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Clement Sweeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 9 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 3-25, B1-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A2, accordion accompaniment A15;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group C1;
Unidentified performers, whistle solo C2 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish C3 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, speech in English C3-4 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, whistle in trio C4, 6 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio C4, 6 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio C4, 6 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish C5 (off-air dubs);
[O'Cannainn, Thomas], speech in English C7 (off-air dub);
Na Fili, instrumental group C7-8 (off-air dub);
Unidentified performer, singing in English C9-10;
Unidentified performer, whistle in quartet C11;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in quartet C11, fiddle in duet C12;
Unidentified performer, banjo in quartet C11, banjo in duet C13;
Unidentified performer, singing in English C14-15;
Planxty, instrumental group C16 (off-air dubs);
[MacMathuna, Ciaran], speech in English C16-24;
Crotty, Mrs, Clare, concertina C17-18 (off-air dubs);
Crehan Family, The, instrumental group C19, 21 (off-air dubs);
Mulqueen, Anne, singing in English C22 (off-air dubs);
Potts, Tommy, Dublin, fiddle solo C23 (off-air dubs);
Ceoltoiri Laighneann, instrumental group C24 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet C25, C27, C30, fiddle accompaniment C26;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group, singing in English C29;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet C30;
Unidentified performer, whistle C28;
Unidentified performer, singing in English C26;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish C31;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group D1-4;
[Band three contains material dubbed from discs - not copied to CDR];
Unidentified performer, speech in English E1-32, F1-7, whistle solo E1-32, F1-7

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1. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
2. Waltz/Song: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled (interrupted)
4. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
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31. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
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Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Danny Smith

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Danny Smith

Performers:
Smith, Danny, accordion, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about musicians in the locality in 1910, learning music from aunt Nora O'Brien
2. Jig/Speech: Leave it Down Easy [The Killaloe Boatman]
3. Speech: talk about Tommy Ward, Globe single row accordions, house and barn dances, local sets, sets in Philadelphia
4. Jig/Polka: Untitled, The Three Little Drummers, The Three Little Drummers
5. Slides/Speech: Cock of the North, Patsy Gan Naire
6. Reel/Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [Johnny when You Die]
7. Highland Fling/Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle
8. Highland Flings/Speech: The Eel in the Sink, The Blackberry Blossom, talk about local dances
9. Barndances/Speech: Untitled, talk about dancing a barndance
10. Barndances/Speech: Casey Jordan, The Chicken Reel
11. Barndance/Speech: Turkey in the Straw
12. Highland Flings/Speech: Untitled
13. Fling/Speech: The Flanagan's Chase the Banshee, talk about local dances
14. Polka/Speech: All the Way to Galway
15. Polka/Speech: Untitled
16. Polkas/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tunes used for local dances, lilt of 'The Irish Washerwoman'
17. Hornpipes/Speech: The Stack of Barley, The Rights of Man, The Derry Hornpipe
18. Hornpipe/Reel/Speech: The Carabhat (The Stack of Wheat), The Bird in the Tree
19. Polka/Speech: Jenny Lind
20. Waltz/Speech: Pull Down the Blind, Lurgan Stream ?
21. Speech: talk about singers, going to Philadelphia in 1927 (returned 1969), life in America, listening to the Victrola, records available at the time
22. Reels: The Tap Room Reel, The Moving Bog
23. Speech: talk about PJ Conlon, John Kimmel, accordion maker Frank Walters, description of his accordion
24. Reel/Speech: The Graff-Spey
25. Reel/Speech: Miss McLeod's Reel, talk about the style of American musicians
26. Speech: talk about playing in Ceili Bands for dances, description of sets danced in Philadelphia, highland flings, lilt of 'Shoe the Donkey', one steps
27. Katie Conors (medley)/Barndance/Speech: Katie Conor, The Arkansas Traveller, talk about the tunes used for the 'Katie Conors', examples of reels played as highland flings
28. Flings/Speech: Jenny Tie your Bonnet, Upstairs in a Tent [The Devil in the Kitchen or The Ivy Leaf]
29. Highland Flings/Speech: The Eel in the Sink, The Blackberry Blossom
30. Highland Flings/Speech: Handy Andy, Untitled, talk about musicians
31. Flings/Speech: The Moneymusk

