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Performers:
Munnelly, Tom, speech in English, track 2, 11, 17, 22, B5
Armagh Pipers Club (Brian Vallely, Feargal French, Eamon Curran, Tiarnan Dinkin, Mark Burns, Mark Donnelly), pipes in ensemble, track 3, 10
Vallely, Brian, Armagh, speech in English, track 4, 6-10
French, Feargal, Armagh, pipes solo, track 5
Curran, Eamon, Armagh, pipes solo, track 6
Donnelly, Mark, Armagh, pipes solo, track 8
Ketev, Kiril Stefanov, Bulgaria, Bulgarian pipes solo, track 12-16
MacDonald, Allan, Scotland, speech in English, track 18, smallpipes solo, track 18-21, singing in gaelic, track 21 (singing off-mic)
Dinkin, Tiarnan, Monaghan, pipes solo, track 22-23, B1-4, speech in English, track 22-23, B1-4
Duncan, Gordon, Scotland, warpipes B6-9
Vallely, Eithne, Armagh, speech in English B10

Running Order:
1. Start: background noise
2. Speech/Tuning: Introduction to the Concert and the Armagh Pipers
3. Slip Jigs: Untitled (recording broken off momentarily mid-way)
4. Speech/Tuning: Introduction the performers of the Armagh Pipers
5. Jigs: Untitled
6. Speech/Hornpipes: Untitled
7. Speech: the importance of teaching in the Armagh Pipers' Club
8. Reels: Untitled
9. Speech: the individual achievements of the group
10. Reels/Speech: Toss the Feathers, The Mountain Road
11. Speech: the founding of Na Piobairi Uilleann, introduction to Kiril Stefanov Ketev
12. Piece: Untitled
13. Piece: Untitled
14. Piece: Untitled
15. Piece: Untitled
16. Piece: Untitled
17. Speech/Tuning: Introduction to Allan MacDonald
18. Speech/Marches (Quicksteps): The 92nd Highlanders Welcome to Edinburgh, The 92nd Highlanders March, Catriona Og, Thingles? Weeping
19. Speech/Strathspeys/Reels: Miss Lyle, (title given)?, Whistling Donald, Dancing Feet
20. Speech/Air/Waltz?/Tuning: Untitled, Lud Lud Low? (comp. Allan MacDonald)
21. Speech/Song/Reel?/Piece: Untitled, Contrary, ? (title given)
22. Speech/Tuning: thanks to Allan and introduction to Tiarnan Dinkin
23. Jigs/Speech: I Buried my Wife and Danced on Top of Her, The Old Hag with the Money
24. Speech/Reel: Alexander's, McFadden's Handsome Daughter
25. Speech/Waltz/Reels: Midnight on the Water, Colliers, The Woman of the House
26. Speech/Slides: Untitled
27. Speech/Reels: The Wise Maid, Untitled
28. Speech/Tuning: Introduction to Gordon Duncan, Tuning
29. Jigs: Untitled
30. Reels: Untitled
31. March/Stratspeys/Reels: Untitled
32. Jigs/Reels: Untitled
33. Speech: end of first-half of concert [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Munnelly, Tom, Dublin/Clare, speech in English, track 1, 5, 10, 15, B2, 6
Megarrity, Stephen, Armagh, warpipes, track 2-4
Matthews, Ceri Rhys, Wales, Welsh pipes in duet, track 6-9, speech in English, track 6-9
Shorland, Jonathan, Wales, Welsh pipes in duet, track 6-9, speech in English, track 8-9
Mulligan, Neillidh, Dublin, speech in Irish, track 11, 15, speech in English, track 11, 13-15, B1, pipes solo, track 12-15, B1
MacDonald, Angus, Isle of Skye, warpipes B2-5, speech in English B4
Keenan, Paddy, Dublin/Boston, speech in English B6, 8, 10-11, pipes B6-11, low whistle B8

