The snug. Athlone. The borderlands of Fermanagh, Coleraine and Ceili House. And Coronation Street even gets a mention. As in - and I'm paraphrasing - 'Now and again something might have been taped over with an episode of Coronation Street.'
\n\nCiaran's archive, which he shares on a daily basis, is astonishing. A seemingly endless treasure trove of clips featuring startling hair from the 1980s, large spectacles, fancy shirts and amazing players. Here's a typical example. Give it a whirl - but don't expect to get any work done. This is the original internet rabbit hole:
\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/100010917466155/videos/1092797731094132
\n\nCiaran, thanks again for a really thoughtful conversation, and a great set of tunes:
\n\nThe Four Courts and Paddy Taylor
\nPolkas
\nSport Jig (Peadar O'Riada)
\nThe Bucks of Oranmore
\nThe Showman's Fancy and The Galway Hornpipe.
To follow Ciaran on Facebook go here:https://www.facebook.com/ciarank1
\nTo follow Ciaran on Instagram go here: https://www.instagram.com/ciaranckp/
\nOr look for @ciaranckp
Darren mentions 'Disintegration Loops' by William Basinski. Completely hypnotic:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI
\n\nThis episode is our 50th - and like the 49 before it, it's free to download or stream from everywhere you get podcasts:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/50
\nApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/36t2q2d
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2TrpEQL
We'd also like to say a huge thank you to today's episode sponsor, Ceol.fm. This is a bloody brilliant service. So do yourself a favour and head over there and check it out.
\n\n\n\nUntil next week,
\n\nDarren & Dom
\n\n...
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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'When you're playing with other people...and you get that feeling that is above and beyond life, in a sense. Where you just go, this is why I exist. This is as happy as this bunch of cells can be, right now, on this planet.'
\n\nIf there’s a better way to spend an hour and a bit of your day than listening to this week's episode with Ewen Baker, I’ve not heard of it.
\n\nEwen’s a fiddle player, arranger, multi instrumentalist and teacher, and he takes us on a journey to find the music-induced tingly feeling, via The Oils, J. S. Bach and Kerry Slides; St Anne’s Reel and The Bushwhackers; collaboration and individualism; coming to terms with our own imperfections but still getting stuff done. And we don’t even get around to talking about working with songwriters, at which Ewen’s an acknowledged master. Still, it gives us an excuse to do a second episode down the line.
\n\nIn this episode Ewen plays the following tunes:
\n\nMerrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife
\nBrian Boru's March
\nSt Anne’s Reel
\nSheehan's Reel
\nThe Australian Waters
\nMama's Reel
Ewen’s collaborated with a huge range of musicians over the course of his career, but it was only a couple of years ago that he released his first CD, ‘The Inch Before The Saw.’ As in, the only thing in life you really need to be worrying about is…’the inch before the saw.’ You can find the CD here, and as we say in the episode, it’s a cracker:
\n\nhttps://ewenbaker.com.au/store
\n\n'It's a session in your speakers.' Ewen’s collaboration with Paddy Fitzgerald, Jack Brennan and Geoff McArthur is called Lisnacrieve, and you can find the gofundme page here:
\n\nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/paddy-fitzgerald-cd
\n\nAs always, the episode is free to download or stream from everywhere you get podcasts:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/49
\nApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3fM61MG
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2T1il26
We'd also like to say a huge thank you to today's episode sponsor, Ceol.fm. This is a bloody brilliant service. So do yourself a favour and head over there and check it out. www.ceol.fm
\n\nEwen, thanks for a cracking chat.
\nAnd with that, we’re away.
Darren & Dom
\n\n...
\n\nWe know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us. If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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On ABC song books, on the south-western coast of Victoria, on Scottish cèilidhs, on the highland pipes, on learning and teaching and on the understanding of air.
\n\nThis interview has been a long time coming and it was everything we hoped it would be. Thanks so much for your time, your patience and your beautiful tunes Merran.
\n\nIf you'd like to contact Merran about lessons or having a tune down Warrnambool way then please follow her here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/merran.moir
In this episode Merran plays:
\nSound of the Sun / Vivian's Jig
\nThe Family Set - Kyle's Waltz / Margaret McLachlan / New Year in Noosa
\n Devil in the Kitchen / The Fairy Dance / Humours of Tulla
\n Unnamed Air (Merran's original composition)
\nThe Longford Collector / Castle Kelly / name missing
As always the episode is free to download or stream from everywhere you get podcasts:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/48
\nApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/35CprPF
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3caCZnT
We'd also like to say a huge thank you to today's episode sponsor, Ceol.fm. This is a bloody brilliant service. So do yourself a favour and head over there and check it out. www.ceol.fm
\n\nRight that's it, see you next week.
\n\nEnjoy!
\n\nDarren & Dom
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There's a single story or a thousand stories in this week's episode. The story of Mick Doherty, Donegal fiddle player of the famed Doherty family of tinsmiths, travelers and musicians. The story of his father's music, and of his grandfather's music. And woven in and around it all the figure of Johnny Doherty - Mick's uncle - one of the iconic Irish fiddle players, a tinsmith himself, and traveling man.
\nJohnny was the subject of a documentary in 1972, a film called Fiddler on the Road. Produced by Ulster Television, it's a fascinating document of a moment in his life and, like all the best documentaries, it shifts a little each time you watch it. In fact, if you watch really closely, you'll notice how with the passing of time the film itself has assumed a strange, elastic quality. So the background behind Johnny as he plays seems to sway in places and elongate and contract, as if it's about to come loose from its moorings. Listen to Mick speaking of his uncle Johnny, and that effect is amplified.
Fiddler On The Road:
\nhttps://bit.ly/3bMLQfx
Mick Doherty recorded his one and only CD in partnership with his student and friend Rob Zielinski, of Perth, Western Australia. Mick lived in WA until his death in 2014, and we have Rob to thank for the tunes preserved on that CD, the echoes of Mick's father and grandfather in the playing, and for the recordings that make up today's episode.
\n\nIn collaboration with Rob, in 2009 Kevin Bradley at the National Museum in Canberra recorded five separate sessions in conversation with Mick, sessions covering his life story, family history and musical lineage. It's thanks to them we have this treasure to share with you today. Truth be told, Mick's speaking voice is a long, unspooling melody itself, with a cadence and rhythm that carry within them the man as he was in 2009 and the lives he had lived up to that point.
\n\nWe've re-arranged some segments of the original archive recordings so they play sequentially in this episode. And we feel it's true to the spirit of Mick's story, his voice and his playing. If you'd like to dive into the entire series of recordings, go here:
\nhttps://bit.ly/3bZ1dBi
And please check out Mick Doherty's CD recorded with Rob Zielinski. It's essential listening really:
\nhttps://www.robertzielinskimusic.com/shop
And as we mention during the show, our heartfelt thanks to Kevin Bradley and Rob Zielinski for all their help with this episode.
\n\nWe hope you're all keeping well, and we'll see you next week.
\n\nDarren and Dom
\n\n...
\n\nWell, we know it's a tough time so we hope you can hang in there with us, and we'll do the same for you. So if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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On the Swannanoa Gathering with Finn Magill, on ethnomusicology, on the difference between Irish and Celtic, on her time in Cork and finding lock-down inspiration in Quarantunes.
\n\nHailing from North Carolina and now residing in North Michigan, Hannah Harris is a wonderful fiddle player and ethnomusicologist. Hannah recently recorded her first album which hopefully will be released in the coming weeks.
\n\nIn this episode Hannah plays:
\n\nAlice's Reel / Maudabawn Chapel
\nCiti na gCumman
\nThe Blarney Castle Hotel Set (If someone knows the names please send them in thanks)
\nJohn Brosnan's Reel / Martin Wynne's No 2
\nSunday's Well
To keep up to date and follow Hannah go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/hannahharrisceol
To follow Hannah on Instragram go here:
\nhttps://www.instagram.com/hannahharrisceol/
As always the episode is free to download or stream from our website or any podcast app:
\n\nOur website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/46
\nApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2KlfSuH
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nStitcher: https://bit.ly/2XVl68c
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2KoNQhL
Right that's it, enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nWell, it's a tough time, so we hope you can hang in there with us, and we'll do the same for you. So if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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On the creation of Ceol FM, on equal access; on finding the pipes, on creating community and space for upcoming players, and on seeing a need and acting on it.
\n\nDarragh Ó Héiligh is a phenomenal uilleann pipe player from Drogheda. He has tirelessly worked to grow and share Irish music, not only within his town with Music At the Gate, but also nationally and internationally with his innovative digital radio station Ceol FM.
\n\nAs you'll hear in the episode Darragh is a great man for playing the tunes but the names escape him. So with that said, a huge thank you to Paddy Cummins for sending us the names of these via our website.
\n\nIn this episode Darragh plays:
\n\nOrmond Sound / The Merry Blacksmith - the first tune was composed by Tipperary's Paddy O'Brien and the second is traditional.
\n\nThe Rambling Pitchfork / O'Sullivan's March - two traditional tunes.
\n\nChief O'Neill's Favourite / Kenmare Bay - the first is traditional and the second was composed by John Dwyer of Co. Cork.
\n\nAn t-athair Jack Walsh / Speed the Plough / The Coalminer - all of these are traditional tunes. There is another reel also called Speed the Plough and is not related to this one. This one is often called Cronin's too.
\n\nTo follow Darragh go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DarraghPipes/
Visit his website go here:
\nhttps://www.darraghpipes.ie/
To keep up to date with Music At The Gate go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/MusicAtTheGateDrogheda/
And to get lost in the wonderful world of Ceol.fm go here:
\nwww.ceol.fm
Right that's it, enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nWell, it's a tough time, so we hope you can hang in there with us, and we'll do the same for you. So if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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Cameron Mather's a Sydney based banjo player and singer. He joined us down the line to talk about the strange, difficult moment we're all facing. About isolation and its challenges; his love of Irish music; hardcore training to compete in the Fleadh; the Sydney session scene and the beauty of being a teacher.
\n\nIn this episode Cameron plays:
\nFredd Finn's / Brady's (Brady's from the playing of John Williams)
\nPeach Blossoms (Barn Dance)
\nThe First Pint / The Flying Wheelchair (two jigs, from the playing of Kevin Crawford)
\nFergal O’Gara’s / The Bag of Spuds / The Boys of ‘45
To follow Cameron on Facebook go here: https://www.facebook.com/tenorbanjocam
\nTo follow Cameron's Sydney Irish music group go here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/435901279930266/
\nAnd to follow the Gaelic Club go here: https://www.facebook.com/gaelicclubsydney/
As always, the episode is free to listen and download online or from all podcast apps:
\n\nOur Website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/44
\nApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2VdCZMu
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3aTHAKH
Right that's it, enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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\n\nWell, it's a tough time, so we hope you can hang in there with us, and we'll do the same for you. So if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge at any level over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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Jeremy Keith is the founder and keeper of thesession.org, probably the greatest irish music resource in the world. And this episode hopefully has something of the generous essence of that archive. We flow, from The North as a different planet to Galway as the centre of the '90s slacker world. From the one-tune-a-week origin of thesession.org and managing an online community to the richness and value of constancy. AND we have the first ever Blarney Pilgrims mention of Scullion. (What took us so long?) Beautiful.
\n\nJeremy plays the following tunes:
\nJunior Crehan's (Jig)
\nThe Pipe on the Hob
\nThe Boys of Malin
\nKitty Lie Over / Munster Buttermilk
Jeremy's brilliant, build-your-own-podcast thingy is here: https://huffduffer.com/
\n\nJeremy's website, where you'll find a load of interesting, diverse, thought-provoking treats: https://adactio.com/
\n\nAnd of course, everyone should also visit The Session at www.thesession.org if you haven't already.
