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Canada: Dance With digital objects
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Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 24 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Speech [cheek/gob music for lilting ; types of dances] ; There was an old woman, reel ; Tatter Jack Walsh, double jig ; All the way to Connickmore, single ; Haste to the wedding, double jig ; The girl I left behind me, single ; Untitled, lilting / Patsy Judge, speech in English, singing in English, lilting ; Bride Judge, speech in English (duplicate version. Full conversation available track 1, Aidan O'Hara Collection, Reel-to-reel 895a-ITMA-REEL/CDR)

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 24 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

Speech [parts of dances: (1) first part, required a single, (2) the advance, danced to a single, (3) form the line, danced to a double, (4) chain, danced to a single, (5) close in, (6) round the house, always danced to Pop goes the weasel ; Pop Goes the Weasel, song ; speech [reels were really difficult and only a few people able to do the cheek music for a reel] ; Green grow the rushes-o, reel / Patsy Judge, speech in English, singing in English, lilting ; Bride Judge, speech in English, singing in English

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 24 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Speech [Patsy talks about where the songs came from—Argentia was great for songs. Argentia was a centre for bootlegging. Patsy mentions that everyone would have to sing at a session. He said he never had any trouble learning a song. He said that when he was a child, he always wanted to be with the old people listening to them and that’s how he learned the songs] / Patsy Judge, speech in English
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