Running Order:
1. Speech/Tuning: Introduction and background noise
2. Air/Jigs: Untitled
3. March/Strathspey: Untitled
4. Reel/Hornpipe/Reels: Untitled
5. Speech: Introduction to Ceri Rhys Matthews and Jonathan Shorland
6. Air/Dance Tunes/Speech: Untitled, The Black Cockrel's Tail, The Old Man of Pencarda?
7. Speech/Dance Tunes: The Red Piper's Conceit, This is a Love as Big as the Oceans, The Red Piper's Strain
8. Speech/Piece/Wedding Marches: Ned Poe's Farewell?, Untitled
9. Speech/Piece/Jigs: Untitled, ? Solomon, Two Plats of Flaxen Hair
10. Speech/Tuning: Introduction to Neillidh Mulligan
11. Speech/Tuning: Greeting and introduction to tunes
12. Reels: The Scholar, The Stony Steps
13. Speech/Hornpipes: Dwyer's Hornpipe, The Fairy's Hornpipe
14. Speech/Jigs: Packie Duignan's, Clancy's Drean
15. Speech/Air: Uir Chill an Creggan
16. Speech/Reels: Bar na Cuille (comp. Neillidh Mulligan), The Dublin Reel, The Pinch of Snuff
17. Speech/Tuning: Introduction to Angus MacDonald
18. March/Strathspeys/Reels: Kilbowey? Cottage, Untitled
19. Speech/Tuning/Air/Jigs/: The One Who Climbs the Brae, Inspector Campbell of Ness, Tubeular Peat
20. Air/Strathspeys: Mo Gilla Mar, Untitled
21. Speech/Tuning: Raffle and Introduction to Paddy Keenan
22. Jigs: Untitled
23. Speech/Air: Untitled (comp. Paddy Keenan)
24. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, The Harvest Home
25. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
26. Speech/Jig: Out on the Ocean (in two keys) [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Cherry, Rab, compere
Molloy, Padraig, Donegal, speech in English, fiddle duet, fiddle solo
McGinley, Derek, Donegal, speech in English, fiddle duet, fiddle solo

Running Order:
1. Speech: Where did you start playing?; Highland: The Rising Sun (Eiri na Greine)
2. Speech: Where did those people get those tunes?; Highland: Untitled
3. Speech: What sort of age were you when you started playing?
4. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles
5. Speech: So, from those houses where was your next stop?; Jig: Untitled
6. Speech: Well, you're down as far as Paddy Hiudai's house; Highland: Johnny Boyle's
7. Speech: So, from ?
8. Reel: Con Greaney's
9. Speech: The Malinbeg fellows; Barn dance: Untitled [Kafoozalum ?]
10. Speech: So, on your travels...; Reel: Sheehan Reel ?
11. Speech: ?; Air: The Traveller's ?
12. Speech: So, Padraig, from Loch Inse...; Jig: The Irish Washerwoman [Donegal version]
13. Speech: In Carrick where were the other musical families based?; Highland: Untitled
14. Speech: What sort of Teelin tunes would you have?; Highland: Jimmy Lyons' Highland
15. Speech: From Teelin, obviously if you keep on going...; Mazurka: Untitled
16. Speech: I suppose from ?; Reel: Untitled
17. Speech: Question from audience; Highland: Miss McLeod's

Performers:
Mamin Cajun Band, instrumental group; singing in English; singing in Irish; singing in French; speech in English =
Monaghan, Seán, singing, track 2-3, 8, 11, washboard
Fahy, Sue, singing, track 1, 6, 10, 14, fiddle
Ni Chanainn, Nuala, singing, fiddle
Fitzgerald, Jimmy, singing, track 13, guitar
Rohan, David (Sammy), singing, track 7, 12 guitar
Gunning, Paul, Castigniari 4-stopper melodeon (D), Hohner 3-row (B/C/C#) accordion
Nolan, Conor, bass
Jameson, Tom, drums

