Recordings of the "Session of the Century"

Over the last few months I did share some rare recordings from the Willie Clancy festival. None of those recordings belongs to any commercial release and it’s not the average stuff you can buy on iTunes or in a store. In my opinion those recordings deserve an audience and should serve educational purposes. I also wanted people to help me with identifying the tunes from those tapes. (I am referring to this old thread : https://thesession.org/discussions/33006). KidOnTheMountain did an impressive identification work but he did not identify tunes from the 3 recordings below !

I guess people were a little bit scared to download the mp3 from my DropBox because of viruses so I joined all the mp3 together and put them on my Soundcloud account. People can now listen them directly on the Internet without downloading them :

https://soundcloud.com/ralexhassle/session-of-the-century-1

https://soundcloud.com/ralexhassle/session-of-the-century-2

https://soundcloud.com/ralexhassle/session-of-the-century-3

I would be extremly glad if some poeple could help me with identifying the tunes. Soundcloud allows listeners to leave comments at specific points in the waveform.

Enjoy,
Ralex

Thanks!

I can’t seem to access track 1

Track 2:

Set 1 (reels)
i. The Turnpike https://thesession.org/tunes/917 (ending only)
ii. Dinky’s https://thesession.org/tunes/24
iii. The Donegal https://thesession.org/tunes/1621

Set 2 (reels)
i. Beare Island https://thesession.org/tunes/696
ii. unknown
iii. The Monaghan Twig https://thesession.org/tunes/1070
iv. The Piper of Horseback thesession.org/tunes/1247

Set 3 (jigs)
i. The Gallowglass
ii. The Wheels of the World

Set 4 (jigs)
i. The Orphan
ii. unknown (version of Apples In Winter?)
iii. Katie’s Rambles (version)

Set 5 (reels)
i. The Tap Room
ii. The Moving Bogs
iii. Lilies in the Field

Set 6 (reels)
i. The College Groves
ii. The West Cork (version)

I’ll have to stop there for now. I’ll continue if nobody else picks up where I left off.

…I’ve just cottoned onto the comment feature on Soundcloud. I’ll transfer the titles over when I get round to it.

i am re-uploading the track 1 right now

https://soundcloud.com/pashaone/session-of-the-century-1

In the discussion about this a week ago most of the tunes that Creadur just identified were already identified. Why don’t you indicate what’s already known so we don’t duplicate effort? You really need to set up a central "clearing house" for the information.

@Ralex: Thanks - I’ve got track 1 now

@Gary: Thanks for alerting me to that fact. I’ll refer back to the earlier thread to see which gaps need filling.

…Funny - DavidT got to exactly the same point as me before he passed on the baton. He gave a couple of different titles, and one title I couldn’t theink of (The Sweet Flowers of Milltown - Track 2, set 2, tune 2)

Track 2:

Set 1 (reels)
i. The Turnpike https://thesession.org/tunes/917 (ending only)
ii. Dinky’s https://thesession.org/tunes/24
iii. The Donegal https://thesession.org/tunes/1621

Set 2 (reels)
i. Beare Island https://thesession.org/tunes/696
ii. Sweet Flowers of Miltown
iii. The Monaghan Twig https://thesession.org/tunes/1070
iv. The Piper of Horseback https://thesession.org/tunes/1247

Set 3 (jigs)
i. The Gallowglass
ii. The Wheels of the World

Set 4 (jigs)
i. The Orphan
ii. unknown (version of Apples In Winter?)
iii. Katie’s Rambles (version) or Clancy’s (according to David T)

Set 5 (reels)
i. The Tap Room
ii. The Moving Bogs
iii. Lilies in the Field

Set 6 (reels)
i. The College Groves
ii. The West Cork (version) or Marry When You’re Young (according to David T)


Set 11 (reels)
i. John Stenson’s #1
ii. John Stenson’s #2

Set 12
i. Dinny O’Brien’s
ii. Farewell to Connaught
iii. unknown

Set 15
i. unknown
ii. Dan Collins’ Father’s Jig

Set 19
i. unknown
ii. unknown
iii. Sheehan’s (I’ve heard Jackie play the first two together many times)

Courtesy of David T, GaryAMartin and Creadur

i’ve heard ambrose moloney somewhere and mayor’s feoda

i must find out which track is it

Set 8 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. buckley fancy

Set 14 (reels)
i. Ambrose Maloney
ii. unknown
iii. (a famous reel…)

Set 20 (reels)
i. Mayor Harrison’s Fedora

Track 2 contd.

Set 7 (polkas)
i. unknown
ii. The Mountain Pathway

Set 8 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. unknown

Set 9 (reels)
i. The Primrose Rd.
ii. The Road to Cashel
iii. CharlieLennon’s #4

Set 10 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. The Cedars of Lebanon
iii. Scotch Mary

Set 11 (reels)
i. John Stenson’s #1
ii. John Stenson’s #2

Set 12 (reels)
i. The Last House in Connaught (Dinny O’Brien’s)
ii. The Farewell to Connaught
iii. Paddy Cronin’s (?)

