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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 323 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: Andy Conroy's home area in Loughlynn, Co Roscommon; other musicians in the area; AC began playing the pipes in England; studying the pipes in Dublin with Leo Rowsome; what impressed AC about Rowsome; AC played the tin whistle before playing the pipes]

Conroy, Andy - speech in English
O'Donnell, Michael, Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 323 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: Andy Conroy's style of piping; was influenced by fiddlers as well as pipers; describes his style as 'staccato'; rolls up his trouser leg while playing in order to 'surround the chanter with flesh'; played in Carnegie Hall; worked as a bricklayer; went to the USA in 1952; doesn't speak with an American accent; traditional music in the USA; AC keeps in practice; problems with neighbours when practicing the pipes; introduction to next piece of music]

Conroy, Andy
O'Donnell, Michael, Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 89 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
McArdle, Peter, Louth, speech in English throughout;
fiddle solo throughout;
occasional lilting throughout;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A17

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled [Level low]
2. Jig: Tip in to Bed, Honey
3. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Dash Churn [The Humours of Castlelyons]
4. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tunes already played; music in the performer's family]
5. Jig / Quadrille Tune: Tickle Her Leg with a Barley Straw / Tickle My Leg with a Barley Straw [Information given in speech on track A26 for this tune]
6. Speech: Untitled [About set dancing in the performer's local area in his youth (near Ardee, Co Louth)]
7. Reels: The Boyne Hunt, Miss Monaghan, The Soldier's Joy
8. Speech: Untitled [About dancing; local singers; dances other than sets; introduction to the next piece to be played]
9. Dance Tune: Mrs Simpson Sells Beer / Cock Your Leg up / Cock a Leg up / Shoe the Donkey / Varsovienne
10. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; schottisches as performed in the area]
11. Hornpipe / Schottische: The Boys of Bluehill [The well-known hornpipe, here as played for dancing the schottische locally]
12. Speech: Untitled [About local dances; introduction to the next piece to be played]
13. Dance Tune, Speech: The Larch Fort, Untitled [About the tune just played, with lilting; about local dances; introduction to the next piece to be played; BB says that he is not interested in collecting barn dances but nevertheless requests that an example be played]
14. Barn Dance: Untitled [The Peacock's Feather # 2 (as recorded by Frankie Gavin, fiddle); The Highland Barn Dance (Keane family, Caherlistrane, Co Galway); The Berlin Polka]
15. Speech: Untitled [About local dances; arrival of sets in the area; step-dancing was still alive in the performer's youth; community participation in music; arrival of gramophones and radios in the area]
16. Dance Tune: Untitled
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Quadrille Tune, Speech: The Cake Is on the Griddle / The Cake's on the Griddle, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, The Ould Clay Floor / The Old Clay Floor
20. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; BB explains that up to that point (April 1973) in his dance music collecting project, he had been collecting only double jigs, slip jigs, and reels; not even hornpipes; it is only in the last 6–8 months that he has been picking up hornpipes, polkas, and single reels; he is thus only beginning to collect those tune-types; he thus requests the performer here to 'beat out all the set tunes you can think of']
21. Quadrille Tune: Untitled
22. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, Untitled [The slide 'Scattery Island' is a related tune]
23. Speech, Quadrille Tune / Song Air: Untitled, Oh She Was a Quare One / She Was a Queer One / Mending the Roof
24. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
25. Quadrille Tune: Diggin' the Spuds / Digging the Spuds
26. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; information about 'Tickle My Leg with a Barley Straw' (track A5)]
27. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, The Ould Elm Tree / The Old Elm Tree [Princess Margaret's Fancy]
28. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
29. Quadrille Tune: Untitled
30. Speech: Untitled
31. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, Untitled [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy]
32. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune to be played next, which was the melody of a song as well as a dance tune; with lilting]
33. Quadrille Tune / Song Air: McCarthy / We're off to Philadelphia in the Morning [With speech interlude]
34. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; discussion of other tunes, with lilting]
35. March / Quadrille Tune / [Polka?]: Untitled [Melody of the slide popularly known as 'Denis Murphy's Slide' (= 'The Dark Girl in Blue', CRE 3, # 50), here played in march / polka rhythm]
36. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
37. Quadrille Tune, Speech: The Pigs Ateing Nuts in the Wood / The Pigs Eating Nuts in the Wood [Melody of song 'Jack of All Trades'; played tentatively at first, then repeated; both played on fiddle and lilted], Untitled
38. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, Off the the Bog Wearing Clogs / The Lancers
39. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played & about other tunes, including 'The Swallow's Tail'; about the tune 'I Daren't Tell']
40. Jig: The Old Woman's Pipe / The Mountaineer's March [The Kesh Jig]
41. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; double jigs were played for sets]
42. Quadrille Tune, Speech: There's no Luck about the House, Untitled [Information about the tune just played] [END OF BAND TWO - The recording session with Peter McArdle is continued on tape Breandan Breathnach Reel-to-Reel 90 (1180-ITMA-REEL)]

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