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: Bosco Stomp
2. Speech/Song: Beidh Aonach Amarach
3. Speech/Song: Zydeco (tune trad, lyrics by Sean Monaghan)
4. Speech/Waltz: Chez Seychelles
5. Speech/Stomp ?: Lake Arthur Stomp
6. Speech/Song: Cotton-eyed Joe
7. Song/Speech: Cajun Girl (David 'Sammy' Rohan)
8. Song/Speech: Bruce's Tunes (tunes trad, learned from recording by Cajun accordion player 'Bruce Daigrepont', lyrics by Sean Monaghan)
9. Tune/Speech: Tex-Mex Tune
10. Song/Speech: Ay! Te Dejo en San Antonio
11. Speech/Song: Peigin Leitir Mhoir
12. Song/Speech: Jambalaya (Hank Williams)
13. Speech/Song: Stormy Sky (Daniel Lanois)
14. Song/Speech: Qu'elle etoile
15. Speech/Waltz: Philippe Bruneau's Waltz (Bruneau)

Performers:
Mamin Cajun Band, instrumental group, singing in English and Irish, speech in English
Mamin Cajun Band =
Monaghan, Sean, singing, track 1, 3, washboard
Fahy, Sue, singing, fiddle
Ni Chanainn, Nuala, singing, fiddle
Fitzgerald, Jimmy, singing, guitar
Rohan, David (Sammy), singing, track 2, guitar
Gunning, Paul, Castigniari 4-stopper melodeon (D), Hohner 3-row (B/C/C#) accordion
Nolan, Conor, bass
Jameson, Tom, drums

Running Order:
1. Song/Speech: Out on the Ocean (tune trad, arranged by Mamin Cajun Band with lyrics by Sean Monaghan)
2. Speech/Song: Bonaparte's Retreat
3. Speech/Song: An Saint Patrick (also known as 'Boat Song') (lyrics by Sean Monaghan)

Performers:
Byrne, Dermot, Donegal, accordion in duet, track 1-4, 6-9, 11, accordion solo, track 10 (Saltarelle 3-voice B/C accordion using 2 treble voices)
Lewis, Liam, fiddle in duet, track 1-4, 6-9, 11, fiddle solo, track 5, speech in English throughout
O'Briain, Garry, singing in English with group instrumental, track 7, speech in English, track 7, 10

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled
2. Speech/Hornpipes: Untitled, Galway Bay
3. Speech/Jigs: Molloy's [Whelan's], Sliabh Bloom [version of 'The Frost is all Over' ?]
4. Speech/Reels: Untitled
5. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
6. Speech/Reels: The Gooseberry Bush, Bunker Hill
7. Speech/Song: My Dearest Dear
8. Jig: Knocknagow
9. Speech/Reels: Untitled, The Broken Pledge, Forget Me Not [Gerry Cronin's]
10. Speech/Hornpipes: Mac is Back for the Crack, The Japanese Hornpipe
11. Speech/Reels: Eileen Curran, Gilbert Clancy's [Sean Reid's], Paddy Lynn's Delight