\n\nDownload and listen from the usual spots:
\nWebsite: https://bit.ly/3aMtKtD
\nApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2X0MiCg
\nGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3cPTkis
\nSpotify: https://spoti.fi/343WZFA
Right that's it, enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
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An unexpected journey in the company of Darren, Dom, Dom's Uncle Leo, Sean Matthews and the bean an tí in Carberry's, Drogheda.
\n\nWith the world full of strangeness at the minute, it seems apt that we'd find ourselves chatting about all sorts of unexpected things in this week's episode: unaccompanied singing as Mount Kilimanjaro; the people who gave us our first taste of Irish music; searching for your own voice; Take The Floor, Bowie, Aztec Camera and The Raggle Taggle Gypsy. Sneaking the remote control away from your dozing dad. And probably the greatest heckle ever, from an Oban bar on New Years Night circa 1997.
\n\nAs we mention in the second intro after our first intro to this episode, we welcome any suggestions for cool ways to keep talking to musicians over the next few months. So please drop us a line via Facebook or Patreon and we'll get right back to you. And as always, thanks to everybody for continuing to listen.
\n\nKeep in touch, and watch yourselves,
\n\nDarren and Dom
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\n\nEmma plays the following tunes:
\nEast Clare Reel / Martin Wynne's Number 4 / The Liffey Banks
\nDwyer's Jig / O'Sullivan's March / untitled jig
\nThe Old Wooden Bridge / The Road to Ballymote / The Mayo Lasses
\nThe Drunken Tinker / Tie The Bonnet / O'Donnell's Sligo Maid (or The Glendowan Fancy)
Thanks Emma, for a great afternoon's chat and playing.
\n...
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\n@BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Today's episode is, in part, the story of Rob's friendship with the Donegal fiddle player, Mick Doherty. It's the story of Rob's quest to both learn the music and preserve something of Mick's playing for posterity. It's about playing with sweetness and 'thundering out the tunes.' About accidental discoveries and epiphanies. And it's about learning and teaching with generosity in your heart.
\n\nIt's a beautiful story from Perth to Donegal and back again.
\n\nIn this episode Rob plays:
\n\nBlack Mare of Fannett / The Yellow Heifer
\nMickey Mor's March / Corn Rigs
\nBrays of Mass / Untitled Mick Doherty Tune
\nBush On The Hill / Jackson's Morning
As mentioned in the interview, Kevin Bradley of The National Library of Australia recorded over 5 hours of interviews with Mick Doherty back in 2008. You can listen to the 5 interviews in full here: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-211708617/listen
\n\nYou can buy Mick and Rob's album "Out West" here: https://www.robertzielinskimusic.com/shop
\n\nAlso thank you to Boxwood Australia 2020 for bringing Rob's to Victoria. You can find out more about Boxwood Australia here: www.boxwood.org. Boxwood Australia was made possible with support from Culture Ireland, promoting Irish arts worldwide.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
\n...
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On Growing up in Birmingham, on the Sligo-Roscommon style, on slowing down Seamus Tansey records, on the Birmingham Ceili Band and Táin Ceili Band, on Peig McGrath, on women in traditional Irish music, on piano accompaniment and on Michael Grinter and Rudall and Rose flutes.
\n\nIn this episode Catherine plays:
\n\nEast of Glendart / The Green Fields of Woodford
\nThe Boys Of The Lough / The Devils of Dublin
\nGrace's Hornpipe (Original)
\nThe Lad from Mt Kisco / Dominic's Farewell to Cashel
\nBánchnoic Éireann Ó
Thanks you so much Catherine for your time and your tunes.
\n\nTo follow Catherine go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/catherine.mcevoy.376
To buy Catherine's CDs go here:
\nhttps://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/CatherineMcEvoy
Also thank you to Boxwood Australia 2020 for bringing Catherine to Australia. You can find out more about Boxwood Australia here: www.boxwood.org. Boxwood Australia was made possible with support from Culture Ireland, promoting Irish arts worldwide.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
\n...
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The great Joe Fitzgerald, of east Clare and Melbourne. On first hearing his mother play the melodeon. On drovers, the bush, and working with his father. On lost players: Mick Minogue, Mrs Brady, Mrs Purcell and Frank MacNamara. Growing old and the curative power of music and song. 'Strange thing I have...I was born in Galway. I was raised in Clare. We lived just inside the parish of Ogonnellow, but I went to school in the parish of Bodyke and played my hurling there...and I have Ireland and Australia. So I have two of everything, and I love them all.'
\n\nJoe plays two reels to start:
\nThe Stone of Destiny and The Trip to Cullenstown.
\nThen, Miss McLeod's Reel, the first tune he heard his mother play.
\nThen, The Foxhunter's Reel.
\nHe sings 'Andy's Gone With Cattle' and finishes with a slow air which we don't have the name of.
You can hear Paddy, Joe's brother, talk about their childhood and the role of music in their household here, in Episode 14:
\n\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/14
\n\nAnd Eileen O'Brien and Mary MacNamara's full episode here:
\n\nhttps://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/4
\n\nBeautiful stuff. Thanks to Joe, and to Chris and Bryony Fitzgerald and the staff at The Last Jar in Melbourne.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
\n...
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The Mountains of Pomeroy with Eileen O'Brien at 4 in the morning, the session as a conversation, finding your own style, Junji Shirota, Japanese folk songs and Good Times in O'Hara's
\n\nIn this episode Hajime and Kaoru play:
\n\nThe Mountains of Pomeroy
\nO'Carolins Dream
\nRolling In The Ryegrass / Dairy Maid / Heather breeze
\nSlieve Russell / Munster Jig
\nBonny Blue Eyed Nancy / untitled
\n(Untitled set to end)
To keep up to date with Hajime go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/hajime.takahashi.108
\nhttps://twitter.com/hajimeruhajime?lang=en
To keep up to date with Kaoru go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/kaoru.sumitomo
To find out what's happening at Seamus O'Hara go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/seamus.ohara.irishpub/
Thanks so much for your time and tunes Hajime and Kaoru.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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Floating Tionóls, learning traditional Irish music, temperamental reeds, South American Shaman, growing up in Manchester, the importance of learning on a good instrument and carrying on a cultural tradition.
\n\nIn this episode Sean plays:
\n\nThe May Morning Dew / Humours of Ballyloughlin
\nThe Blackbird / Colonel Fraser
\nStatia Donnelly
\nThe Maid of Mt Cisco
As mentioned, Sean has shared many great docos and links with us over the last few months. You'll find the ones mentioned in this episode here:
\n\nCOPPERS AND BRASS: The Piping Tradition of Irish Travellers: https://vimeo.com/131638804
\n\nTG4 - Na Píobairí Uilleann: https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories/top-documentaries/play/?pid=6070299965001
\n\nTunearch: https://tunearch.org/
\n(Sorry we got the name wrong in the episode intro)
Thanks so much for your time and tunes Sean.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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Concertina player Cathy Custy on quietly slipping into a session after not playing in public for many years. On gently making a space for music in her life again. On growing up, leaving Ireland and making a home elsewhere. On the challenges of teaching adults to play simple tunes well, and how a teacloth covering the sandwiches in a cafe in Palmerston North nearly changed her life.
\n\nFrom Dominic: Cathy and me sat in a darkening room in the Melbourne twilight as we recorded this chat, after a long, sunny summer's day. I don't know if anything of that atmosphere comes through on the audio, but afterwards we both went down to the pub and had a drink and were kind of knackered, but in a good way. Like we'd been for a long, long walk. I hope you enjoy it.
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\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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Finding a set of Uileann Pipes in Yackandandah, VIC; getting your eyes gouged and goolies grabbed in the south of France; winning at the Fleadh when you're eleven; lilting, teaching your children to play at a young age. And getting to know and love Australia.
\n\nA beautiful, thoughtful conversation with the incomparable Jody Moran. Recorded at the Koroit School of Celtic Music and Dance.
\n\nJody plays these tunes:
\n\nSliabh Galgua (Air)
\n\nTwo reels: The Little Beggarman and The Pigeon on the Gate
\n\nTabhair Dom Do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand)
\n\nEleanor Plunkett
\n\nThe Road to Lisdoonvarna and The Gatehouse Maid
\n\nAnd finally...
\n\nThe Hip-Op Jig
\n\nJody - thanks again for taking the time out from your weekend to share your tunes and stories with us.
\n\nAnd if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
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\n\nwww.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nwww.facebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
So - when it comes to this episode, we're nearly lost for words. It's engrossing. A deep dive into a sea teeming with life.
\n\nClare born fiddle player Tola Custy talks about how Irish music nearly died and how his father and others of his generation saved it. About out of tune whistling, the woman who bossed the Tulla Céilí Band and Radical Comhaltas. Growing up in a house divided - Kevin Burke fans on one side, Frankie Gavin fans on the other. He talks about Asturian fiddle playing and Irish fiddle playing; the James Goodman manuscript collection; the Time (Ireland) Act of 1916. He talks about stage fright and feeding off the energy of other musicians, the different beauty of Micho Russell's playing. He talks about the waltz time in his head, and much else besides.
\n\nAnd he plays the folllowing pieces:
\n\nThe Lighthouse and The Mermaid (his own tune) into a Swedish jig followed by a Breton jig
\n\nSo Small The Boat, So Big The Sea (Tola Custy)
\n\nTime Zone Laneway (Tola Custy) into The Maple Leaf (a reel composed by Darach De Brun for his wedding in 1976)
\n\nThe Yellow Wattle, which Tola learned from the playing of Micho Russell, into Metro-Gnome (his own composition)
\n\nand finally
\n\nLove At The Ending.
\n\nFollowing the last solo piece, Tola plays a set of tunes with Ado Barker, and they're then joined by Corinn Strating on flute. Recorded at The Last Jar in Melbourne as part of the first of three bush fire relief fundraisers. All proceeds from this episode of The Blarney Pilgrims will go to the same cause.
\n\nYou can contribute by going to The Last Jar's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Last-Jar-393321014068167/
\n\nYou'll also find details there about the next fundraiser coming up on Saturday 1st February.
\n
\nThanks to everyone at the pub, and to Joe Ferguson for his help with the sound.
And Tola, thanks for a stoater of a chat.
\n\n--
\n\nAnd if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
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Lunasa disturb the sleeping Geoff McArthur, Martin Hayes bewitches him, and hey presto - Geoff falls in love with Irish music. We also talk songwriting, teaching and mentoring young musicians at the Lake School of Celtic Music, Song and Dance in Koroit. And he sings a song and makes us cry. Can't ask for more than that.
\n\nIn this episode Geoff plays:
\nIf There Weren't Any Women In The World (barn dance)
\nThe Peacock's Feather (hornpipe)
\nSparkle and Shine (song)
\nThe Wise Maid (reel)
\nFree Trade Hill (song)
\nThe Cornerhouse (reel)
The Go Fund Me for the Lisnacrieve album Geoff mentioned is here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/paddy-fitzgerald-cd?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR3_IF4aXtdmafQl1gVnev-ejkuidBHxwjbOCbdsfhPtQZIJEVopX-a6rzo
\n\nIf you'd like to follow Lisnacrieve you'll find them here: https://www.facebook.com/lisnacrieve/
\n\nFinally, if you'd like to follow Geoff's other bands and projects you'll find them here:
\nwww.facebook.com/TequilaMockingbirds/
\nwww.facebook.com/The-Hardies-Hillbillies-638165059958085/
Enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nAs we mentioned, The Last Jar fundraiser for the CFA will happen on Saturday the 18th at 5pm. Details here:
\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2532117996913986/
\n\nAnd if you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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\n@BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Recorded at the Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance in Koroit, Victoria, Jack Brennan of Adelaide talks to us about finding the pipes, The French Resistance, catching serial killers, Leo Rowsome, Coppers and Brass and loving your instrument.
