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Ronnie Wathen Collection

  • RWA-18791
  • Collection
  • [1970s?]
Collection comprises reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Ronnie Wathen of musical and song performances around Ireland. Collection includes field recordings featuring performers such as Séamus Ennis, Seán Corcoran, and Seán Potts, and dubs of commercial material and radio broadcasts.

Wathen, Ronnie, 1934-1993

Ronnie Wathen Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Michael, Clare, concertina solo A1–10, 13–28;
speech in English occasionally throughout A1–28;
Wathen, Ronnie, speech in English occasionally throughout A1–28, B12;
Gallagher, Noel, Dublin, pipes solo A11–12;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in English A29, 31, 33–35;
B1, 3, 6–7, 9–11;
pipes solo A30, 32–3, B1–2, 4–6, 8, 10–11;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A35;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B12–14;
speech in English B13–14;
Gallahar, Maeve, Dublin / Mayo, speech in Irish B15;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo B15;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo B16–17;
Corcoran, Sean, Louth, singing in English B18;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo B19–20

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Version of Sporting Nell]
2. Reel: P. J. Moloney's [The Killavil Fancy]
3. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the previous and next pieces of music], Paidin O Raifeartaigh [Mistitled? The Boys of Tandaragee]
4. Reel: Untitled [Version of The Ashplant]
5. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Buttercups and Daisies [Maggie Pickens], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
6. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Green Grow the Rushes - O, Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Version of The Otter's Holt?], Untitled [Discussion about the next piece of music to be played]
9. Reel, Speech: The Earl's Chair, Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
10. Reel: Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
11. Reel: Sporting Paddy
12. Fling / Barn Dance: Green Grow the Rushes - O
13. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The Frost is All Over], Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled [The Ashplant]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Longford Collector]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Top]
17. Reel: Untitled [Version of The Green Groves of Erin]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley]
20. Reel / Fling: Untitled [Recorded by the fiddle duet Michael Coleman and Packie Dolan on a 78rpm commercial disc in a selection of flings called Miss Ramsey]
21. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
22. Jig: Untitled [Version of 'Have a Drink with Me' (DMI, # 20)]
23. Dance Tune: Untitled (short, incomplete)
24. Hornpipe: Untitled
25. Jig: Untitled
26. Reel: Untitled [The Green Field of Rossbeigh]
27. Reel: Untitled [The Green Gowned Lass]
28. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Maid on the Green], Untitled
29. Speech: Untitled [About the uilleann pipes; consonant sympathy; theoretical re the pipes] [Tracks A29–37 and B1–11 were recorded at a presentation by Seamus Ennis at Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, 25 July 19For a different recording made at the same event, see 1187-ITMA-REEL and 1188-ITMA-REEL]
30. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
31. Speech: Untitled [About Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; performer's father learns Pat Ward's Jig; theoretical about jigs; introduction to 'Ask My Father']
32. Single Jigs: Ask My Father, Pat Ward's Jig
33. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fairy's Hornpipe
34. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Fairy Reel
35. Speech: Untitled [Story: background to the jig 'The Gold Ring']
36. Jig: The Gold Ring
37. Speech, Air, Slip Jig: Untitled, The Lament for the Fox, The Foxhunter's Jig [END OF BAND ONE]
38. Speech: Untitled [Includes instrument tuning; introduction to the piece of music to follow; the difference between a set dance and a long dance]
39. Long Dance / Set Dance: The Ace and Deuce of Piping
40. Speech: Untitled (short, incomplete) [Story about the origin of a tune]
41. Jigs: Untitled [The Lark's March; The Geese in the Bog (with tonic note D)], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Groves Hornpipe]
43. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], O'Dwyer's Hornpipe
44. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music; the previous night to this recording was the first time that the performer played on his own pipes the reel he is about to play; asks the audience for help in identifying the tune]
45. Reel: The Kind Maid [The Wise Maid]
46. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music]
47. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Continuation of the introduction to the next piece of music], The Flags of Dublin, The Dublin Reel
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Bucks of Oranmore
49. Reel, Speech: Untitled [All the Ways to Galway], Untitled [Information about the piece of music just played]
50. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Ballykett Courthouse], Untitled [Information about the piece of music just played]
51. Jigs: The Maid in the Meadow [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig], An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue
52. Speech: Jack and the Beanstalk [Folktale, with occasional whistle-playing in the background]
53. Reel: Untitled [The Oak Tree]
54. Air, Jig: Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin], Untitled [Jig derived from the air just played; composed by Junior Crehan]
55. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
56. Air: Untitled [Se Fath Mo Bhuartha]
57. Air: Untitled [Mo Ghra-sa an Jug Mor is E Lan] [END OF BAND TWO]

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