Speech: Untitled [Part of a lecture on the uilleann pipes, containing the following topics: history of the pipes; emergence of the pipes at the beginning of the 18th century; Ledwidge (?) described a regulator as an innovation in 1790; O'Farrell (from Clonmel) wrote a tutor in 1803 / 1804; a tutor had already been published by Geoghegan in London in 1746 for a forerunner of the uilleann pipes known as the 'pastoral bagpipes'; O'Farrell published two other books, including the 'Pocket Companion'; until 1903 / 1904 these pipes were known as the 'union pipes', thereafter as 'uilleann pipes'; Grattan Flood proposed that in the reference to 'woollen pipes' in 'The Merchant of Venice', the word 'woollen' was a corruption of 'uilleann', meaning elbow; Grattan Flood's false etymology is the source of the use of the word 'uilleann' to refer to these pipes; in the 18th century the instrument was played by high and low society; Lord Rossmore in Monaghan, lord of 40,000 acres, was an excellent performer; piper Jackson published tunes, including Jackson's Morning Brush, in 1799; instrument played widely until 1850, when the quadrilles and sets began to supersede the older dances, and the concertina and melodeon began to be popular; a revival movement began in the 1890s, by which time the former professional pipers who survived were old and in poorhouses; as part of the revival, pipers' clubs were formed in Cork and Dublin; the piping tradition then in the same state as the harping tradition had been at the close of the previous century; Eamonn Ceannt and others of the Dublin pipers' club employed Nicholas Markey (born Meath? Louth?) to teach the pipes; Markey a pupil of Billy Taylor; tradition thus kept intact; the music for the pipes consists of jigs, reels, and hornpipes; jigs are extant in Ireland since the 16th century; reels since the latter part of the 18th century; first reels to appear in Ireland are Scottish reels like Lord McDonald, Lady Mary Ramsey, and Mrs McLeod; the hornpipe is an English form, imported about 1780; hornpipes, however, played in Ireland are Irish; Robbie (Hannan?), one of the pipers due to play after the lecture, plays a set of pipes made 150 years ago, thus representing the sound that people listened to in the 18th century; in Louth, there are accounts of pipers in the works of Carleton, esp. in his stories of the Irish peasantry from c. 1820; Carleton writes of the pipers Gaynor (possibly Dan Gaynor, attested elsewhere) and Cassidy; the Taylors (half-brothers Billy and Charlie) were the sons of a good piper; the Taylor family emigrated to the USA in 1870, where Billy and Charlie became famous pipemakers in Philadelphia; they died c. 1900; before emigrating, the Taylors taught Nicholas Markey and Pat Ward] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breathnach, Breandan - speech in English

Speech: Untitled [Part of an interview with Breandan Breathnach by Paddy Glackin for the radio programme 'The Long Note', RTE Radio 1, with occasional input from the programme producer Harry Bradshaw. Topics: continuation (from a previous tape) of a discussion about the aims of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (CCE); a survey (of music instrumentation?) taken (within CCE?); CCE should not concern itself with the button accordion or the harp; guitar banned from CCE competitions because of its sexual symbolism; founding of Na Piobairi Uilleann (NPU) in 1968; initial discussions with Seamus McMahon, Martin Talty, and Sean Reid in Wilson's pub after a Fleadh Ceoil in Miltown Malbay; first Tionol arranged in Bettystown; Pipers Club in Thomas St, Dublin gave financial support; 50 to 60 pipers attended, including some from the USA; Seamus Ennis gave an impressive recital; before he began to play instructed everybody to turn on their tape recorders; after playing, handed his pipes to Willie Clancy, then on to anybody who wanted to play them; next was Liam O Floinn; this generosity uncharacteristic of older generation of pipes, who would not play if they thought anybody else could learn their music; one piper on his deathbed bit the reeds so that no-one else could play his pipes; another sent his wife to the door before he played to check that no-one was listening; Seamus Ennis had no trade secrets; at the first Tionol, Sean Reid proposed the founding of an organisation; this was supported by Leo Rowsome and Seamus Ennis; BB was assistant secretary of CCE at that time, and aware of problems with lengthy arguments at committee meetings; constitution of NPU restricted to 294 words; membership of NPU restricted to practitioners; great asset was the tremendous ability of Seamus Ennis, with his willingness to share his music, and thus to bind the organisation to the long tradition that he had through his father, with the connection to Nicholas Markey and the Taylor brothers; phonograph cylinders that Francis O'Neill had sent to Father Henebry in 1908 were discovered to be still extant in Cork; BB quotes Henebry's judgement of Touhey's version of 'The Shaskeen Reel'; other cylinders discovered with music from pipers born before the Famine, for example Jem Byrne and Dinny Delaney; unfortunately music from Martin Reilly was indecipherable; a bulletin, An Piobaire, was published, containing historical information and transcriptions from pipers; Ceol an Phiobaire and its contents; Wilbert Garvin produced pipe-making manual; first printing sold out very quickly; alleged errors in the pipe-making manual and BB's reaction to this accusation] [END OF BAND ONE]

Bradshaw, Harry - speech in English
Breathnach, Breandan - speech in English
Glackin, Paddy - speech in English