Blarney Pilgrims Irish Music Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Irish Music Podcast”

Episode 86: Rus Bradburd Interview (Fiddle)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +1100

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.

In this episode Rus plays:

Westfort Gals
The Pikeman's / Down The Glen (Marches)
Farewell To Whiskey / The Dark Girl In The Blue Dress
Leaving Lerwick (Paddy Jones Slow Air)
Kerry Polka / Purple Lillies

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You can find out more about Rus on his website here:
https://www.rusbradburd.com/

You'll find Rus's book 'Paddy on The Hardwood' here or ask about it at your local book shop:
https://unmpress.com/books/paddy-hardwood/9780826340276

Paddy Jones 6 YouTube videos. Absolutely worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMlutJrUsOZnj84sQ-aVbsTNpUxqw7pt

During the interview Rus mentions Carl Hardebeck. This is a great piece about him here:
The Blind Bard of Belfast: Carl Gilbert Hardebeck:
https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/the-blind-bard-of-belfast-carl-gilbert-hardebeck-1869-1945/

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Episode 83: SMASH HITS 2020 (PART 3)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +1100

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.

The tunes (I think we've got 'em all...)

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - Kitty Lie Over
Una Monaghan - Nana Nora's and The Clean Player

Jason Rouse - The Famous Ballymote / Scotch Mary
Emma Lewis - Dwyer's Jig / O'Sullivan's March / untitled jig
Joanie Madden - The Cat's Meow
Rita Farrell - The Happy Days of Youth and Colonel Rodgers' (often known as McKenna's 1 & 2)
Daithí Gormley - Last Night's Fun
James 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
Sean Lally - The May Morning Dew / Humours of Ballyloughlin
Cathy Custy - A Jig and the Cliffs of Moher
Hajime Takahashi - Unnamed Tune
Catherine McEvoy - Bánchnoic Éireann Ó

Ciaran Kelly - The Showman's Fancy and The Galway Hornpipe.
Cameron Mather - Fergal O’Gara’s / The Bag of Spuds / The Boys of ‘45
Áine Tyrrell - In This House
Sean Mathews - Welcome to Ballsgrove
Liam Thomas Bailey - The Broken Parts + The Maids of Mitchelstown
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - The Deepest Breath

Rita Farrell - The Drunken Gauger / The Humours of Ballingarry / The Girl From the Big House
Tola Custy - Love at the Ending
and
Tola 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.

Seriously - without you all, we wouldn't be doing this. All the best from us to you for 2021. Hang in there.

Love

Darren and Dom

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Episode 80: Joanie Madden Interview (Whistle)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:00:00 +1100

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.

And the tunes!

The Palm Tree (Billy McComiskey) and a tune from Brendan Mulvihill
The Cat's Meow
Cailín na Gruaige Doinne (The Girl with the Brown Hair)
A reel and
Hynes's March

You can find out about the 'Cherish The Ladies Concert Christmas In Ireland' here.
http://cherishtheladies.com/

And you can buy tickets from here:
https://boxoffice.mandolin.com/collections/cherish-the-ladies-christmas-in-ireland

And Joanie's website has loads of extra good stuff:
https://joaniemadden.com/

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Joanie Madden: thank you.

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Episode 79: Rita Farrell Interview (Uilleann pipes, flute)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +1100

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.

The tunes:
Two jigs - Mama's Pet and Hinchey's Delight
Alexander's Hornpipe and The Kildare fancy
Two McKenna Reels
The Sailor's Cravate, I'm Waiting For You and Bonny Kate (from the playing of Tommy Reck)
The Drunken Gauger
and
Lovely Leitrim (thanks Mr & Mrs Farrell)

Every week we are amazed by how much fun we've had - seriously.
And then the next week we are amazed all over again.

Rita, thank you.

P.s. For anyone interested in the London Facebook group mentioned in the episode you'll find it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IrishMusicLondonGroup

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Episode 78: Liam Thomas Bailey Interview (Fiddle, five-string banjo, singing)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +1100

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.

The tunes:
Castle Kelly's and Brelydian (Bob Brozeman and Donal O'Connor)
Two Bird Stone
The Broken Parts + The Maids of Michelstown
Sinead Maire’s Jig (Cillian Vallely) and the Sporting Pitchfork
Lucy Farr's and 'The 99'

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You 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

You can buy Liam's music and band (Two Bird Stone) from here: https://liamthomasbailey.com/

And you can follow him here:
https://www.facebook.com/liam.bailey.338
https://www.instagram.com/liamthomasbailey/
https://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/

Thanks Liam. This was a cracker.

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Episode 77: Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black, Gerry McKeague and a Huge Thank-You (5-string banjo, guitar, singing)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:00:00 +1100

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.

Tunes:
Darren plays Sandy River Belle and Morphine
Dominic sings Please Tell My Brother
and
Gerry 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!