\n\nIn this episode Jack plays:
\n\nGarrett Barry's Jig
\nThe Blackbird
\nMrs McLeod's Reel
\nSí Beag, Sí Mór
\nCape Clear
Throughout the chat, Jack also mentions Na Píobairí Uilleann (NPU) and if you'd like to find out more about them you can find them here: https://pipers.ie/
\n\nIf you'd like to know more about Jacks beautiful handmade pipes then check out his website https://www.jackspipes.com/
\n\nIf you'd like to follow Jack on Facebook you'll find him here: https://www.facebook.com/jack.brennan.7528
\n\nThanks again to Jack for your time and tunes.
\n\nAnd thanks to Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance for allowing us to record at your wonderful event. We can't wait for next year.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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Part two of our "best of" episode featuring nothing but tunes and songs of 2019.
\n\nAs the year closes out, we'd like to thank all our guests for their time and tunes. Without you, none of this would be possible.
\n\nThe tunes and songs in this episode are:
\n\n02.08 - As The Crow Flies - Liz Carroll
\n05:35 - Donal Og - Kate Burke
\n10.05 - (Too Big For Ya) Boots - Michelle Doyle and Mickey O'Donnell
\n15.00 - The Town Of Uranquinty - Tony O'Rourke
\n17.18 - Untitled Jigs - Davydd McDonald and Kit Joyce
\n20.38 - The Musical Priest - Angus Barbary
\n21.43 - Mullingar Races - David Game
\n23.04 - The Home Ruler / Kitty's Wedding - Tony O'Rourke
\n26.15 - Untitled Jigs - Ciaran O'Grady and Kate Burke
\n28.41 - The January Man - Mark Willson
\n32.07 - The Golden Keyboard - Ado Barker
\n33.34 - The Donegal Lass / The Black Frog / The Sanctuary - Tony McTigue
\n38.04 - Untitled Reels - Davydd McDonald and Kit Joyce
\n40.02 - Untitled - Ciaran O'Grady and Kate Burke
\n43.50 - John Doherty Tune - Tracey McKeague
\n44.42 - She Moved Through The Fair / Danish Song / Borders Tunes - Sarah Wade
\n47.22 - Untitled Reels - Jim Dalton
\n48.42 - Clan O'Grady March - Ciaran O'Grady
\n50.31 - That's Right Too/The Leading Role - Liz Carroll
...
\n\nAgain, thank you to all our listeners. We hope you'll join us again next year for more tunes and craic.
\n\n...
\n\nAs we mentioned in the episode, we have big plans for 2020 and without your monetary support none of that would be possible. So thank you to all our patrons.
\n\nIf you'd like to round out the year by becoming a patron, then please head over to patreon.com/blarneypilgrims and hit the, "Join $2 Tier" button. You can also bump up your pledge amount to a higher number if you're so inclined.
\n\n...
\n\nRight that's it, see you all in 2020!
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
Part one of our two "best of" episodes. This episode features nothing but tunes and songs from our previous guests, and it's an absolute belter!
\n\nAs the year closes out, we'd like to thank all our guests for giving us their time and tunes. Without you, none of this would be possible, so a heart felt thank you to you all.
\n\nThe tunes and songs in this episode are;
\n\n08.11 - Fisherman's Day - Gerry McKeague
\n11.58 - Whistler At The Wake - Corinn Strating
\n13.15 - Newry Town - Jamie Molloy
\n16.31 - Con Cassidy Tune - Jamie Molloy
\n18.44 - The Green Gowned Lass - Mary MacNamara & Eileen O'Brien
\n21.14 - Stór Mo Chroí - Maggie Carty
\n24.10 - Pat Rainey - Daoirí Farrell
\n27.26 - Hoedown Throwdown - Austral
\n30.37 - Tunes - Beth - Beth McCracken
\n35.57 - Maudabawn Chapel - Kevin Burke
\n37.17 - London Town - Kevin Burke
\n40.17 - Lucy's Fling - Kevin Burke
\n41.43 - Ten Thousand Miles Away - Bush Gothic
\n45.03 - The Rambling Pitchfork - Chris Fitzgerald
\n46.15 - The Jolly Beggarman - John Carty
\n50.04 - The Boys From Dooley Gate - Sean Mathews
\n53.36 - The Sligo Maid - Paddy Fitzgerald
\n55.01 - Gerry Crossing To France - Paddy Fitzgerald
...
\n\nThank you to all our listeners. We hope you're enjoying the ride as much as we are. We can't wait for next year.
\n\n...
\n\nFinally, a massive thank you to all our patrons. It really mean so much when people chip in. And as we mentioned in the episode, we have big plans for 2020 and without your monetary support none of that would be possible.
\n\nIf this is the week you'd like to become a legend, then please head over to patreon.com/blarneypilgrims and hit that "Join $2 Tier" button. P.S. You're also more than welcome to bump that $2 pledge up to a higher number if you're inclined ; )
\n\n...
\n\nRight that's it, see you next week for The Blarney Pilgrims - Smash Hits 2019 - Volume 2
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
Music in Strabane; Donegal fiddle playing; life before Riverdance; Trinity College and Dublin; homesickness and music.
\n\nThanks for this great chat Tracey. Also thanks to Gerry McKeague for the lovely accompaniment.
\n\nIn this episode Tracy plays:
\n\nThe Boys of Blue Hill, The Home Ruler
\nJohn Doherty’s or Petticoat Loop
\nGráinne's Jig
\nThe Tax Max Mazurkas
\nThe Cobbler's Daughter
Enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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\n@BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Growing up in Luton, meeting Francis Droney, the anatomy of the concertina, English Folk music, and many many thoughts on identity, home and what "being Irish" means.
\n\nCiaran is currently working on a solo album with Aifric Boylan, Kate Burke and Graeme Newell and as soon as we hear news about it we'll let you know. We can't wait!
\n\nThanks for such an insightful chat Ciaran. It was a real pleasure.
\n\n(Apologies the mics were running a little hot during the tunes)
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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\n\nSarah plays the following tunes:
\nShe Moved Through The Fair
\nfollowed by a a Danish song called (in English)
\nIn The Depths of the Forest There's Calm and Peace,
\nfollowed by two hornpipes from the Scottish borders
Her second tune is the air to the Burns poem, A Man's A Man for A' That
\n\nThe third tune is Greensleeves, which is usually creited to Henry VIII
\n\nand the last tune is
\n\nThe Fairy Queen by Turlough O'Carolan
\n\nThanks Sarah, that was awesome.
\n\nThe Boxwood Music Weekend in Australia will be in Queenscliff, Victoria, from 27th February to 1st March, 2020. You can find details here:
\nhttp://www.boxwood.org/australia
The Geelong session I mentioned is happening Saturday 7th December from 2pm at the Sir Charles Hotham Hotel.
\n\nAnd you can pick up advance tickets to Trouble In The Kitchen's gig at The Last Jar here:
\nhttps://bit.ly/2ReawWJ
-
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Music is the opposite of work. Learning and re-learning how to play. And practicing as far away from the rest of your family as possible. A cracking chat with banjo player Tony McTigue.
\n\nTony plays the following tunes:
\nThe Donegal Lass / The Black Frog / The Sanctuary
\nThe Green Mountain / The Road to Rio / and something Tony can't remember the name of
\nThe Moving Cloud
\nand
\nA Barn Dance Set
Thanks for taking time out of the Sunday session Tony. And thanks for the intro chat Lisa Phillips.
\n...
If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Wallpaper factories; snowy German winters; yoga gurus and music as therapy. From his childhood home in Kildare, to finding comfort in song, Mark tells us how he found the music and about the role it plays in his life today.
\n\nIn this episode Mark sings:
\n\nJames Connolly The Irish Rebel
\nThe January Man
\nMiss Mcguire
\nCastle Kelly's
\nFar Away in Australia
\nThe Banks of the Moy
Thanks so much for time, stories and lovey songs Mark.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Line dance; Riverdance; competitive dance and finding the fiddle. How Davydd McDonald found the music via his feet.
\n\nApproaching midnight, in a tiny cabin, nestled in the rolling hills of the Otway Ranges, Davydd McDonald and Kit Joyce take time away from the QuasiTrad Tunes Camp session to talk all things dance and music.
\n\nFor anyone looking for tunes in Brisbane check out:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/GilhooleysBrisbane/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BrisbaneTradSession/
Or to follow Davydd on Facebook go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/davydd.mcdonald
Enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
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\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
To buy Liz's records or follow her, go here:
\nhttps://www.lizcarroll.com/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Liz-Carroll-230562170312283/
To find out more and follow QuasiTrad, go here:
\nhttps://quasitrad.com/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/quasitrad/
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
","summary":"The creative process; competitive fiddling; trying people on for size; listening for the rhythm of a session; and playing without expectations.","date_published":"2019-11-06T16:00:00.000+11:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/7G751/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9ddef04e-dbd8-4679-9f1e-878576121309/b2d73805-6910-46b0-96c4-eb28c1959182.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":87831675,"duration_in_seconds":4374}]},{"id":"ee4ff64f-faca-4f2e-afcf-f95eea216250","title":"Episode 21: Ado Barker Interview (Fiddle) ","url":"https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/21","content_text":"The mystery of Irish music; Yehudi Menuhin playing the shit out of Stephane Grappelli arrangements; late night sessions in Canberra and Ennis; the fear of learning to learn a tune by ear; and Six Degrees of Gerry McKeague. \n\nTruth be told this is the second ever episode we recorded. Back when Darren had a strictly non-speaking role. For a long time we thought it wasn't right, then upon revisiting, we realised what a cracker it is.\n\nAdo plays the following tunes during the episode: \n\nThe Golden Keyboard \nThe Oak Tree\nThe Porthole of The Kelp\n...a reel we never got the name of, and...\nThe London Jig\n\nEnjoy!\nDarren & Dom\n\n...\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.\n\n...\n\nDom's Notes\n\nOnce upon a time I spent a few nights kipping in an orange VW van that was parked just down the hill from Stirling Castle in Scotland. I was between jobs, and between (very shitty) houses, and the van was a refuge offered to me by my friends Frank and Linda. In the days when I wasn't sleeping in it, I'd look out for that van every time I was wondering across the top of the town, because if it was around it meant they were around, and if they were around it meant mugs of tea and music and a bit of crack. I loved that van. I kipped in it after gigs up the west of Scotland - ('Do ye dae any Rangers songs?' 'Naw, we're not that kind of blues band') - or Frank would drive us out to Cambusbarron or somewhere to pass a rainy afternoon talking about books and politics and quoits and a guy called 'Skin Bone' from Fallin who was the local champion. But more than the van, I loved being with Frank, Linda and their kids, Gregor, Neil, Peter and Emily.\n\nI used to work in a wine and whiskey shop in Stirling, just down the hill from Frank and Linda's house, which is how I first got to know them. I worked there for a good few years, and one of the perks was that I could play whatever music I wanted all day long on the shop stereo system. (Another perk was naptime in the cellar on delivery day). When there weren't many customers (Tuesday mornings) I'd drink mugs of instant coffee and construct complicated doodles on the wrapping paper stacked on the counter, daydreaming, wondering where in the world I'd be in some far off year like 2019, wondering if I'd look back fondly to working in a wine and whiskey shop in Stirling, Scotland, doodling and daydreaming. \n\nFrank was a regular visitor, shopping bags bursting on his way back up the hill from the shops, always with an eager ear out for what I was listening to - Dr Wu by Steely Dan, Songs of the Auvergne sung by Gill Gomez, The Bothy Band Live (Afterhours, that epic of epic albums) or Yank Rachell, on casette or CD. \n\nWe'd talk about trains, railway signal box design (Frank was a former signalman), beer (Efes Pilsener, Sam Smith's Nut Brown Ale, Redback), Walter Becker's hair and the engineer who supposedly accidentally wiped the original masters of the famously painstakingly assembled Countdown To Ecstasy, an album I knew from my brother Gerard's collection. We'd talk about whiskey and wine and mandolins and blues music and sausage rolls and Ye Jacobites By Name (Lend an ear, Lend an ear). And we ended up playing together on and off for years, in folk bands which always felt a bit ill fitting for Frank and blues-rock-ish bands which always felt a bit ill fitting for me. He is, I should say, because he wouldn't say it himself, a fabulous musician. He has the chops, but more than that, he has such heart, such a feel for music. He's the unassuming center of any band he plays in, basically.\n\nSo the McCullough's house was my home away from home, their kids like my own nephews and nieces. How do you quantify a friendship like that? Why would you even try? It's enough to say it's here, even now after...how many years? It'll always be with me, permanently wrapped around my heart. \n\nSo, when Ado Barker and Kate Burke and Beth McCracken and virtually everyone else we've spoken to mention that it feels strange to sit and play a tune in isolation, detached from its usual social setting, I know exactly what they mean. So much of what me and Ado talked about, even before we started recording, was about how music connects us to others, and to deeper parts of ourselves that we are only able to articulate through it. It was music that first connected me to Frank and Linda (well, music and my staff discount on cases of Portuguese lager). And it was music connected me with so, so many other friends besides. \n\nAs Ado was talking about going deep into the music I was remembering playing with Frank in a bar called The Tollbooth where we had a regular gig, him singing Back of My Mind (John Hiatt) or Steady Rollin' Man, bottleneck ratting on his Yamaha acoustic, me playing a mandolin borrowed from a friend ten years previous and never returned, a mandolin missing two of its tuning pegs. On those nights, and many others, especially working on some of Frank's own songs - brilliant, beautiful, melodic, and mostly unrecorded - I was often lost in what we were playing (in a good way, like). I mean, we'd be gone (in a good way, like).\n\nIn the way that Ado describes.\n\nThanks Ado. \n\nwww.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast\n@BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast","content_html":"The mystery of Irish music; Yehudi Menuhin playing the shit out of Stephane Grappelli arrangements; late night sessions in Canberra and Ennis; the fear of learning to learn a tune by ear; and Six Degrees of Gerry McKeague.
