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Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 36 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Larry (playing on tracks as yet unspecified);
Gardiner, Bobby, accordion in duet A1-12 (off-disc dubs);
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, incidental speech in English A13;
Unidentified performer, accordion A13-17 (off-disc dubs);
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A18-22, 24-26;
Unidetified performer, accordion in duet A23 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, speech in English B1;
Hawes, Mary, speech in English B2, singing in English B2-7;
Hawes, Neil, Judith Anne and Lawrence, singing in English in various combinations B2-7 (occasionally with others);
Unidentified performer, singing in English B8;
Unidentified performers, fiddle solo B9-13, 18-24, 28-39;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet B14-17;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet B14-17;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B25-26 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio B27 (off-air dub);
Unidentified performer, banjo in trio B27 (off-air dub);
Unidentified performer, pipes in duet B40;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet B40;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B40, singing in English with fiddle B41;
Unidentified performer, fiddle with singing in English B41

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitiled, Untitled (speed change midway through set)
2. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
3. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
4. Airs played as Waltzes: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Set Dance: Untitled (skips) (unfinished)
7. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped) (skips)
8. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (skips)
9. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
10. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (skips)
11. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
12. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
13. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
14. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (skips)
15. Waltzes: Untitled, Untitled
16. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (skips)
17. Reel: Untitled (unfinished)
18. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Reel: Untitled
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
24. Reel: Untitled
25. Hornpipe: Untitled
26. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
27. Speech: Introduction to singers
28. Speech/Song: Silent Night
29. Song: Mamma's Little Baby loves Shortenin' Bread
30. Song: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
31. Song: Jingle Bells
32. Song: (`'Deck the halls with ?? of holly')
33. Song: (`I've been working on the railroad...')
34. Song: (`Oh there's not a soul down on the corner...')
35. Air: Come All Ye Faithful
36. Reel: Untitled
37. Air: Untitled (unfinished)
38. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
39. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
40. Air: Untitled (interesting version of `The Boys from the County Armagh')
41. Air: Untitled
42. Air: Untitled
43. March: Untitled (beginning clipped)
44. Reel: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Fragment/Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled
47. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
48. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel Fragment: Untitled (beginning clipped)
51. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
52. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
53. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
54. Air: Untitled
55. Jig: Untitled
56. Reel: Untitled, Untitled
57. Air: Untitled
58. Jig: Untitled
59. Reel: Untitled
60. Reel: Untitled
61. Hornpipe: Untitled
62. Reel: Untitled
63. Hornpipe: Untitled
64. Reel: Untitled
65. Jig: Untitled
66. Fragment/Speech: Untitled, general chat
67. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 35 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English A1-4, 6-7, 11 (off-air dubs), B1, 3-11, 13-16;
Powerly (Pawney?), Ian (Eoin?), fiddle in duet A1-4 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A5;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A5;
McAndrew, Hector, Scotland, fiddle in duet A6-11 (off-air dub);
Unidentified Performer, fiddle in duet A12- (off-disc dubs);
Reynolds, Paddy, fiddle duet B1-2, 5, fiddle solo B3;
McGann, Andy, fiddle duet B1-2, fiddle solo 9-10, 15-16;
O'Bierne, Lad, fiddle solo B4, fiddle duet B5;
Wynne, Martin, fiddle solo B6-7;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, fiddle solo B8;
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle solo A11-14;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B17-20