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Paddy O'Donoghue

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Paddy O'Donoghue

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Paddy, Clare, flute (metal Boehm) solo throughout, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about music at home and in the area, local musicians Paddy Mac, Patrick Moloney, learning music, making a set of pipes, Martin Rochford, the following reel
2. Reel: Johnny Allen's Reel
3. Speech: talk about his father's playing style, East Clare style with tunes in awkward keys, gramophone used for house dances, Paddy Canny playing in house sessions in 1930's, brothers and sisters musicians, local musicians, concertina player Delia Mac Namara, Sean Reid bringing Clare musicians together, Mrs Galvin, Patrick Kelly, Mickey Cooleen and the following tune
4. Reel: Mickey Cooleen's Reel
5. Speech: talk about the following tune
6. Hornpipe: The Stage
7. Speech: talk about the previous tune, Paddy Moloney, concertina players Mrs Dinan and Mrs Dooley
8. Reel: The Star of Munster
9. Speech: talk about the previous tune, ornamentation used by the older musicians, schottisches and barndances, step dance 'The Britches'
10. March: Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
11. Speech: talk about the previous tune, playing for dancers, contrast between older and modern styles of dancing, clergy opposition to house dances, crossroad dances, gambling in houses, prosecutions for gambling, police informers

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Paddy O'Donoghue

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Paddy O'Donoghue

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Paddy, Clare, flute (metal Boehm) solo, track 1, 3, fiddle 4solo, track 5, 7, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: Peace in the 90's
2. Speech: talk about the previous tune
3. Hornpipes: The Trip to Fanore, The Arrival of the Swallows
4. Speech: talk about the previous tunes
5. Reels: The Three-in-a-row
6. Speech: talk about the previous set of tunes
7. Jigs: The Stray Cat, A Night to Remember
8. Speech: talk about the previous tunes

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Paddy O'Donoghue

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Paddy O'Donoghue

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Paddy, Clare, flute (metal Boehm) solo, track 1, 3, 5, 7, fiddle solo, track 9, 11, 13, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Polka: Untitled
2. Speech: talk about changing from open-hole to keyed-system flute, members of the Tulla Ceili Band, dance bands, Sean Reids set of pipes, playing with other ceili bands, recruiting Paddy O'Brien to play accordion with the Tulla Ceili band, accordion players
3. Reels: Aine's Invitation, Trip to Peterswell
4. Speech: talk about the previous tunes, composing tunes
5. Reel: Jackie Small's Visit
6. Speech: talk about composing tunes, learning tunes from O'Neill's books, his own repertoire
7. Reels: The Boys of Ballycuneen, The Mighty Potholes
8. Speech: introduction to following tunes
9. Reels: Counting the Coppers, The Missing Fiddle
10. Speech: talk about learning fiddle, introduction to the following tunes
11. Jigs: The High Winds, The First Day of January
12. Speech: talk about the following tunes
13. Reels: The shores of Lough Breda ?, The Woods of Ballinahinch

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / PJ Hayes

Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / PJ Hayes

Performers:
Hayes, PJ, fiddle, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: talking about learning music, Paddy Canny, Ballinahinch Ceili Band, Tulla Ceili Band, various band members in the 1940's, recording in Dublin 1959 [All-Ireland Champions Violin ?]
2. Hornpipes: The Humours of Tullycrine, Untitled [Mikey Callaghan's]
3. Speech: talk about the previous tunes, Francis O'Neill collecting tunes in the area from fiddle player 'Johnny Allen', Paddy Mac, Pat Canny, local styles, concertina player 'John Naughton', tunes played in different keys
4. Reels: Rolling in the Barrel, The Tap Room
5. Speech: talk about the previous tunes, local versions of more common tunes
6. Reel/Speech: The Maghera Reel, talk about this tune and the following tune
7. Hornpipe/Speech: Mrs Dwyers, talk about the tune
8. Reels/Speech: P Joes, The Shores of Lough Graney [The Pullet wants a Cock], talk about the tunes
9. Reel/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tune, Joe Bane
10. Reel/Speech: Joe Banes [version of Nellie Donovan], talk about the tune, talk about some of the tunes O'Neill collected
11. Reel/Speech: The Humours of Scarriff, talk about the tune, fiddle players Patrick Moloney and John Downs (Sacho)
12. Jig/Speech: Sacho's Jig [The Connachtman's Rambles], talk about the tune
13. Speech: talk about travelling musician Sacho, musicians in the area, concertina player Micho Moloney (Micho Jack), flute player Mick Moronay, Mickey Kulleen ?, popularity of the concertina in the area, piper Martin Rochford, The Dorans, farm house dances, dance halls, trips to America with the Tulla Ceili Band
14. Reels/speech: Untitled (Johnny McGreevy's), Untitled (P J Hernon's)
15. Speech: talk about Johnny McGreevy, talk about making recordings and radio broadcasts, difference in style between Joe Cooley and Paddy O'Brien, members of the ceili band
16. Reels: Untitled, talk about the tunes

Comhluadar concert, 2002 [sound recording] / Antóin Mac Gabhann

Performers:
Mac Gabhann, Antóin, fiddle A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 22, 24, 26;
speech in English A3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25;
[unidentified performer], speech in English A1

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Comhluadar concert, 2002 [sound recording] / Chris Droney

Performers:
Droney, Chris, speech in English A1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21;
concertina A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22

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