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Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 04 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A1-20, 22-31, speech in English throughout A;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English throughout A and B;
Unidentified performer: speech in English A3 [possibly Sean Murray];
Murray, Sean, singing in English A21;
McCluskey, Malachy, Donegal, speech in English B1 and throughout;
Doherty, Mickey, fiddle solo B1-10, 12-23, 25-38, storytelling in English B11, 15, 18, 24, speech in English throughout B

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: The Glenafton Hornpipe
2. Hornpipes: The Low Level, The Stepping Stone
3. Hornpipe: Untitled
4. Hornpipe: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Reel: Untitled
10. Reel: Miss Patterson's Slippers
11. Speech/Reel: The Black Fanad Mare [The Black Mare of Fanad]
12. Reel: Caher Roe
13. Reel: Broken Bann Bridge
14. Air/Strathspey/Reel: The Land of Hope, The Banks of Dooey, The Sailor's Trip to Liverpool
15. Air: Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo
16. Air: The Harvest Morning
17. Hornpipe: Untitled
18. Hornpipe: The Japanese Hornpipe
19. Reel: The Flowers of Lisadell
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Song: Paidric Pearse's Farewell to Ireland
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Reel: Mill na Maidi
24. Reel: The Wild Maid
25. Jig: Untitled
26. Piece: The Fox Chase
27. Piece: The Postman's Knock
28. Slip Jig: Untitled
29. Jig: The King of the Pipers
30. Reel: The Pinch of Snuff
31. Speech/Air: The Wounded Soldier
32. Strathspey: King George IV
33. Reel: Untitled
34. Hornpipe: Untitled
35. Piece: The Hare and the Hound
36. Highland: The Iron Man
37. Reel: Farley's Reel
38. Reel: Untitled
39. Jig: Untitled
40. Hornpipes: Untitled
41. Reel: Mill na Maidi
42. Speech: The Keady Piper
43. Reel: Untitled
44. Air: Untitled
45. Air: An Droineann Dunn
46. Speech/Jig: The Swaggering Jig
47. Jig: Untitled
48. Piece: The President
49. Speech/Piece: The Four Posts of the Bed
50. Reel: Untitled
51. Reel: Off Goes the Derry Boat
52. Jig: Untitled
53. Jig: Untitled
54. Reel: Peter Street
55. Speech: The Girl who was up to the Fiddler
56. Reel: The Girl who was up to the Fiddler
57. Reel: The Old Oak Tree
58. Reel: Untitled
59. Reel: Untitled
60. March: Untitled [`the march De Valera marched his men through Dublin with']
61. March: Untitled
62. Reel: Untitled
63. Reel: Untitled
64. Reel: Untitled
65. Strathspey: Untitled
66. Strathspey: Untitled
67. Reel: Untitled
68. Reel: Untitled
69. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, incidental speech throughout;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A1-5 [possibly off-disc dubs], B15-17, 19-21;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A6;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A7-13 [possibly off-disc dubs - check against 'Pedlar's Pack'];
Carberry Brothers, Longford, pipes & mandolin (possibly banjo) A14-15;
Byrne, Michael J, Leitrim, speech in English A16, fiddle solo A17-19;
McNiffe, Michael, Longford, fiddle solo A20;
Clarke, Pat, Knockbride, speech in English A21, fiddle solo A21-22;
McCusker Brothers, Armagh, larger instrumental group A23, 26-27;
O'Hare, Kay, singing in English A24;
Unidentified performer, piano solo A25;
Seary, Sean, pipes solo B1-2, speech in English B3;
McAloon, John=;
McAloon, Sean, Fermanagh/Belfast, pipes solo B4-5, fiddle solo B12, pipes in duet B13-14;
Rooney, James, Fermanagh, fiddle in duet B6, 9? [either James or his brother], 10, fiddle solo B7, 11, speech in English B8;
McQuillan, Peter, Monaghan, banjo in duet B6, 9-10;
Rooney, ? [James' brother], Fermanagh, fiddle?;
Rooney, Seamus, fiddle in duet B13-14;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet B18