\n\nTruth be told this is the second ever episode we recorded. Back when Darren had a strictly non-speaking role. For a long time we thought it wasn't right, then upon revisiting, we realised what a cracker it is.
\n\nAdo plays the following tunes during the episode:
\n\nThe Golden Keyboard
\nThe Oak Tree
\nThe Porthole of The Kelp
\n...a reel we never got the name of, and...
\nThe London Jig
Enjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\n...
\n\nDom's Notes
\n\nOnce upon a time I spent a few nights kipping in an orange VW van that was parked just down the hill from Stirling Castle in Scotland. I was between jobs, and between (very shitty) houses, and the van was a refuge offered to me by my friends Frank and Linda. In the days when I wasn't sleeping in it, I'd look out for that van every time I was wondering across the top of the town, because if it was around it meant they were around, and if they were around it meant mugs of tea and music and a bit of crack. I loved that van. I kipped in it after gigs up the west of Scotland - ('Do ye dae any Rangers songs?' 'Naw, we're not that kind of blues band') - or Frank would drive us out to Cambusbarron or somewhere to pass a rainy afternoon talking about books and politics and quoits and a guy called 'Skin Bone' from Fallin who was the local champion. But more than the van, I loved being with Frank, Linda and their kids, Gregor, Neil, Peter and Emily.
\n\nI used to work in a wine and whiskey shop in Stirling, just down the hill from Frank and Linda's house, which is how I first got to know them. I worked there for a good few years, and one of the perks was that I could play whatever music I wanted all day long on the shop stereo system. (Another perk was naptime in the cellar on delivery day). When there weren't many customers (Tuesday mornings) I'd drink mugs of instant coffee and construct complicated doodles on the wrapping paper stacked on the counter, daydreaming, wondering where in the world I'd be in some far off year like 2019, wondering if I'd look back fondly to working in a wine and whiskey shop in Stirling, Scotland, doodling and daydreaming.
\n\nFrank was a regular visitor, shopping bags bursting on his way back up the hill from the shops, always with an eager ear out for what I was listening to - Dr Wu by Steely Dan, Songs of the Auvergne sung by Gill Gomez, The Bothy Band Live (Afterhours, that epic of epic albums) or Yank Rachell, on casette or CD.
\n\nWe'd talk about trains, railway signal box design (Frank was a former signalman), beer (Efes Pilsener, Sam Smith's Nut Brown Ale, Redback), Walter Becker's hair and the engineer who supposedly accidentally wiped the original masters of the famously painstakingly assembled Countdown To Ecstasy, an album I knew from my brother Gerard's collection. We'd talk about whiskey and wine and mandolins and blues music and sausage rolls and Ye Jacobites By Name (Lend an ear, Lend an ear). And we ended up playing together on and off for years, in folk bands which always felt a bit ill fitting for Frank and blues-rock-ish bands which always felt a bit ill fitting for me. He is, I should say, because he wouldn't say it himself, a fabulous musician. He has the chops, but more than that, he has such heart, such a feel for music. He's the unassuming center of any band he plays in, basically.
\n\nSo the McCullough's house was my home away from home, their kids like my own nephews and nieces. How do you quantify a friendship like that? Why would you even try? It's enough to say it's here, even now after...how many years? It'll always be with me, permanently wrapped around my heart.
\n\nSo, when Ado Barker and Kate Burke and Beth McCracken and virtually everyone else we've spoken to mention that it feels strange to sit and play a tune in isolation, detached from its usual social setting, I know exactly what they mean. So much of what me and Ado talked about, even before we started recording, was about how music connects us to others, and to deeper parts of ourselves that we are only able to articulate through it. It was music that first connected me to Frank and Linda (well, music and my staff discount on cases of Portuguese lager). And it was music connected me with so, so many other friends besides.
\n\nAs Ado was talking about going deep into the music I was remembering playing with Frank in a bar called The Tollbooth where we had a regular gig, him singing Back of My Mind (John Hiatt) or Steady Rollin' Man, bottleneck ratting on his Yamaha acoustic, me playing a mandolin borrowed from a friend ten years previous and never returned, a mandolin missing two of its tuning pegs. On those nights, and many others, especially working on some of Frank's own songs - brilliant, beautiful, melodic, and mostly unrecorded - I was often lost in what we were playing (in a good way, like). I mean, we'd be gone (in a good way, like).
\n\nIn the way that Ado describes.
\n\nThanks Ado.
\n\nwww.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Mandolin and banjo player Jimmy Dalton of Waterford joins us this week to talk about leaving Ireland, foundry work, Cardiff sessions and leaving your banjo at home. Oh, and Bush Bands, mandolins and marches.
\n\nJimmy runs a monthly session in Geelong at the Sir Charles Hotham. To find out more about this session shoot us a message and we'll pass your details on to Jimmy.
\n\nOnce again, thanks so much for your time and tunes Jimmy, it was a pleasure.
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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\n\nDom's notes:
\n\nAs I mention in the intro to today's episode, Jimmy Dalton was at one of the first house sessions I was invited to when I moved to Australia. He was sitting at the end of a long kitchen table with a mandolin, a mandola, a banjo, and a glint in his eye. He is, as they might say in Co. Antrim, a wile man for the music. He was also one of our first interviews for The Blarney Pilgrims, and we touch on quite a few of the ideas that we explore in other episodes.
\n\nAs I also mention in the intro, he knows scads of tunes, and when he's playing you can often see him feel his way into a set, like a car merging into traffic,his eyes fixed on some distant destination. It's very cool to watch - or hear, more accurately.
\n\nHe invited me to play the mandola one night at a session, and as I was finding my way around trying to accompany the jigs that we were playing, I got to thinking about that instrument. I used to play a mandola when I was a teenager. At least, that's what the guy in Owen's music shop in Ballymoney told me it was. He also told me it was tuned G - D - A - C or something, and so for a good few months I was contorting myself into all sorts of shapes until I realised I could just tune it like a mandolin and it'd be a lot less painful for everybody concerned. That mandola was a gift from my mum and dad, who could ill afford it I know now, but who took me over to Ballymoney anyway with the promise of a complicated stringed instrument of some sort. Ultimately it came down to a choice between the mandola and a hammer dulcimer. Who knew there would be a hammer dulcimer tucked away in a dusty corner of a music shop in Ballymoney of all places...where did it come from? How did it get there? Anyway, I went for the mandola because that's what Andy Irvine played, and the only things I knew about the hammer dulcimer was that it was the instrument in the Ask The Family theme tune, and that it featured on one of my brothers' albums, Nana Mouskouri Live In Athens.
\n\nBallymoney was where we drove to drop off and pick up brothers and sisters heading home from, or back up to, The City (Belfast). It was where the train left from - a freezing railway station with excessively dynamic weather patterns on Platform 1 and a great bar attached that was owned by the legendary motorcycle champion (road racing) Joey Dunlop. A bar where I once witnessed the second most epic spillage of pints I've ever seen - 8 pints of Guinness on two trays hitting the floor simultaneously (the most epic spillage being in The Blue Moon in Seattle - 4 pitchers of Manny's IPA on a packed Friday evening). It always seemed unimaginably dreary to me when I was a child, Ballymoney, and yet there was a mandola AND a hammer dulcimer there, in that music shop. Alongside the latest albums by Victor Gregg, The Singing Barber, and John Watt, The Singing Farmer. So maybe it wasn't that bad after all.
\n\nMy dad drove there to work every day for about thirty-five or forty years. I often wonder what he thought about on that half hour drive each morning and evening. If he ever wondered about the trajectory of his life, about destiny, about mortality. Or if he was really just glad of a bit of time to himself in the car. Respite from a house full of weans, one of them ploinking away on a mis-tuned, eight stringed mandola. 'Thank God we didn't get him the dulcimer.'
\n\nThanks again, Jimmy, for taking the time to play for us, to chat, and for the chance to have a shot on your accurately tuned mandola.
\n\n...
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\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
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This conversation is a real slow burn, and we LOVED recording it. You're in for a treat.
\n\nHere is the translation Kate mentions, a version of Donal Og that's startling and strange in the ways that only really great translations can be. (He said, knowing very little about translations, really). (Though I'll correct myself and say that it's probably true that really bad translations can be startling and strange too...)
\n\nDonal Og
\nIt is late last night the dog was speaking of you;
\nthe snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh.
\nIt is you are the lonely bird through the woods;
\nand that you may be without a mate until you find me.
You promised me, and you said a lie to me,
\nthat you would be before me where the sheep are flocked;
\nI gave a whistle and three hundred cries to you,
\nand I found nothing there but a bleating lamb.
You promised me a thing that was hard for you,
\na ship of gold under a silver mast;
\ntwelve towns with a market in all of them,
\nand a fine white court by the side of the sea.
You promised me a thing that is not possible,
\nthat you would give me gloves of the skin of a fish;
\nthat you would give me shoes of the skin of a bird;
\nand a suit of the dearest silk in Ireland.
When I go by myself to the Well of Loneliness,
\nI sit down and I go through my trouble;
\nwhen I see the world and do not see my boy,
\nhe that has an amber shade in his hair.
It was on that Sunday I gave my love to you;
\nthe Sunday that is last before Easter Sunday
\nand myself on my knees reading the Passion;
\nand my two eyes giving love to you for ever.
My mother has said to me not to be talking with you today,
\nor tomorrow, or on the Sunday;
\nit was a bad time she took for telling me that;
\nit was shutting the door after the house was robbed.
My heart is as black as the blackness of the sloe,
\nor as the black coal that is on the smith's forge;
\nor as the sole of a shoe left in white halls;
\nit was you put that darkness over my life.
You have taken the east from me, you have taken the west from me;
\nyou have taken what is before me and what is behind me;
\nyou have taken the moon, you have taken the sun from me;
\nand my fear is great that you have taken God from me!
(Shades of St Patrick's prayer in that last verse...)