Running Order:
1. Speech/March/Strathspey/Reel: ?, ? Brig, The Gladstone Reel
2. Speech/Air/Strathspey/Reel: Neil Gow's Lament, Captain ?, Lake Dumbrake
3. Speech/Slow Strathspey/Reel: The Marquess of Huntley's ?, Jimmy Shearer
4. Speech/Air: Margaret Ann Robinson
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
6. Speech/Airs: Mrs Jameson's Favourite (comp. Charles Grant), The Fallen Hero (comp. Neil Gow)
7. Speech/Airs: J.L. Forbes of Course (comp. Peter Milne), Marr Castle (comp. Scott Skinner)
8. Air: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled (unfinished)
10. Air/Reel/Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
11. Air/Strathspey/Reel/Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
12. Piece: Untitled
13. One-steps: Untitled, Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
15. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
16. Marches: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
17. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
18. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
19. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
20. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
21. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
22. Air/Strathspey: Untitled, Untitled
23. Hornpipe: Untitled
24. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
25. March/Piece: Untitled, Untitled (version of `The Four Posts of the Bed')
26. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
27. Speech/Reel: Music in the Glen (end clipped)
28. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
29. Speech/Reel: Lad O'Bierne's Favourite
30. Speech/Reel: Val Gara [Fergal O'Gara]
31. Speech/Mazurkas?: Untitled
32. Speech/Reel: The Lads of Laois
33. Speech/Reel: Untitled
34. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
35. Speech/Reel: Trim the Velvet
36. Speech/Reel: Untitled
37. Speech/Reel: The Flax in Bloom
38. Hornpipe: Untitled
39. Speech/Reel: Roaring Mary
40. Speech/Reels: Maud Miller, The Skylark (beginning clipped)
41. Speech/Hornpipe: The Fiddler's Contest
42. Speech/Reel: The King of the Clans
43. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
44. Reel: Untitled
45. Jig: Untitled
46. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 34 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English A1, 3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-14, 18, 20-24, 27-44, B1, 3, 6-24, 26-28;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, fiddle solo A2-7, fiddle in ensemble A12-13, fiddle in duet A18-21;
Reynolds, Willie, Athlone, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12-13;
Doran, John, Dublin, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12;
Keenan, John, Dublin/Wicklow, accordion in ensemble A12-13;
Dowling, Jim, Dublin, ???? in ensemble A12-13;
Potts, Sean, Dublin, flute in ensemble A12-13;
Brown, Billy, accordion solo A14-17, accordion in duet A18-21;
Coen, Tommy, Galway, fiddle in quartet A23-26, fiddle in duet A27, 29-32, fiddle solo A28;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A29-32;
Kelly, Lar, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A27;
Cummins????, Jimmy, Galway, accordion in quartet A23-26;
Green, Tommy, Longford, flute solo A34-37, whsitle solo A28 (aged 11yrs);
Mulhere, Brendan, accordion solo A39-40, B8, accordion in duet A41-42,;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A41-42;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A43-44;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English B2, fiddle in quartet B3-6;
Ryan, John, ? in quartet B3-6;
Brogan, Tommy, concertina in quartet B3-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion in quartet B3-6;
McMahon, ????, singing in English B7;
Reilly, Mrs, Cavan, singing in English B9-10;
McAndrew, Hector, Scotland, fiddle in duet B12-15 (off-disc dubs);
Hardy, Bill, Scotland, fiddle in duet B16-17 (off-disc dubs);