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled
2. Hornpipe: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]
9. Piece: The Fox Chase
10. Hornpipe: Untitled
11. Jig: Untitled
12. Hornpipe: Untitled
13. Hornpipe: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Jig: Untitled
16. Speech: a few words to his brother in New York
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Hornpipe: Untitled
20. Hornpipe: Untitled
21. Speech/Reel: Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled
23. Reels: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled
25. Hornpipe: Untitled
26. Reels: Untitled
27. Jigs: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Jigs/Reels: Untitled
29. Hornpipes: Untitled
30. Speech: greetings to friends Eileen and Paddy in America
31. Jigs: Untitled
32. Reels: Untitled
33. Jigs: Untitled
34. Reel: The Chattering Magpie
35. Speech: greetings to a sister Eileen in America
36. Reels: Untitled
37. Speech/Hornpipe: The Gypsy
38. Speech/Reel: McKenna's Reel
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled
40. Speech/Jigs: The Setting Sun, The Lark in the Morning
41. Speech/Jigs: Lannigan's Hornpipe, The Kildare Fancy
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Hornpipe: Untitled
44. Reel: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Reel: Untitled
47. Reel: Untitled [Missing track - see 'Notes' field]
48. Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO] [Missing track - see 'Notes' field]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer (Ms Brennan?), singing in English A1-2;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo A3-4;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A5-6;
[Lyons, Tim], singing in English A7-8;
McDermott, Josie, flute solo A9-10, whistle solo A11;
Unidentified performer [possibly Joe Burke?], accordion in duet A12-13;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A14-15;
Unidentified performer, singing in English and Irish A16;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet A17;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A18-19;
McKenna, Joe, Dublin, pipes solo A20-21;
Ac Donncha, Maire?, singing in Irish A22;
Peoples, Tommy, Donegal, fiddle solo A23;
Keane, Sean, Dublin, fiddle solo A24-25

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled
3. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Reels: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
6. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Song: The Creatur/Whiskey Me Boys
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reels: Untitled
11. Jigs: Untitled
12. Jigs: Untitled
13. Reels: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Jig: The Humours of Ballyloughlin
15. Reels: Untitled
16. Song: Untitled
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled
23. Reels: Untitled
24. Reels: Untitled
25. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Tonkin, Phil, announcer, speech in English A1, 10;
Quinnettes, New York, singing in English A4, 9;
Quinnettes=;
Quinn, Sean, fiddle in ensemble A1-2, 4-5, 8-10, fiddle in duet A7;
Quinn, Brian, accordion in ensemble A1-2, 5, 8-10, accordion in duet 3;
Quinn, Kathleen, harp in ensemble A1-2, 5, 8, 10, harp solo A6

Running Order:
1. Programme Start: Announcement over music
2. Jigs: Untitled
3. Polkas: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled
5. Air/Piece: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled
7. Air: Untitled
8. Medley: Untitled
9. Song/Air/March: Scotland the Brave
10. Medley/Speech: Announcement over music

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Kenny, P, fiddle;
Brady, fiddle;
Unidentified instrumental group A1-2;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A3-10;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet A9-10, 12-14, flute solo A11;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A15-23

Running Order:
1. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled
3. Jigs: Untitled
4. Jigs: Untitled
5. Jigs: Untitled
6. Reels: Untitled
7. Reels: Untitled
8. Reels: Untitled
9. Speech/Reel: Untitled
10. Jigs: Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled
14. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
15. Speech/Song: Untitled
16. Song/Speech: Untitled
17. Song/Speech: Untitled
18. Song/Speech: Untitled
19. Song: Untitled
20. Song: Untitled
21. Song: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 20 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, speech in English A1-4, 20-23;
Rowsome, Leon, pipes solo A1-2, pipes duet A19, pipes A24?;
Rowsome, Liam, fiddle in duet A3, fiddle solo A20-23;
Rowsome, Leo, speech in English A4, pipes solo A5, pipes duet A19,;
Unidentified performer(s), singing in English A6-10;
Unidentified performer, concertina in trio A11, concertina in duet A12-18;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A11

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: Untitled
2. Air/Jig: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Speech: Leo sends greetings to all the musicians in America
5. Reels: Untitled
6. Scales on Piano with Vocals
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Reels: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Reels: Untitled
16. Reels: Untitled
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Jigs: Untitled (end clipped)
19. Hornpipes: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Hornpipes: Untitled
22. Speech/Reels: Untitled
23. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
24. Reel: Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 23 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Larry, Armagh/New York, fiddle solo A2-9;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle A10, singing in English A10

Running Order:
1. Incidental Noise
2. Reel: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Hornpipe: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Jigs: Untitled
9. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Reel/Song: 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 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 39 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, spoken introductions A2-;
Quinnettes=;
Quinnettes, instrumental group A2, 8-9;
singing in English A4, 9;
accordion in group A2, 5, 8-9, accordion in duet A3;
fiddle in group A2, 4-5, 8-9, fiddle in duet A7;
harp in group A2, 8, harp solo A6

Running Order:
1. Tone
2. Speech/Jigs/Tone: Untitled, Untitled
3. Speech/Pieces/Tone: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
4. Speech/Song/Tone: It's Heaven Around Galway Bay [When they told me that Ireland was heaven...]
5. Speech/Pieces/Tone: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech/Air/Tone: Untitled
7. Speech/Air/Tone: Untitled
8. Speech/PieceTone: Untitled
9. Speech/Song/March/Strathspey: Scotland the Brave [Hark when the night is falling...], Untitled, Untitled [END OF STEREO BANDS]

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