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The Killasser Flute - Jerry O'Sullivan

The Killasser Flute - Jerry O'Sullivan

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An Fheadóg Mhór Chill Lasrach - The Killasser Flute

The genesis of this project started with a gathering of family, neighbours, and friends for a house session at the the home of Mary Hanley in Dunmaynor, Killasser on August 20, 2017.  Killasser flutemaker Michael Cronnolly presented me with a fully keyed D flute as an unforeseen gift on that evening. His outstanding generosity and neighbourliness was further shown a few days later when Michael also presented me with the additional gift of an F flute. I made him the promise that I would make a recording with them, since this was the only way I could think of to acknowledge his extraordinary kindness.

The repertoire for this recording is as local as possible to the parish of Killasser. I planned that ten of the twenty three tracks would feature the music of the Killasser Flute and Drum Band using the Cronnolly F flute (the impetus for Michael becoming a flutemaker in the first place were the childhood memories of the Killasser Band, of which his father Billy was a member).  The remaining thirteen tracks would feature the Cronnolly D flute.

Tracks

  1. Flogging Your Top / Michel Coleman's Maid on the Green (jigs)
  2. God Save Ireland / Amhrán na bhFiann (marches)
  3. Paddy Sean Nancy's reels 
  4. A New Song on the Rocks of Baun / The Three Flowers (marches)
  5. Mary Hanley's Tune (slow waltz)
  6. Men of the West / St. Patrick's Day (marches)
  7. The Lovely Sweet Banks of the Moy (air)
  8. The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls / Shane O'Neill's March (marches)
  9. Thady Stenson's / Kate Neachtain Tighe's (polkas)
  10. Moonlight in Mayo / Home to Mayo (waltzes)
  11. O'Donnell Abu / Kelly the Boy from Killanne (marches)
  12. George Brabazon / Hugh O'Donnell (O'Carolan)
  13. Do Bhíos-sa Lá i bPort Láirge / Gurteen Cross (marches)
  14. Granny's Rare Reel / John Burkey's Reel
  15. Clare's Dragoons / A Nation Once Again (marches)
  16. Goldfield Jig / The Old Killavil (jigs)
  17. The Foggy Dew / The Wearing f the Green (marches)
  18. My Love is but a Lassie Yet / Dad and Aunt Mary's polka (polkas)
  19. Let Erin Remember / The Memory of the Dead (marches)
  20. The Killasser Reel / The Tiernunny Lasses (reels)
  21. Fainne Geal an Lae / The Minstrel Boy (marches)
  22. Píobaire Thrian A' Baintrigh (The Piper of Treenabontry) / The Cloonfinish Mazurka (air / mazurka)
  23. Lady of Knock

 

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