The Blackbird

Easter Sunday

A lovely reel by the late Paddy O'Brien. I was lucky to learn many of his tunes while studying with his daughter, Eileen at the University of Limerick for my MA in Irish traditional music. What a fantastic tunesmith!

3 Deer and a Hare

I ordered Liz and Yvonne Kane's album Side by Side recently, and it arrived in the mail yesterday. So today I learned one of Liz's compositions from this album.

Jenny's Welcome To Charlie

I'm short on time so I'm just posting this and then packing up for a music festival in Jackson, Wyoming!  Woot!  I'll see you at the Sherpa Fest!

Promenade

I don't think this lovely little tune is played enough.  I could listen to it all day.  I learned it from Kevin Burke (again... he's my favorite fiddler right now) from a 1978 recording with Michael O'Domhnaill. (check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7XzqjndH-Q)

Rakish Paddy

So this one time at fiddle camp...

No really.  One day at fiddle camp a friend sat down with his tenor banjo and recorded a bunch of tunes for me to learn.  This was one of them.  It's a nice real with a lot of opportunities for rolls and things that make it sound fancy.

Peacock's Feathers

So this project is still in its fledgling stages and I have only vague ideas of what I should do to sass it up a bit... a theme song?  a better camera?  Definitely I'd like a better microphone than the one built in my computer.  It's obnoxious.  But anyway, if you have some grand ideas, let me know!

Dinny Delaney's

I haven't done a slide yet, so here you go! This slide can also be played as a jig. It has been recorded by lots of folks but a great recording is Kevin Burke's "If the Cap Fits."

Sally Gal

Some people call this tune "Tie Your Dog Sally Gal," but Bruce Molsky said this is because on a very old recording people misheard "This song is titled Sally Gal" for "This song is Tie Your Dog Sally Gal."  It goes by both.