Jack Gilder’s Picks in Irish Traditional Music, Late 2001

Traditional and Adventurous Irish Music with Jack Gilder
KALW fm "Folk Music & Beyond" 10/27/01

INTRO TUNE

Grianán: "Maid of Eirin" [West Winds] Beachgrove / Silver Spear / Hand Me Down the Tackle (4:55) reels

First HOUR

SET 1

Slide: "The Flying Pig" [s/p] Connie the Soldier / Ní fios / Within a Mile of Dublin / Ní fios (4:50) reels

Oisin Mac Diarmada: "Traditional Music on Fiddle, Banjo & Harp" [Cló Iar-Chonnachta] Reavy's / The Milliner's Daughter (3:25) reels

SET 2

Damp in the Attic: "I was.. flying it" [Magnetic] The Sands / Gillespie's / Phelim's Frolics (3:16) hornpipes/reels

Calico: "Celanova Square" [Ossian] Above & Beyond / P. J. Hayes' (7:29)

Cían: "Three Shouts from a Hill" [s/p] Cathal's Favorite / The Long Journey / Inches to Dublin / Brendan McGlinchy's (4:12) jigs/reels

SET 3

Cormac Breatnach: "Whistle & Guitar" [Pressure] The Cotton Grass Flowers / The Killavil / The Old Flail (4:44) slow reel/reels

Damp in the Attic: [Magnetic] "I was.. flying it" Dobbin's Flowery Vale (3:59) song

Tommy Keane: [Kells] "The Wind among the Reeds" The Repeal of the Union / My Sweetheart Jane (2:33) reels

SET4 - 8:19

Na Dórsa: "The Wild Music of the Gael" [s/p] The High Walls of Derry (2:59) song

SECOND HOUR

SET 5

Cían: "The Rolling Wave" [s/p] Humours of BallyConnell / Gan Anim / Matt People's (3:33) hornpipe/reels

John Williams: "Steam" [Green Linnet] Seo Uileo Thoil & The Deer's March (4:29) lullaby/march

Na Dórsa: "The Wild Music of the Gael" [s/p] Unknown / Casey's Pig (2:42) highlands

SET 6

Frankie Gavin: "Fierce Traditional" [Tara] Free and Easy (2:34) reels

Harry Bradley: "Bad Turns & Horse-Shoe Bends" [Outlet] The Merrymaker's Club / The Acrobat (2:50) hornpipes

SET 7

H.Hamilton, S. Creagh & C. Ó Drisceoil: "It's No Secret" [s/p] The Spoons Murder (5:10) song

Dezi Donnelly: "Familiar Footsteps" The Second Star / The Sunshine (4:39) hornpipes

Tommy Keane: "The Wind among the Reeds" the Prominade / The Rocky Road to Dublin (2:43) slip jigs

SET 8

Slide: "The Flying Pig" [s/p] Harvest Fair / Gortantubrid / Taureen Derby (4:32) polkas

Cían: "The Rolling Wave" [s/p] Séamus O' Shanaghan's (4:20) jig/reel

Na Dórsa: "The Wild Music of the Gael" [s/p] Gilles Le Bigot's / Living in Decency (3:28) breton tune/reel

EXIT TUNE

Cían: "Three Shouts from a Hill" [s/p] Rocky's / Laurel Bush (3:01) reels

Sources mentioned included Clare FM, featuring live traditional music 7–9 p.m. (beginning 11 a.m. our time) weekdays. You can find any of these CDs for sale online by Tayberry Music in North Carolina; Custy's Traditional Music Shop in Clare is another good source.