\n\nSo what do I ACTUALLY know about translation? Mostly what I remember from many long, wonderful (as in full of wonder), beery conversations with my pal, Ian Lavery. Poet, academic, punctuation pedant and a very, very funny man. Anyway, when he was doing his PhD on Northern Irish poetry I would regularly perform my friendly duty by insisting he come drinking with me when he should have been working. So it was Ian who witnessed me - two bottles of white wine to the wind and heading for a few pints - walking into the road and smashing the windscreen of an oncoming car with my head. All the classic accident shit went down - a local lad leaned over me shouting 'How many fingers can you see pal, how many FINGERS?' My shoe came off (just the one.) And I apparently garbled half remembered lines from Seamus Heaney's 'Station Island' all the way to the hospital. And yes, I do realize that makes me sound like a complete wanker.
\n\nAnyway, so, when Kate mentioned Donal Og I thought of Ian because he knows his translations. And because he's from Carrickfergus, and first turned me on to Louis MacNeice, also from Carrickfergus. Who worked at the BBC in London for many years and was friends with (seriously) Andy Irvine (check out this interview with Andy if you don't believe me):
\n\nhttps://podtail.com/en/podcast/rte-second-captains/second-captains-andy-irvine/
\n\nSo thinking of friendship, and distance, and love, as Kate was singing Donal Og, and then and then...the song was over, and we talked some more about other things. And then Kate mentioned her children, and bringing them the see where she studied geology in Melbourne, and THAT'S when I sort of made my tangled, inarticulate attempt to say that...what...everything is everything. Music, songs, friendship, love, food, cars, biscuits, concertinas. All of it. Or, as the great Scottish songwriter Michael Marra might have said...The World is Phul o' A Number o' Things...
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jz6LJXUqhI
\n\nWhich isn't a million miles away from this:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMNXogXnvE
\n\nIf you're of a melancholy turn of mind, you need songs like these. I wrote to Kate the day after we finished recording to say thanks, and what a lovely way to spend an evening. And it's true.
\n\nThanks Kate (and Ciaran O'Grady) for the chance to listen.
\n\n...
\n\nThe New Graces (Kate Burke, Melanie Horsnell and Robyn Martin) have recently tracked and mastered their debut album at Sydney’s Rancom Street Studios, working with producer Garth Porter (Sherbet, Lee Kernaghan) and legendary engineer Ted Howard (Gurrumul, Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys). The album is due for release in early 2020. (Website coming soon)
\n\nTo buy Kate's music go here:
\n\nlukeplumbandkateburke.com
\n\nkateandruth.com
\n\ntroubleinthekitchen.com
\n\n...
\n\nTo learn more about QuasiTrad go here:
\n\n\n\n...
\n\nAnd finally, as aways.
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
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Recorded live at the 2019 Guildford Banjo Jamboree. Banjo player and guitarist Tony O'Rourke chats with us about the consolations of melody, Johnny Connolly's melodeon, the invention of white-out and The Monkees.
\n\nTo find out more about Tony's Irish Guitar Podcast go here.
\n\n\n\nThanks again for your time Tony.
\n\nAlso thanks to the Guildford General Store for allowing is to record onsite during the Guildford Banjo Jamboree. You can find those guys here: https://www.facebook.com/guildfordgeneralstore
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Thank you so much to David Game for your time and lovely tunes. Also a huge thanks to the Guildford Corner Store for the use of your back room to record in.
\n\nThe tunes played in this episode are:
\n\nThe Mountain Road (Trad)
\nThe Rose in the Heather (Trad)
\nPaddy's Trip to Scotland (Trad)
\nMullingar Races (Trad)
For more info on the Canberra Irish Club go here: https://www.irishclub.com.au/
\nFor more info on Comhaltas Canberra go here: https://www.facebook.com/Comhaltas-Canberra-580450142467295/
...
\n\nDom's notes:
\n\nI really love this conversation. We very easily found our way into the stuff that gets me going - the ephemeral nature of the experience of playing music, the naming and honoring of players we used to listen to, and - of all things - The Brass Fiddle.
\n\nI have no certain memory of how I came across that CD of Donegal fiddle music that we talk about. But on first listening to it, I remember I was blown away by its elemental nature. It's not just that the recordings are plain and true. It's that the playing itself is completely unfussy and unafraid. In fact, what it is, now that I think about it, is authentic. It IS what it is.
\n\nDoodley Doodley Dank is the Con Cassidy track David hums, I think. I thought I was cool having that rarity of a CD that I got from who knows where, but as if to prove our point about how you can get everything everywhere now, you can listen to The Brass Fiddle on Spotify. So I'm slightly less cool now. Anyway, check it out.
\n\nSince we started the Blarney Pilgrims, one of the revelations me and Darren have had is that the fiddle is an intensely physical instrument. The music is born of friction, which goes some way to explain the appeal of the instrument maybe, and the seemingly endless variety that's audibly apparent between different players. Even if they share the same background, draw on the same regional style of playing, no two people sound the same. And I wonder is it my imagination, or is the fiddle unique in how it allows players to express themselves with such individuality, because as Chris Fitzgerald says, playing it is a wrestling match. And then I wonder if other bowed instruments have the same quality. And I'm thinking about Jordi Savall, the amazing Catalan musician who plays the viola da gamba. If you've never heard that guy's music, you're missing out. His 1988 album Les Voix Humaines will blow your mind.
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylpOO-7cyt0
\n\nI was introduced to this by two great friends, Jon and Mary Pritchard, when they lived in London, I lived in Scotland and we would spend every weekend we could manage hanging around drinking, eating and just having a completely beautiful time. As I did with Darren at the Banjo Jamboree in Guildford, Victoria.
\n\nDavid, thanks for taking time out from the festival to talk to us.
\n\n...
\n\nIf you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims.
\n\nOf course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend.
\n\nIf you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. You can still support the show by sharing it on your socials, posting about it in your favourite forums or simply by telling your mates about it down the pub.
\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
The National Museum of Australia video where Angus plays his great-great grandfather's violin can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGGPf_ZXdA
\n\nAngus plays fiddle with Caity Brennan, Connor Hoy and Rhys Crimmin in the band Austral which we caught up with in a previous episode. It's a banger, and definitely worth checking out. You'll find it here when you're ready: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/7
\n\nTo Follow Angus on social go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/australmusic/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/gus.barnaby
To buy Austral's music, including "Hoedown Throwdown" go here: https://australtradmusic.bandcamp.com/
\n\nAgain, thanks so much for your time Angus.
\n\n...
\n\nNow, here's Dom's notes.
\n\nAngus’ first tune, The Musical Priest, is one of the first tunes I ever learned. Me and Tony Murray used to play it as a whistle two-fer, with little fragments of harmony wound in and around the main strands of the melody. It’s a session staple, anchored around the B natural that gives it a sort of wintry quality, I always think. But as Angus plays it, it has a warmth to it and, as he says himself, a swing.
\n\nAnyway, when I was 16 or 17 that was a tune we’d play in The House Of McDonnell, more usually known as ‘Tom’s’ after the owner, Tom O’Neill. Our first regular gig as a band, in the tiny back room that’d regularly be crammed – and I mean crammed – with people down from Belfast for the holidays, or from Corrymeela (a sort of retreat center outside town where Catholic young people from troubled parts of the north could get together with Protestant young people from troubled parts of the north for cross-community groping sessions. Heavy petting for peace. ‘See? We ARE actually all the same after all!’) One of the youth workers accompanying them one night wore a mini skirt made from a black bin liner, and black leggings. I was entranced and frightened in equal measure. ‘So THAT’S why mum and dad are always talking about how dangerous it is in Belfast...’
\n\nThen for some reason I can’t remember, that gig ended. I was distraught, in a teenage kind of a way. And as was my habit in those days, I’d dive headfirst into my grief by lying on the dining room floor of our house with my head between the speakers of the ITT stereo system we’d inherited from Mrs Buntane, a friend of my dad’s. On the first Friday night after we no longer had a gig, in the throes of my despair, I was listening to Barclay James Harvest Live in Berlin (probably the most embarrassing thing I have yet admitted to in these notes to date) when I got a phone call to say we’d been asked to play in the Boyd Arms instead. Seriously? I was ecstatic.
\n\nIn the Boyd Arms’ front room with its curved wall behind us, beside the fireplace, we played quiet Friday nights when a few punters would stick their heads around the door then head into the main bar, and other nights where you could hardly move for the people. It was great. Without that chance to play every Friday night, and the other gigs that came from it, I have no idea how I’d have spent my teenage Friday nights. Oh, wait, yes I do. Listening to Barclay James Harvest Live in Berlin.
\n\nAnyway, me and Darren often talk about having the chance to listen to players at close quarters and how cool that is. And that’s true – there’s something very unique about having the opportunity to really listen to a player working through a tune on their own. It’s dramatically different from the habitat of a session – it’s exposed and honest, a human being articulating what a tune is about for them, in that moment.
\n\nThanks again, Angus Barbary.
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First off, thanks to Mickey O'Donnell and Michelle Doyle for doing their interview with approximately two hours advance notice. They don't hang about, those two. Please go here to support their osteoporosis awareness campaign:
\n\nhttps://www.mickeymichelle.com/bone-health.html
\n\nAnd so. The Harp.
\n\nWhen I was at Uni my mates used to laugh at the fact that my passport had 'the Guinness symbol' on the front cover. I'd never really given it much thought up until then, the fact that the passport and the extra stout shared the same symbol. What was the actual mechanism by which the image of a harp ended up on the Irish passport, I wonder? Who decided? There must have been a committee. And given the tendency for committees to be agonizing and infuriating, and given the tendency for Irish republicans to disagree amongst themselves from time to time, I'm sure the decision wasn't arrived at easily. Come to think of it, humans in general have a great talent for separating themselves into different sects over pointless passions. I mean, I worked in a place once where there was a long running and spectacularly ill-tempered series of arguments about whether there should be an electric kettle in the new tearoom that people could switch on 'as and when' they need to make a cup of tea, or one of those giant shiny urns that keeps the water at a constant temperature of 3000 degrees so you can scald yourself instantly without having to wait for a minute and a half. So it'd be no surprise if deciding on the harp was a cause of angst in the early days of the Republic.
\n\nI looked it up in these antique things I have in my house called reference books, like an intellectual might do. But there was nothing there so I googled it and found this piece from The Irish Post, written by Mary Louise O'Donnell:
\n\nhttps://www.irishpost.com/life-style/history-irish-harp-symbol-ireland-57038
\n\nGiraldus Cambrensis how are ye!
\n\nAnd then there's Turlough O'Carolan. He was blind, a traveling harper and composed a whole rake (I just realized I don't know how to spell that word right) of tunes that are really quite strange to my ear. They have a European feel to them in places, quite elaborately ornamented, and as I think about it now there were two of his tunes I learned to play early on: Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór (The Little Fairy Hill and The Big Fairy Hill) and Fanny Power (emphasis on the second word.)
\n\nI mentioned Alan Stivell's 'Renaissance of the Celtic Harp' in our chat with Michelle and Mickey. It's one of those records that has the power to pull me back, in what feels like an almost physical experience, back to my youth. (I know, I know, I say that every week, but it's true, that really does happen to me every week, more than one time...it's a wonder I can get out of my scratcher at all some days...)
\n\nAnyway, the image I have of that album is of a cover with some sort of seascape on the front, kind of ghostly and weirdly Celtic-y, even though at that time I had no idea what that was even about, and still don't really. There were only five tracks on it and one of them took up the whole of Side 2 and had pretty much every 'trad' instrument I'd ever heard of crammed into it, and several I hadn't. And there was another track called 'Ys' that had sea sounds and whistles and a sort of ambient feel to it. It was weird, man.
