Name: Traditional Music of Ireland
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SKU: 63722
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Traditional Music of Ireland

Rating

Album: Traditional Music of Ireland
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Maids Of Galway	More Info...	0:03
2)	The Munster Cloak	More Info...	0:03
3)	The Convenience Reel/Gan Ainm/Hills of Offaly/Guns of the Magnificent Seven	More Info...	0:05
4)	Bach Gavottes (From Suite No. 6 in D Major)	More Info...	0:03
5)	Lock the Door/Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself/What Ail's You?	More Info...	0:04
6)	Waltz From Transtrand	More Info...	0:02
7)	Castle Ceili's/Pay the Girl Her Fourpence/Miko Russell's	More Info...	0:04
8)	McDermott's Fancy/Swans Among the Rushes/Chicago/The Swallow's Nest	More Info...	0:04
9)	Baltimore Salute/The Lansdowne Lass/Jackie Coleman's	More Info...	0:03
10)	The Ebb Tide/The Chorus Reel	More Info...	0:03
11)	Aggie's Waltz	More Info...	0:03
12)	Grandmom's	More Info...	0:03

Album: Traditional Music of Ireland
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Maids Of Galway	More Info...	0:03
2)	The Munster Cloak	More Info...	0:03
3)	The Convenience Reel/Gan Ainm/Hills of Offaly/Guns of the Magnificent Seven	More Info...	0:05
4)	Bach Gavottes (From Suite No. 6 in D Major)	More Info...	0:03
5)	Lock the Door/Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself/What Ail's You?	More Info...	0:04
6)	Waltz From Transtrand	More Info...	0:02
7)	Castle Ceili's/Pay the Girl Her Fourpence/Miko Russell's	More Info...	0:04
8)	McDermott's Fancy/Swans Among the Rushes/Chicago/The Swallow's Nest	More Info...	0:04
9)	Baltimore Salute/The Lansdowne Lass/Jackie Coleman's	More Info...	0:03
10)	The Ebb Tide/The Chorus Reel	More Info...	0:03
11)	Aggie's Waltz	More Info...	0:03
12)	Grandmom's	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Personnel: Seamus Egan (tres, banjo, mandolin, flute, whistle, pipes); Mick Moloney (guitar); Siobhan Egan (fiddle); Rosalyn Briley (harp); Jimmy Keane (accordian, electronics); Rory Ann Egan (accordion); Lori Cole (piano).
Recorded at Morning Star Studios, Ambler, Pennsylvania. Includes liner notes by Mick Moloney and Seamus Egan.
Over two decades after this album was recorded and released, it's rather funny to look at the cover photo of Seamus Egan in his cargo pants with his feathered haircut and sweet, unassuming smile. In the intervening years he became a superstar producer of modern Irish folk groups and a highly sought-after studio musician, with a wardrobe tending toward black leather and no more on-camera smiles. In 1986 he was a new face on the scene, a remarkably talented teenage multi-instrumentalist who had already won all-Ireland titles on four different instruments. On this album he plays flute, tres, mandolin, tenor banjo, uilleann pipes, and whistle, all of them not only with surprising virtuosity but also with an even more surprising maturity and assurance. His repertoire is unusually broad as well, and this program includes not only the predictable Irish reels and jigs but also a set of gavottes by J.S. Bach, a Swedish waltz, and another from Newfoundland. The synthesizer on the Bach set is a bit awkward, but just about everything else on this album is an unqualified delight. Highlights include that Swedish waltz, which is gently gorgeous, and a medley of reels here entitled "The Maids of Galway." ~ Rick Anderson