Turkington, Tom, Tyrone, fiddle in duet B19-23;
Taggart, Fergus, fiddle solo B25-27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd
2. Reel: Boys of the Lough, [The Boys of Ballisodare]
3. Speech/Reel: McFadden's
4. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Speech: Introduction to Willie Reynolds and John Doran
9. Jig: The Battering Ram
10. Speech/Reels: The Maid of Mount Cisco, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd, Willie Reynolds, John Keenan, Jim Dowling and Sean Potts
12. Reel: Tim Maloney, The Lady of the House [=The Woman of the House]
13. Speech/Reels: Reavy's, Cooley's
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere - some of the following tracks may also be compositions of Martin Mulhere)
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel/Speech: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
22. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Coen, Eddie Maloney, Lar Kelly, Jimmy Cummins????
23. Speech/Reels: Amanda Rollins, Greig's Pipes
24. Speech/Reels: Joe Burke's, Untitled
25. Reel: The Moving Cloud
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Speech/Reel: The Hunter's Purse (end clipped)
28. Speech/Reel: Maud Miller
29. Speech/Reel: Coen's Reel (comp. Tommy Coen) (interrupted)
30. Speech/Reel: The Limestone Rock
31. Speech/Reel: Eddie Maloney's Reel (comp. Eddie Maloney)
32. Speech/Reel: For the Sake of Old Decency
33. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Green (aged 11yrs)
34. Speech/Reel: Brearty's
35. Speech/Reel: Dillon's Fancy
36. Speech/Jig: O'Neill's
37. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's?
38. Speech/Reel: (named)
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Brendan Mulhere)
40. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
41. Speech/Reel: Untitled
42. Speech/Reel: Andy McGann's
43. Speech/Jigs: Untitled (performer introduced - difficult to make out)
44. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
45. Speech: Introduction to Radio Eireann broadcast featuring Louis Quinn
46. Speech: Interview with Louis Quinn from a Radio Eireann programme
47. Speech: Introduction to....
48. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped), performers back-announced
51. Speech/Song:Bold Jack Donoghue
52. Speech/Reel: Untitled
53. Speech/Song: The Home we Left Behind
54. Speech/Song: The Shores of America
55. Speech: Introduction to off-disc dubs of Hector McAndrew
56. Speech/Air/Strathspey/Reel: The Braes of..., The Glenlivet, The Gladstone Reel
57. Speech/Slow Strathspey/Reel/Hornpipe: The Deanbrig of Edinburgh, The Deanbrig Reel, The Banks
58. Speech/Strathspeys/Reels: Stirling Castle, Miller of Mearn, The Ould Wheel, Freddy Peggy
59. Speech/Air/Strathspeys, Reel: The Laird of Brae...., Sandy Cammon, Fogus Morrison, The Left Handed Fiddler
60. Speech/March/Strathspey/Reels/March/Strathspey/Reel: Scotland the Brave, The Laird of Drumblair, Speed the Plough, The De'il Among the Tailors, The Lass of Bon Accord, The Marquess of Huntley's Farewell, The Ten Pound Fiddle
61. Speech/Polkas/Strathspesy/Reel: The Bluebell Polka, Peter Head Polka, The Balkan Hills, Lady Mary Ramsey, Pretty Peggy
62. Speech: Introduction to Tom Turkington and Billy Adams
63. Speech/Reels: Shehan's, Miss McLeod's
64. Speech/Jig: The New Town Hall (comp. Tom Turkington) (end clipped)
65. Speech/Air: The Lark in the Clear Air
66. Speech/Hornpipes: Smith's Favourite, The Tailor's Twist
67. Speech/Reels: McSweeny's, The Ivy Leaf, Reavy's
68. Speech: Introduction to Fergus Taggart
69. Reel: Untitled
70. Speech/Reel: Mulhere's No 5 (comp. Martin Mulhere)
71. Speech/Reel: Untitled
72. Speech: Final greetings to Louis Quinn and family [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 33 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Mulvihill, Charlie, accordion in trio A1-24;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A1-24