\n\nI was introduced to that record by a radical priest who had arrived in our town. When I say radical, I mean he had long hair and a beard and a dog, and talked like a normal human being. And he told me there was this cool thing called General Absolution that meant you didn't have to actually go to confession, you could just have forgiveness bestowed upon you, kind of like having the holy water scattered on you at Easter but without you actually having to show up. He was great. He lent me Van Morrison's 'It's Too Late To Stop Now' (which I still have), 'Meddle' by Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen's 'Songs From a Room' and loads of other music that was a lot more interesting to me at the time than the Celtic harp.
\n\nAnd yet, true story, diving once again through the boundless depths of Spotify one day looking for stuff to send to Darren, what did I find but that very album. And when I listened to the first few seconds of 'Ys,' with the waves and the opening notes and the harmonics, I was, like I say, pulled back towards my youth. That album was released in 1971 and even today it sounds pretty out there. Even when you're not stoned out of your gourd. You should give it a listen sometime.
\n\nOn the way back from the interview with Mickey and Michelle, Darren and me were wondering how people so young have such confidence. Then we realized it's probably at least in part because they're ridiculously talented, and that's kind of lovely to witness. And truth be told, I think we were both a tiny wee bit jealous at the excitement and enthusiasm and joy they have for what's ahead of them - the music and the work and the travel. As a couple of cynics, we found it pretty inspiring.
\n\nMichelle, Mickey, thanks for the chat, and for the chance to listen to you play.
\n\nMichelle and Mickey's website and socials are here:
\nwww.mickeymichelle.com
\nwww.instagram.com/mickeyandmichelle
\nwww.facebook.com/mickeymichellemusic
Also the Pozible crowdfunding campaign for their debut album finishes on Wednesday the 18th at 8pm. And here's the link for that: https://www.pozible.com/profile/michael-odonnell-3
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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When we started talking about creating a podcast, Paddy Fitzgerald's name was pretty much at the top of the list of people we knew we had to talk to. After months of planning we finally got the chance to sit down together and Paddy was every bit as charming and insightful as we'd imagined him to be.
\n\nPaddy, thanks so much. Not just for your time here in this podcast, but for the decades of dedication to the music, your kindness and your influence on countless players from all over the world.
\n\nFor anyone that would like to follow Paddy, please keep an eye on the Last Jar's session page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2221430788122520/
\n\nEnjoy!
\nDarren & Dom
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Sean Mathews talks to Darren, a fellow Drogheda man, about the music, life, shyness and belonging (or rather, the feeling that you don't). In many respects this episode sums up why we started this podcast.
\n\nSean, thank you so much for this. This is really special.
\n\nIn this episode Sean sings:
\n\nThe Boys From Dooley Gate (Trad)
\nThorneymoor Woods (Trad)
\nThe Pope's Children (Original)
\nDays of our Prime (Original)
To follow Sean you'll find him here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/sean.mathews.92
\nhttps://twitter.com/seanymathews
To buy his new album go here:
\nhttps://store.cdbaby.com/cd/seanmathews3
You can also stream it from here:
\nhttps://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B07VYW1RVW
\nspotify:album:30RUK8Hue1HbbN8V1U8F6E
\nhttps://music.apple.com/au/album/dreaming-is-allowed/1475193841
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Banjo in Irish music, where "the session" was born, musical accents and so much more.
\n\nWhile in Drogheda to receive The Flanagan Brothers' Award, John Carty stopped past Darren's Mam and Dad's to sit down, chat and play us some tunes.
\n\nThe tunes played in this episode are:
\n\nThe Jolly Beggerman/(unknown)/Paddy McGinty's Goat
\nThe Jug O' Punch/Eddie Kelly's
\nThe Geese in the Bog
\nPeelers Creek/(Unknown - Verona Ryan Tune)
To follow John Carty go here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Johnpatrickcarty
\nhttps://twitter.com/johncartymusic
To buy his amazing albums go here:
\nhttp://www.johncartymusic.com/music.asp
Thank you so much for your time John, and congrats again on the award.
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‘The Session is about what’s created during The Session.’
\n\nSo I’m (me, Dom) sitting in The Last Jar on a Wednesday night, and the session is slowly coming to life. I’ve hidden myself away in a corner so I can listen, tentatively join in here and there, and hopefully not make an arse of myself. But mainly, I’m listening. And something happens…how can I describe this without it sounding over the top? Like, there are these simultaneous impressions washing around me. I’ve only been in Australia a few months, don’t feel like I know many people, I’m shy, introverted. And I’m hearing this music that’s familiar, yet distant because of how long it’s been since I played in any dedicated way. And there’s the smell of the beer and the rhythms of the chat and while I know rationally that I’m in Melbourne in 2018, in my blood – seriously, I don’t really talk about ‘blood’ type stuff but that’s what it felt like – in my blood I have these fleeting moments when feel like I’m in Ballycastle, in the Boyd Arms on a Friday night and it’s 1985. I mean, it’s so intense, and so momentary, I’m here, I’m there, I’m lost, I’m back again. And really, it’s totally brilliant. I mean, it’s so hard to walk back out into the everyday world after such that experience. Catching the train home seems so mundane after you’ve been set alight by this music all around you, and yet, that echoing music in your head is what you carry with you. And that’s why this stuff matters in the first place – because we it carry out into the world and hopefully that makes the world infinitesimally better somehow, even if you can’t put it into words, even if politics is shit and fascism’s on the march. Playing music, listening to music - it’s not quite manning the barricades but you have to hope and believe in your heart that it’s at least one tiny, tiny act of resistance. One tiny, tiny way of making a stand.
\n\nThank you to Chris Fitzgerald and all the musicians at The Last Jar for their generosity and for… the tunes.
\n\n‘The Session is about what’s created during The Session.’
\n\nAnd thanks too to everybody who’s gone to patreon.com/blarneypilgrims and subscribed – we’re so grateful for your help in keeping this podcast rolling. I’m tempted to try out some oul’ public radio pledge drive lines from my past life in Seattle like, ‘You listen differently when you’re a subscriber.’
\n\nBut I won’t.
\n\nIf you can subscribe, great, and if you can’t that’s OK too.
\n\nThank you for listening.
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First off, thanks to everybody who’s nipped over to
\n\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
\n\nand subscribed to the podcast. If you’ve not yet done it, and have been meaning to, there’s never been a better time. Your reward will be great in heaven. And thanks.
\n\nNow, this episode is a slight departure for us in that nobody mentions Planxty. Not once. And there’s less of a strictly traditional Irish feel to this one. But basically we had a chance to record Bush Gothic at Portarlington, so we said ‘Yes please.’
\n\nIf you’re not yet familiar with them, Bush Gothic reimagine traditional songs - from Australia, Ireland, England, wherever they find them - in the deepest sense of that word ‘reimagine.’ What happens when that happens? Songs are suddenly visible in new light, with new contours and meanings evident. It’s pretty amazing. You think about words you’ve heard maybe hundreds of times before in a whole new way.
\n\nAnd as I mention in the intro to the episode, they leave space in their arrangements, so you can really hear the songs, the music, unfurl. So listen, with headphones if possible, cos this is seriously beautiful music.
\n\nAnd here’s some things to get you going after you’re done listening:
\n\nDarren mentions one of the band’s films, which you can see here – their version of the (I think) English song, Jim Jones:
\n\n\n\nThen there’s the toxic masculinity of Kenneth McKellar. (I know, right?) Here he is singing ‘The Wee Cooper of Fife’, the song I referred to…nickety nackety noo…
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcH0qtyvbQE
\n\n…The Ould Triangle, as sung by Brendan Behan…
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7red9Rw4450
\n\n…and following on from our chat about Burns, some thoughts on the great Scottish poet as a ‘Weinsteinian Sex Pest’:
\n\n\n\n…and a suggestion that Veronica Forrest-Thomson might be a poet more worthy of your attention:
\n\n\n\nSo, why were we (me and my pals) celebrating Burns, as discussed in the episode? At the time I took shelter in the notion that what I felt we were celebrating was not Burns the man, with his qualities and his failings, but the idea of Burns. A man, a poet, a romantic and an espouser in verse of liberal ideals of the kind found in ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’:
\n\nIs there for honest Poverty
\n\nThat hings his head, an’ a’ that;
\nThe coward slave – we pass him by,
\nWe dare be poor for a’ that!
\nFor a’ that, an’ a’ that.
\nOur toils obscure and a’ that,
\nThe rank is but a guinea’s stamp,
\nThe Man’s the gowd for a’ that…
Then let us pray that come it may,
\n(As come it will for a’ that,)
\nThat Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth,
\nShall bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
\nFor a’ that, an’ a’ that,
\nIt’s coming yet for a’ that,
\nThat Man to Man, the world o’er,
\nShall brothers be for a’ that.
Sung, in an amazing, emotional moment, by Sheena Wellington at the official opening of the Scottish Parliament:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o
\n\nBut maybe my explanation was a cop out, I’m not sure. Also, I’ve just realized, I fell in love with Burns’s song Now Westlin’ Winds, as recorded by Dick Gaughan, at the same time as I fell in love with a girl who didn’t fall in love with me. If you’re looking for the poem from which the song derives, it’s called Song Composed in August, and it’s gorgeous:
\n\nhttp://www.robertburns.org/works/31.shtml
\n\nCheck out that nature imagery ya bas. Here’s Dick Gaughan’s version:
\n\n\n\nSo I’m sure my unrequited teenage love had something to do with something. And, finally, you can’t ignore the fact that if nothing else, Burns Night is a great excuse for a massive, ceremonial piss-up in the middle of winter. So there’s that.
\n\nAnd then there’s the English band The Unthanks:
\n\nhttp://www.the-unthanks.com/about/
\n\nI first came across their music through their…what…heart-stopping version of the King Of Rome:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fL3E8FRxiw
\n\n…which sends shivers through me every time I hear it, and puts me in mind of both Elbow, and Kate Rusby’s ‘My Young Man,’ which is also completely heart-stopping:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY
\n\nAnd finally, Darren references Turkey In The Straw and the debate that comes and goes in the Old Time world, I suspect, about whether it’s possible to unweave a melody from the words it has traditionally been attached to.
\n\nThis is the NPR feature on the song’s origins:
\n\n\n\nI wonder too, as Jenny says, if there are some songs, melodies – whatever – that we should just bury once and for all, because they’re so damaging. Which, when all’s said and done, seems fine to me.
\n\nJenny M Thomas, Dan Witton and Chris Lewis, thanks again.
\n\nBush Gothic’s live filming is happening on Monday September 2nd at the Retreat Hotel in Abbotsford. You can get tickets here:
\n\n\n\nAnd you can get hold of their albums at their bandcamp page:
\n\nhttps://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/
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In Portland, Oregon, Kevin Burke made me (Dom) a cup of tea and we sat in his living room for two hours on a sunny, Friday afternoon, and talked. It was delightful. What did we talk about? Being a boy in post war London; learning the fiddle from a lady called Ms. Kristofferson; bumping into Joe Burke at JFK after trying and failing to get Arlo Guthrie’s phone number from Directory Enquiries, and so much more. Including Michael Coleman.
\n\n‘That chap,’ said Ms. Kristofferson, ‘he really finds the soul of his instrument.’
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ZJVV1CGz4
\n\nSome of the other players Kevin mentions...
\n\n‘Probably the most shocking, the most uplifting and inspiring – like in the old fashioned sense of the word, awesome – was a guy called Brendan McGlinchey. I was completely awestruck when he sat down and started playing.’
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rd-I25-eQ
\n\nLiam O’Hara from Sligo. Tommy and Ted McGowan and Tommy and Eddie Corcoran from Gortin. And most of the Liverpool Ceili Band. And if you want to get a really good feel for the vibe of that time in London when Kevin was growing up, get your hands on this collection. You’ll hear many of the musicians Kevin mentions, including Lucy Farr and Eddie Corcoran:
\n\n\n\nAnd Joe Burke:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbFXptMpD4
\n\nThis version of Paddy Tunney singing The lowlands of Holland is, as we discussed, mind blowingly beautiful:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KjyRVd926s
\n\nKevin played the following tunes:
\n\n1 Maudabawn Chapel, written by Ed Reavy, after whom there’s now an annual festival. Check it out here:
\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/EdReavyTradFest/
\n\n2 The Sailor on the Rock.
