An Tower
Tommy Mellett & Neansai Ni Choisdealbha
Irish
Clo Iar-Chonnacht
Released: 31st August 2018
Catalogue Number: CICD205
Barcode: 539015301968
Running Time: 62 mins.
CD | £14.50 | The store is currrently closed for holidays. Stock will be able to be orderd from the 16th April 2024 | |
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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A ten page booklet gives you all the background on the artists plus notes on all the tunes in English and Irish.As to the music, there is a good selection of tunes Jigs & Reels, Barndances & Hornpipes,etc all played with the two main instruments well to the fore, the exception being the one slow air played on solo flute.
1) Reels: Boil the Breakfast Early / The Berehaven
2) Jigs: Geese in the Bog / Up Sligo! ? The Old Geese in the Bog
3) Hornpipes: The Bantry / Flaherty's
4) Slip Jigs: Kitty,Come Down gto Limerick / Patsy Geary's
5) Reels: Bolton Street / Palmer's Gate
6) Barndances: Dances at Kinvara / The Chaffpool Post
7) Marches: The Battle of Geashill / The Pride of Erin
8) Jigs: The Yellow Wattle / The Shoemaker's Last
9) Reels: The Traveller / Billy Brocker's
10) Slip Jigs: Dever the Dancer / Give us
a Drink of Water / A Fig for a Kiss
11) Hornpipes: The Killeigh Hornpipe / The Good-Natured Man
12) Reels: The Whistler of Roslea / The Shoemaker's Daughter / Richard Dwyer's
13) Jigs: The Boys of Coomanore / Farewell to Ballinahulla / Billy McCormack's (Paddy Cronin's)
14) Slow Air: Peacfull Claddaghduff
15) Waltzes: The Jolly Man / The Blue Beetle
16) Hornpipes: McGivney's / The Birds'
17) Reels: Lillies in the Field / The Ballina Lass
18) Jigs:Fraher's / Helvick Head
19) Barndances: If There Weren't Any
Women in the World / Hill of Tara
20) Reels: The Mountain Top / Providence
A ten page booklet gives you all the background on the artists plus notes on all the tunes in English and Irish.As to the music, there is a good selection of tunes Jigs & Reels, Barndances & Hornpipes,etc all played with the two main instruments well to the fore, the exception being the one slow air played on solo flute.
Lineup
Tommy Mellett - Accordion
Neansai Ni Choisdealbha - Flute
with:
John Blake - Guitar,Piano
and Guest Musicians:
Tommy Òg Mellett - Flute Tracks 5,13
Jennifer Mellett - Concertina Tracks 10,19
Paddy O'Fiannachta - Bodhran Tracks 4,17,20