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled
2. Jig: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Jig: Untitled
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Jig: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled
11. Jig: Untitled
12. Jig: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Jig: Untitled
14. Jig: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Jig: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Jig: Untitled
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 32 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, fiddle in duet A1-13, fiddle solo A14-15, fiddle in ensemble A26-34, incidental speech in English A28-31, 33-34;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A16-18, 20, 25, accordion in duet A19, 22, 24;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A16-18, fiddle in duet A23;
Unidentified performer, banjo in trio A16-18, 20, 25, banjo in duet 19, 21;
Quinn, Kevin, New York, whistle in ensemble A26-34;
Quinn, Brian, accordion in ensemble A26-34;
Reavy, Joe, speech in English A27, ? in ensemble A26-34

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled
2. Reel: Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Hornpipe: Untitled
7. Hornpipe: Untitled
8. Hornpipe: Untitled
9. Reel: Untitled
10. Jigs: Untitled
11. Jigs: Untitled
12. Jigs: Untitled
13. Reels: Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
16. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
17. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
18. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Jig: Untitled
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Hornpipe: Untitled
22. Hornpipe: Untitled
23. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
25. Jig: Untitled (clipped)
26. Reels: Untitled (clipped)
27. Speech/Reels: The Old House, O'Leary's Ireland
28. Speech/Reel: Brefni O'Reilly
29. Speech/Reel: The Glen Fiddler
30. Speech/Hornpipe: Atha Mor
31. Speech/Reel: On the Way to Shercock
32. Hornpipe: Untitled
33. Speech/Hornpipe: The Fair Ground
34. Speech: The Ceilier [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 31 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, meledion in duet A1;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A2-9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A2-9

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled (clipped midway)
2. Reels: Untitled (clipped midway)
3. Jig: Untitled (end clipped)
4. Hornpipes: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Barndance: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Jigs: Untitled
7. Reels: Untitled (clipped midway)
8. Reels: Untitled (clipped midway and at end)
9. Reel: Untitled (clipped midway and at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 30 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
[Peoples, Tommy], fiddle solo A1-2;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle duet A3, 5-7, 9-10, 13-17, fiddle in duet A4, fiddle solo A8, 12, 18, fiddles in trio A11;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A19

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
3. Reel: Untitled (tracks A3-18 are non-commercial off-disc dubs)
4. Hornpipe: Untitled
5. Hornpipe: Untitled (end clipped)
6. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled (end clipped)
8. Jig: Untitled
9. Reels: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled (end clipped)
11. Reels: Untitled (end clipped)
12. Jig: Untitled
13. Hornpipe: Untitled (end clipped)
14. Hornpipe: Untitled (end clipped)
15. Reel: Untitled (end clipped)
16. Hornpipe: Untitled (end clipped)
17. Reel: Untitled (end clipped)
18. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Reel/Fragment: Untitled (clipped) (+ fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 29 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in trio A1-2, 4, 6-8, 12-13, fiddle in duet A3, 9-10 (all tracks off-disc dubs);
Sherlock, Roger, Sligo/London, flute in trio A1-2, 4, 6-8, 12-13, flute in duet A5, 11 (all tracks off-disc dubs);
Unidentified performer, whistle A14

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled
3. Air: Untitled
4. Hornpipes: Untitled
5. Reels: Untitled
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reels: Untitled
8. Reels: Untitled
9. Hornpipe: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Reels: Untitled
11. Reels: Untitled
12. Jigs: Untitled
13. Jigs: Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 27 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, fiddle solo A1-5, 7, 28-30, fiddle duet A6, speech in English A20-23, 25, 29-33, fiddle in trio A25-27;
Quinn, Larry, Armagh/New/York, fiddle solo A8-18, speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer (Berry?), accordion A19;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle duet A6 (possibly Larry Quinn), fiddle solo A33-34;
Quinn, Brian, New York, accordion in trio A20-1, accordion solo A31, speech in English A20, 31;
Quinn, Sean, New York, fiddle in trio A20-1, 25-27, fiddle in duet A23-24;
Quinn, Mary Lou, piano solo A22, 32

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled
2. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
3. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Jig: The Idle Rogue (beginning clipped)
6. Reel: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Jig: Untitled (unfinished)
9. Reel: Untitled
10. Speech/Reel: The Baltimore Reel
11. Reel: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Speech/Reel: The Spey in Spate
14. Hornpipe: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Strathspey: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Speech/Air: The Town of Galway [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Speech/Air: Louis Quinn introduces the performers, Believe Me if all Those Endearing Young Charms
21. Speech/Air: Galway Bay
22. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
23. Speech/Hornpipe: The Mathematician
24. Air: Untitled
25. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
26. Hornpipes: Untitled
27. Jigs: Untitled
28. Reel: Untitled
29. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled (comp. Ed Reavy)
30. Speech/Reel: The Baltimore Reel
31. Speech/Air/Speech: My Old Dog and Me, The Red River Valley, greetings to Larry Quinn from Brian Quinn, the Irish Musicians Association's boat-trip
32. Speech/Piece: Untitled
33. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
34. Reel: Untitled
35. Reel: Untitled
36. Reel: Untitled (fragment only) (level very low) [END OF BAND TWO]

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