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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

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