Brothers Hugh (concertina) and Colm (accordion) Healey are joined by Fergal Scahill (guitar/bodhran), Paul O'Driscoll (double bass), Noel O'Donoghue (flute), Karol Lynch (banjo) and Michael O'Connell (pipes) for a great album. Kevin Crawford provides the sleeve notes in which he says that the CD is "... a wonderful collection of tunes from Clare and beyond ... I hope you get as much mileage out of it as I have". More information at http://www.healymusic.com.

# Posted on February 22nd 2004 by Aidan Crossey

That should, of course, read Healy above.

I should also mention that the brother, Eric (fiddle), joins the lads on track 10.

# Posted on February 23rd 2004 by Aidan Crossey

Macalla na hOige

I got this album several days ago. Some conservative listeners would be a little embarrassed by loud, percussive guitar accompaniment of Fergal Scahill on some tracks, but it's a great debut recording of the brothers, nonetheless. I love not only their lovely Clare style playing but their choice of the tunes: a nice mixture of standard session tunes and less common ones.

My favourite is the track 10 joined by a fiddle and a flute. It really sounds like a live session recording.

# Posted on June 19th 2004 by slainte

Errata

The second tune of the track 7 is actually called Mick Finn's (aka The Killavil Reel): http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1723

The second tune of the very last track is more often associated with Andy McGann: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3278

# Posted on July 14th 2004 by slainte

Here's the link to the first tune of track 3: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4171

# Posted on April 8th 2005 by slainte

Track 5 - JP Daly's

Does anyone know anything about the first tune on track 5, called JP Daly's ?!?!

# Posted on December 9th 2007 by charliechamo