Photo album: https://imgur.com/a/WOS0G
Reddit 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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Episode 73: Sean Mathews Interview (Sean-nós, twelve string guitar, lap dulcimer)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +1100

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.

This 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.

In this episode Sean sings:
Sweet Dooley Gate
Annan Waters
Welcome To Ballsgrove
The Commuter's Song
Turns and Tolls

To buy Sean's music, particularly his new single 'Welcome To Ballsgrove" go here:
https://seanymathews.bandcamp.com/

Visit his website here:
www.seanmathews.com/

To follow him go here:
www.facebook.com/seanmathewsmusic
www.instagram.com/seany.mathews

For those that believe seeing is believing, here are some photos of the school Darren spoke about... Grim!
https://www.facebook.com/humansofstmarysdiocesan/photos/pcb.1911664279087736/1911664112421086
https://www.facebook.com/humansofstmarysdiocesan/photos/pcb.1911664279087736/1911664099087754
https://www.facebook.com/humansofstmarysdiocesan/photos/pcb.1911664279087736/1911664202421077

Sean, this was an absolute blast and much needed. Thank you again.

...

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Episode 72: Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin Interview (Sean-nós, concertina, flute)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +1100

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.

The tunes:
Two reels - The Green Bunch of Rushes and The Merry Sisters of Fate
Tá na Páipéir dhá Saighneáil
A song Eoghan learned from his father and grandmother - Meiriceá
The Monaghan Jig
and
Eoghan's song, The Deepest Breath

You can find the video for The Deepest Breath here, and it's unmissable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjPHKJaCb38&feature=emb_logo
Directed 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.
Pre-order it here:
https://eoghanultan.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR0pR0UxdIctwvOacAzaW1sDF4enXl6FNQbLrEKKp-6qoXCD47_lmZPR-V8

And you can find a link to People Before Profit here:
http://peoplebefore-profit.com/

Eoghan, thank you.

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Episode 66: Karen Dolan Interview (Banjo, mandolin)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +1000

'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.'

We 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).

So - 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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI8zgIX4GA8

Karen's online tuition course is here:

https://www.udemy.com/user/karen-dolan-2/

A few pics of Dylan and Santana at Slane Castle, 1984:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bob+dylan+slane+castle&atb=v137-1&iax=images&ia=images

And here's the Queen of Country herself, Philomena B:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgmeS-HcHB8

The tunes:

Caliope House and Fi's Frolics
The Maids of Castlebar and Bunker Hill (Reels)
Padeen O'Rafferty
The Gold Ring
and Killavil Reel

Karen - brilliant - thank you.

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And that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.

Darren & Dom

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Episode 60: Daithí Gormley Interview (Accordion)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +1000

It doesn't get better than this.

'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.

'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.

Daithí's album with Catherine McHugh is
‘Fiddling without a Bow – Irish Traditional Music on Button Accordion’
https://daithigormley.bandcamp.com/

And his book 'Fiddlers of Sligo Tunebook' compiled with Oisin Mac Diarmada, is available here:
https://custysmusic.com/search?q=Daith%C3%AD+gormley&type=product

The tunes Daithí plays:

Last Night's Fun
The Templehouse Reel and an unnamed reel, from the playing of Michael Joe and Larry MacDonagh
The Spike Island Lasses and Farewell to Leitrim
Tell Her I Am and Tatter Jack Walsh
My 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,
'Still Life.' It's shot through with sorrow and love, and a savouring of the last of life.
https://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.

If 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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=7ZVWIELHQQY&feature=emb_logo

To see some of the Irish Music Legends work go here:
instagram.com/irishmusiclegends/
facebook.com/irishmusiclegends

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And that, my friend, is a hell-of-a-nice thing to do.

Darren & Dom

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Episode 49: Ewen Baker Interview (Fiddle)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Tue, 12 May 2020 23:00:00 +1000

'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.'

If 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.

Ewen’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.

In this episode Ewen plays the following tunes:

Merrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife
Brian Boru's March
St Anne’s Reel
Sheehan's Reel
The Australian Waters
Mama'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:

https://ewenbaker.com.au/store

'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:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/paddy-fitzgerald-cd

As always, the episode is free to download or stream from everywhere you get podcasts:

Our website: https://blarneypilgrims.fireside.fm/49
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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

Ewen, thanks for a cracking chat.
And with that, we’re away.

Darren & Dom

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Episode 47: Mick Doherty Interview (Fiddle)

Darren O'Mahony, Dominic Black — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:00:00 +1000

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.
Johnny 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:
https://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.

In 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.

We'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:
https://bit.ly/3bZ1dBi

And please check out Mick Doherty's CD recorded with Rob Zielinski. It's essential listening really:
https://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.

We hope you're all keeping well, and we'll see you next week.

Darren and Dom

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