\n\n‘It’s the first tune I learned just from hearing at a session. A fella called Con Curtin and and fella called Edmund Murphy played it one night. And I went home and I found I could play it, just from hearing them play it. And I was thrilled, that’s the first time that ever happened to me.‘
\n\nYou can find out more about Con Curtin and the ‘Sliabh Luachra’ style of playing here:
\n\n\n\n3 Morrison’s Jig, which Kevin has just re-recorded with John Carty for his new album ‘Sligo Made’
\n\n4 Paris Nights, by Cal Scott
\n\n5 London Town, written by Kevin Burke and Cal Scott
\n\nand
\n\n6 Lucy’s Fling, from the playing of Lucy Farr
\n\nAs will happen, I was hoking about looking for clips of the McGowan brothers when I came across this, featuring Seamus Tansey and James Murray. It’s pretty funny, entitled ‘Sligo Flute Controversy!’ – worth a gander:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1m1KMtIjWA
\n\nOne last thing - thanks to Ruby Hoy for her help in making this episode happen, and to Bronnie Griffin.
\n\nAnd thank you Kevin Burke.
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Playing from the page, versus playing by ear, Beth McCracken talks about her transition from classical flute to traditional Irish music. Through her personal story, Beth highlights just how different these two worlds can be.
\n\nThanks again to Beth for taking the time to sit down with us. Also thanks to Declan Simpson for the accompaniment, maybe next time you'll join us in the hot seat?
\n\nThe session Beth mentions is on in the Drunken Poet on Friday evenings. You can find out more about that here: https://www.facebook.com/drunkenpoetmusic/
\n\nFinally, thanks again to Una McAlinden for the chance to record on location at the National Celtic Festival.
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\n\nTill next time.
\nDarren & Dom
www.blarneypilgrims.com
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\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Uilleann pipes and sub-drops. Connor Hoy and Austral share their infectious energy live at the National Celtic Festival.
\n\nLet's start off with who Austral are:
\nOn uilleann pipes and whistle we have Connor Hoy, on fiddle, bouzouki and vocals we have Angus Barbary, on fiddle also we have Caity Brennan, and finally, on guitar, didgeridoo (didgeribone?), cajon, tambourine and other assorted wizardry we have Rhys Crimmin.
To follow Austral and to witness the magic for yourself go here:
\nwww.australband.com
\nwww.facebook.com/australmusic/
\nwww.instagram.com/austral.music/
To buy Austral's music, go here:
\nhttps://australtradmusic.bandcamp.com/album/austral
...
\n\nWe were so lucky to have a chance to spend an hour with these four at the National Celtic Festival. They even brought a few beers with them. And we started off chatting with Connor about his background because he was in from Adelaide, and it was a good chance to nab him. But the chat soon wondered on to some more other areas - specifically, the momentum and dynamics the band work so hard to create during their live gigs. And which they totally pulled off in front of our audience at the Bendigo Bank Community Room.
\n\nAnd as is customary in Blarney Pilgrim interviews, we scored a direct hit on the Planxty Bingo - the first mention of Liam Og O'Flynn, piper and whistle player, and towering figure in traditional music. (The current tally, since you ask, is something like Andy Irvine 572 mentions, Donal Lunny 16, Liam O'Flynn 1, and Christy Moore 1.)
\n\nSo Liam O'Flynn - a carrier of the (uileann) piping tradition into the modern era, through his Planxty work and solo projects. One of which was a double header with poet Seamus Heaney at the Royal Concert Hall (I think) in Glasgow. I was there (I think.) On a cold autumn night listening to Liam play unaccompanied, and Seamus Heaney read - that's an intensely lyrical experience. It's hard to put into words (which doesn't mean I won't give it a shot...heh...) But it was...what...the traditions playing off each other seems too narrow a way of describing it, even though that's what was going on. But there was a tonality to it, the combination of the tone of Liam O'Flynn's pipes, and the timbre of Heaney's voice, his intonation and rhythm and swing. In fact, the common ways of describing music and poetry - tone, rhythm, swing - give you an idea of what it was like. One of those experiences that echoes through your system for a long time after.
\n\nSo hearing Connor mention Liam O'Flynn's impact on him as a young player was really great. And it's always cool to hear the uileann pipes at close quarters. They really work in a room setting - very different to the (Scottish) bagpipes, which a friend of mine used to play in a tiny stone cavern of a bar years ago as a party piece after we finished our main set. Sending the tourists reeling ecstatically out into the night air with ringing ears and blood thundering around their beery bodies. Awesome, fearsome.
\n\nAnd it was so, so great to have a live audience with us - thank you everyone who came along. Including Connor's grandmother, who we'll be chatting with in a future episode. She joined us on stage for a quick tune, and we're really excited about talking to her when we make it to Adelaide in the months to come. Look out, too, for an interview with Angus from the band in a future episode, and with Caity too.
\n\nThanks again to Austral. Find them when you can, and go see 'em - they're not to be missed. And thanks also to the National Celtic Festival, and Una McAlinden in particular, for the chance to record on location.
\n\n...
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\n\nRight, that's it for today.
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From a teen growing up in Crumlin in the 90s, to touring the world as a multi-award winning solo artist, Daoirí Farrell shares his incredible journey with us and treats us to a few tunes along the way.
\n\nTo follow Daoirí, and more importantly, to buy his CDs, you can find him here:
\nhttp://daoiri.com/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DaoiriFarrell/
...
\n\nWhere do you start? Maybe the obvious place, the place I first came across his music thanks to a tip from my good mate from Ballycastle, Alex Campbell: his version of The Creggan White Hare. This is the song me and Darren refer to in our intro, a song which at the time of writing has a meagre 1,287,874 views on YouTube:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPI_tHNjS78
\n\nI first heard The Creggan White Hare on the Dick Gaughan / Andy Irvine album 'Parallel Lines.' Which, to be honest, is an album I've never loved. I mean, what's not to love about a collaboration like that? I love Andy Irvine's music, I love Dick Gaughan's music. It should be my all time favourite. And yet, somehow it doesn't quite work for me. Though it does have a very stately version of Dylan's 'My Back Pages.'
\n\nThere's something about Daoirí's version of 'The Creggan White Hare' that I prefer. It's more robust, or something. I mean, it's unstoppable. That's what it is. It has a sense of fate about it. It's existential, man.
\n\nAs for The Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes...you can find it on the Planxty album After The Break.There's some interesting info here about possible origins:
\n\nhttps://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thepursuitoffarmermichaelhayes.html
\n\nWe also chat at the end of our interview about 'Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, Jimmy Faulkner, Live In Dublin' - an album I first heard thanks, also, to my pal Alex Campbell. I can remember the cover of that album so clearly, and trying to decipher the newsprint while sitting on Alex's bed. We'd listen over and over again, trying to learn the chords of 'Hey Sandy,' until his mum took pity on us and arrived up with a plate of ham sandwiches and mugs of tea. God love her, she had the patience of a saint. Anyway, it's another album that's worth hunting down if you've not heard it already.
\n\nhttps://www.discogs.com/Christy-Moore-Donal-Lunny-Jimmy-Faulkner-Live-In-Dublin/release/2219545
\n\nThanks again Daoirí.
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\n\nThe Moving Bogs/Sydney Bogs
\n(please correct me if this is wrong)
\nLough Erne Shore
\nThe Nightingale
\nThe Mist Covered Mountains/The Gallowglass Jig
\nStór Mo Chroí
...
\n\nSo it won't be a surprise to anybody who's listened to a few episodes already that my first acquaintance with Lough Erne Shore, which Maggie Kate sings in Episode 5 of The Blarney Pilgrims Podcast, was via the Paul Brady and Andy Irvine Purple Album...worth a listen.
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UiBO1MT65g
\n\nAnd here is a great song Maggie performs with John Carty (her dad) and Francis Gaffney:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLKI9B67-M
\n\nThe Mist Covered Mountains, which Maggie plays, got me all nostalgic for Scotland as I was listening to her. And bagpipes. So many bagpipes at the National Celtic Festival Australia Official, some of which you can hear floating on the breeze behind Maggie as she's chatting with us on a sunny Saturday morning. And which put me in mind of other sunny Saturday mornings in Stirling, Scotland, when I worked in a wine and whiskey store and would hear two competing pipers busking from either end of the same street. A very interesting phenomenon, the effects of competing bagpipe music floating on the breeze on one's psyche...
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n72XebBaMeI
\n\nLouis MacNeice's poem Bagpipe Music (what an accent that guy had - you'd hardly guess he was born in Carrickfergus.) Louis worked for a long time at the BBC, and is fondly remembered by Andy Irvine, who knew him from drinking in The George in London, before he (Andy) found his way to Ireland...
\n\nhttps://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter1.html
\n\nMaybe everything, always, eventually comes back around to...you know...Andy Irvine.
\n\nLouise Mulcahy, one of the Mulcahy sisters who Maggie cites as an influence:
\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/louise.mulcahy.330/
\n\nAnd a fascinating clip of (I think) Bryan Rooney - the Godfather:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EopvuL9T8W4
\n\nOne last note, Maggie was chatting about the London Irish music scene...I'm trying to track down an old BBC Radio 4 docco about just that, so hopefully in the next few weeks we'll be able to share it with you.
\n\nSeriously - has a banjo ever sounded so good? Thank you Maggie Kate for a lovely Saturday morning.
\n\nYou can buy Maggie's CDs here:
\njohncartymusic.com/music.asp
\n(BTW, CDs are on sale for €10 with free postage to anywhere in the world for the month of July.)
And you can follow her here:
\nwww.facebook.com/maggie.carty.3
\nwww.instagram.com/maggiekatemusic/
I (Darren) would like to say a massive thank you to Jim Patton, who, after listening to the episode got in contact with me via Facebook to let me know some more info about Maggie's banjo. So, for those of you interested in such things, here are the deets. It is a Jim Patton Banjo. The tone ring is made from 3/8" square brass tube rolled to fit the rim. And the wood is American black walnut. It's a beautiful banjo!
\n\nYou can contact Jim here: https://www.jpbanjos.co.uk/
\nAnd you can follow him here: https://www.facebook.com/jim.patton.946
Thanks again to Una McAlinden for having us at the National Celtic Festival and to everyone that came along to watch and support.
\n\nAlso a HUGE thank you to Dave At Screenwave for becoming a Patreon. You're some sound man Dave!
\n\nIf you want to be sound like Dave, please head over here and shout us a pint - you know we're worth it - www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
","summary":"Maggie Carty plays a few tunes and chats about being immersed in the music all her life, custodianship, and the musicians that made the biggest impact on her playing.","date_published":"2019-07-09T20:00:00.000+10:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/7G751/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9ddef04e-dbd8-4679-9f1e-878576121309/e072ca47-61ac-4f66-8073-ee5908048175.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":60797218,"duration_in_seconds":2500}]},{"id":"431ee62f-3609-4e4d-ac27-b34b15a9996e","title":"Episode 4: Mary MacNamara & Eileen O'Brien Interview (Fiddle, concertina, lilting) - The Blarney Pilgrims Traditional Irish Music Podcast","url":"https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/4","content_text":"\"Nobody listens! Nobody. They think they're listening, but they're not actually listening.\" \n\nRecorded live at the National Celtic Festival in Portarlington, two of Irelands greatest traditional players share their love of the music, teaching and the art of listening. \n\nJoining Mary and Eileen on guitar is previous guest of the show, Gerry Mc Keague. Gerry, actually just came along to listen but when asked by Mary and Eileen to join in, he jumped at the chance. What a legend.\n\n...\n\nMary and Eileen played a selection of tunes, a couple of which we didn't catch the names of. I mean, it was a festival weekend after all...\n\nSo the first set of tunes we don't have names for. \n\nEileen lilts, The Wise Maid. \n\nGeaghan's and Dan Breen's\n\nThird set: The Coming of Spring and The Battering Ram\n\nAnd the last set is Joe Bane's and The Green Gowned Lass \n\nLinks and extras:\n\nThoughts on the origins of East Clare music:\nhttp://www.marymacnamara.net/marys_view.html\n\nHere's a great selection of tunes played by Eileen O'Brien's father, Paddy O'Brien. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOdBdSNl0A&t=125s\n\nFrom 1981, here's Mary MacNamara and Martin Hayes playing John Nauyghton's Reel and Tommy Coen's Reel. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F1_0r8a0Og\n\nAlso if you'd like to know more about Eileen's father, there's a great resourse here: http://www.paddyobrienbook.com/?fbclid=IwAR3OkdxcYh3E1y3hd8bSPTfLlz614CtP0tDRkY5m7V8XjHLbTy6lcdOLMa0\n\n...\n\nThanks so much to Mary, Eileen and Gerry for your time. We absolutely loved this chat.\n\nAlso, a big thank you to Una McAlinden and the National Celtic Festival Australia Official for all your support and inviting us to record at your amazing festival.\n\n...\n\nYou can find Mary here: \nhttp://www.marymacnamara.net/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/mary.macnamara.376\n\nAnd you can find Eileen here:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/eileen.obrien.165\n\n...\n\nIf you liked this episode, please leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, it REALLY helps us getting the podcast out to more people. \n\nYou can also support The Blarney Pilgrims on Patreon:\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims\n\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast","content_html":""Nobody listens! Nobody. They think they're listening, but they're not actually listening."
\n\nRecorded live at the National Celtic Festival in Portarlington, two of Irelands greatest traditional players share their love of the music, teaching and the art of listening.
\n\nJoining Mary and Eileen on guitar is previous guest of the show, Gerry Mc Keague. Gerry, actually just came along to listen but when asked by Mary and Eileen to join in, he jumped at the chance. What a legend.
\n\n...
\n\nMary and Eileen played a selection of tunes, a couple of which we didn't catch the names of. I mean, it was a festival weekend after all...
\n\nSo the first set of tunes we don't have names for.
\n\nEileen lilts, The Wise Maid.
\n\nGeaghan's and Dan Breen's
\n\nThird set: The Coming of Spring and The Battering Ram
\n\nAnd the last set is Joe Bane's and The Green Gowned Lass
\n\nLinks and extras:
\n\nThoughts on the origins of East Clare music:
\nhttp://www.marymacnamara.net/marys_view.html
Here's a great selection of tunes played by Eileen O'Brien's father, Paddy O'Brien.
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOdBdSNl0A&t=125s
From 1981, here's Mary MacNamara and Martin Hayes playing John Nauyghton's Reel and Tommy Coen's Reel.
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F1_0r8a0Og
Also if you'd like to know more about Eileen's father, there's a great resourse here: http://www.paddyobrienbook.com/?fbclid=IwAR3OkdxcYh3E1y3hd8bSPTfLlz614CtP0tDRkY5m7V8XjHLbTy6lcdOLMa0
\n\n...
\n\nThanks so much to Mary, Eileen and Gerry for your time. We absolutely loved this chat.
\n\nAlso, a big thank you to Una McAlinden and the National Celtic Festival Australia Official for all your support and inviting us to record at your amazing festival.
\n\n...
\n\nYou can find Mary here:
\nhttp://www.marymacnamara.net/
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/mary.macnamara.376
And you can find Eileen here:
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/eileen.obrien.165
...
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\n\nYou can also support The Blarney Pilgrims on Patreon:
\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
www.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Maori pianos, famine roads, the Aussie bush to sponsored women in the 1830s. Jamie can really tell a story, not to mention his singing, guitar and concertina playing.
\n\nAs mentioned in the interview, Jamie is one of the performers in The Good Girl Song Project - you can find it here: http://thegoodgirlsongproject.com/
\n\nIn this episode Jamie plays:
\n\nNewry Town (Traditional)
\n\nThe Curragh of Kildare (Traditional)
\n\nMatty (Wally Page)
\n\nTwo Junior Crehan tunes
\n\nDown The Hall on a Saturday Night (Ken McMaster)
\n\nUntitled jig
\n\nI, me, (Dominic), refer in the interview to the story J. M Synge related in the preface to Playboy of the Western World, which I sort of half remembered:
\n\n"When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen some years ago I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen."
\n\nI also seem to remember reading something by Colm Toibin in 'New Ways to Kill Your Mother' that the story was sort of...em...not true. But don't quote me on that. It's a pretty great book though - essays on Irish writers and their relationship with their mothers, Ireland and each other. There's a review of the book here:
\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/26/ways-kill-your-mother-colm-toibin-review
\n\nOddly enough, you'll see in this review, too, a reference to Blake Bailey’s biography of American writer John Cheever. Have to say, it’s a cracking book, even if you don't like biographies. It's a cracker. Grim, funny, horrible, fascinating. So. Yeah...fab.
\n\nFor more information on the New Zealand Wars check out Te Ara,
\nThe Encyclopedia of New Zealand:
https://teara.govt.nz/en/new-zealand-wars
\n\n...
\n\nIf you liked this episode, please leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, it REALLY helps us getting the podcast out to more people.
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\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
www.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Special Guest: Jamie Molloy.
","summary":"The Australian bush, Maori pianos, famine roads and sponsored women in the 1830s. Jamie Molloy can really tell a story, not to mention his singing, guitar and concertina playing. Enjoy!","date_published":"2019-06-06T23:00:00.000+10:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/7G751/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9ddef04e-dbd8-4679-9f1e-878576121309/e43a1cd4-0a51-41a4-9aab-7857b56d41b6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":94100053,"duration_in_seconds":4704}]},{"id":"da7c944e-2d49-4f5d-b2f6-1a10e1ac2894","title":"Episode 1: Gerry McKeague Interview (Guitar, singing) - The Blarney Pilgrims Traditional Irish Music Podcast","url":"https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/1","content_text":"From Belfast rock bands to The Boston Burglar, Gerry McKeague takes us on a musical journey from his childhood home in Ireland to Geelong in Victoria, Australia. If you'd like to get in touch with Gerry you can reach him at https://www.facebook.com/gerry.keague\n\nIn this episode Gerry plays the following songs:\n\nFisherman's Day \n(Written by Brian Connors)\n\nSlieve Gallion Braes \n(Traditional)\n\nVoyage for Ireland \n(Pierre Bensusan)\n\nShipyard Slips\n(David Wilde of The Men of No Property)\n\nPride of the Springfield Road\n(Traditional)\n\nThe Boston Burglar\n(Traditional)\n\nYou can catch Gerry and his sister Mary live as “Innisfayle” at the National Celtic Festival on the weekend of the 7th - 10th June:\n\nhttps://www.nationalcelticfestival.com/artists-2019/2019/2/19/gerry-amp-mary-mckeague\n\nThanks to the players and staff at The Last Jar for the jig we use at the opening and closing of the podcast.\n\n...\n\nIf you liked this episode, please leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, it REALLY helps us getting the podcast out to more people and we absolutely appreciate your help with this.\n\nYou can also support The Blarney Pilgrims on Patreon:\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims\n\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcastSpecial Guest: Gerry McKeague.","content_html":"From Belfast rock bands to The Boston Burglar, Gerry McKeague takes us on a musical journey from his childhood home in Ireland to Geelong in Victoria, Australia. If you'd like to get in touch with Gerry you can reach him at https://www.facebook.com/gerry.keague
\n\nIn this episode Gerry plays the following songs:
\n\nFisherman's Day
\n(Written by Brian Connors)
Slieve Gallion Braes
\n(Traditional)
Voyage for Ireland
\n(Pierre Bensusan)
Shipyard Slips
\n(David Wilde of The Men of No Property)
Pride of the Springfield Road
\n(Traditional)
The Boston Burglar
\n(Traditional)
You can catch Gerry and his sister Mary live as “Innisfayle” at the National Celtic Festival on the weekend of the 7th - 10th June:
\n\nhttps://www.nationalcelticfestival.com/artists-2019/2019/2/19/gerry-amp-mary-mckeague
\n\nThanks to the players and staff at The Last Jar for the jig we use at the opening and closing of the podcast.
\n\n...
\n\nIf you liked this episode, please leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, it REALLY helps us getting the podcast out to more people and we absolutely appreciate your help with this.
\n\nYou can also support The Blarney Pilgrims on Patreon:
\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
www.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcast
Special Guest: Gerry McKeague.
","summary":"From Belfast rock bands to The Boston Burglar, Gerry McKeague takes us on a journey from his childhood home in Ireland to Geelong in Victoria, Australia.","date_published":"2019-06-05T14:00:00.000+10:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/7G751/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9ddef04e-dbd8-4679-9f1e-878576121309/da7c944e-2d49-4f5d-b2f6-1a10e1ac2894.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":68088745,"duration_in_seconds":3404}]},{"id":"700b7bec-34f6-4a64-8bdc-c1f410c65303","title":"Episode 2: Corinn Strating Interview (Flute) - The Blarney Pilgrims Traditional Irish Music Podcast","url":"https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/2","content_text":"Billy Far Out - How sitting on a train with Andy Irvine at 13 years old can change your life forever.\n\nThe Andy Irvine song Corinn talks about is this one, I think: 'Billy Far Out' \nhttps://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/billy-far-out/\n\nWe also talk about the song 'O'Donoghues' which is a bloody brilliant chronicling a time and place. When I listen to this it sort of tugs at something in me to do with the optimism of youth, and dreams of a future in music, and stuff like that. Fits pretty sweetly with Corinn's story of chatting with Andy on the train. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swQZ_avLX0\n\nAnd a great interview, Andy Irvine talking to The Second Captains, my favorite sports podcast that ventures into other areas from time to time. From October 2018.\nhttps://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2018/1021/1005709-andy-irvine-profile-folk-awards/\n\nCorinn mentions her friend, flute maker and musician Michael Grinter, who died tragically at the end of 2018. You can find more information about his life and work at his website, here: \nhttps://www.grinterflutes.com/\n\nSpecial thanks to the Last Jar in Melbourne for helping us out with space to record in and chairs to sit on. \n\n...\n\nIf you liked this episode, please leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, it REALLY helps us getting the podcast out to more people. \n\nYou can also support The Blarney Pilgrims on Patreon:\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims\n\nwww.blarneypilgrims.com\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast\n@blarneyPilgrimsPodcastSpecial Guest: Corinn Strating.","content_html":"Billy Far Out - How sitting on a train with Andy Irvine at 13 years old can change your life forever.
\n\nThe Andy Irvine song Corinn talks about is this one, I think: 'Billy Far Out'
\nhttps://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/billy-far-out/
We also talk about the song 'O'Donoghues' which is a bloody brilliant chronicling a time and place. When I listen to this it sort of tugs at something in me to do with the optimism of youth, and dreams of a future in music, and stuff like that. Fits pretty sweetly with Corinn's story of chatting with Andy on the train.
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swQZ_avLX0
And a great interview, Andy Irvine talking to The Second Captains, my favorite sports podcast that ventures into other areas from time to time. From October 2018.
\nhttps://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2018/1021/1005709-andy-irvine-profile-folk-awards/
Corinn mentions her friend, flute maker and musician Michael Grinter, who died tragically at the end of 2018. You can find more information about his life and work at his website, here:
\nhttps://www.grinterflutes.com/
Special thanks to the Last Jar in Melbourne for helping us out with space to record in and chairs to sit on.
\n\n...
\n\nIf you liked this episode, please leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, it REALLY helps us getting the podcast out to more people.
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\nhttps://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims
www.blarneypilgrims.com
\nfacebook.com/BlarneyPilgrimsPodcast
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Special Guest: Corinn Strating.
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