Set 13 (reels)
i. Maud Millar
ii. Redican’s Bow

Set 14 (reels)
i. Ambrose Moloney’s
ii. The Blue-eyed Lassie
iii. Leslie’s

Set 15 (jigs)
i. The Hearty Boys of Ballymote
ii. Dan Collins’ Father’s

Set 16
i. Con Cassidy’s (highland)
ii. Neillidh Boyle’s (highland)
ii. Neilidh Boyle’s (reel)

Set 17 (reels)
i. The Piper’s Despair
ii. The Old Pinch of Snuff
iii. The Return to Milltown

Set 18 (jigs)
i. unknown
ii. The Sporting Pitchfork
iii. Wellington’s Advance

Set 19 (reels)
i. Miss Langford’s
ii. The Tailor’s Thimble
iii. Sheehan’s

Set 20 (reel)
Mayor Harrison’s Fedora

Set 21 (hornpipes)
i. unknown
ii. Charlie Mulvihill’s

Set 22 (waltzes)
i. The Continental (?)
ii. unknown

This has been most enjoyable. I look forward to tackling the other two tracks.

Thank you for these they are great - although I do wonder why the recordings are up a whole tone?

Great session recordings - thanks. Answering the above query, it’s possibly a so-called Eb session.
Ralex, have you any idea who the players are….or did I miss that bit?

@Danny: Some of the players were identified on this thread https://thesession.org/discussions/34588

Jacky Daly, Mairead ni Mhaonaigh, Frankie Kennedy and Ciaran Curran were mentioned - not necessarily all playing on all tunes.

I was at Track 2. Queally’s bar in 1985 in the afternoon. At, not in, because the place was so packed that we couldn’t get in and had to listen standing in the street. My mate taped it through the window but this seems to come from someone else’s recording. It sounds considerably speeded up to me. (They were playing in Eb.) The core of the session was Jackie Daly, Mairead and Frankie, Paul O’Shaughnessy, Eoin O’Neill on bouzouki and Mick O’Connor on banjo. Mary Bergin was there for bits of it. Later on in the afternoon most of them spilled across the road into Cleary’s kitchen where they were joined by Dermy Diamond and Henry Benagh - we were able to get in to that one!

Great Music…. it sounds more like a Eb sharp session….
Ralex do you have these other 2 recordings (1 and 3) on the dropbox (or downloadable), would be good listening on an MP3 device while traveling.

just to fill in one of the gaps
Set 10 (reels)
i. The Controversial (I think)

Actually the Eb sharp might go along with the fact that Stiamh believes it’s speeded up.

@Theirlandais

track 1:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3y26nh1ncdjd9kn/AAA0cCpls6X4XQakP8oAxACWa?dl=0

track 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rztxtkzpcf6yr3d/AACFsMJfBX2X6PrEvz2p4exia?dl=0

track 3
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lnpauyaz027s8p0/AACqVCA-56a05qFM945q-yX3a?dl=0

bonus :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/88ax32sfsz08rhs/AACe0pOHc-XYtEshA6aIUuJUa?dl=0

thx Creadur, Theirlandais and Stiamh for your contributions 🙂

Here’s what I’ve come up with for Track 1. Quite a few gaps to fill yet. I’m not too hot on the Donegal tunes - and there are a few that sound oh-so-familiar, but I just can’t place them. Thanks to contributors to the Tunes section and Jeremy’s search engine for a few of the IDs.

Track 1:

Set 1 (jig)
i. The College Groves (see also Track 2, set 6)
ii. The Humours of Scariff
iii. Marry When You’re Young* (see also Track 2, set 6)

Set 2 (jig)
The Road to Durham

Set 3
unknown jig

Set 4 (reels)
i.The Cedars of Lebanon (see also Track 2, set 10)
ii. Scotch Mary (see also Track 2, set 10)
iii. Tommy Peoples’
iv. The Roving Bachelor

Set 5 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. The Trip to Durrow

Set 6 (reels)
i. McFarley’s (Donegal variant of The Maids of Castlebar)
ii. The Glen Road to Carrick
iii. Leslie’s (see also Track 2, set 14)

Set 6 (jigs)
i. The Tenpenny Bit
ii. The Ballykeale
iii. The Sporting Pitchfork (see also Track 2, set 18)

Set 7 (reel)
i. The Pigtown Fling

Set 8 (reels)
The Pinch of Snuff (a Donegal variant?)

Set 8 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. The Rat in the Thatch (The Humours Of Tullyknockbrine)

Set 9 (reel)
i. unknown
ii. The Heathery Cruach

Set 10 (jig)
i. unknown
ii. Paddy Reynolds’ Dream

Set 11 (reel)
i. The Tempest
ii. Love at the Endings
iii. Tommy Peoples’ (Jenny Nettle’s Fancy)
iv. The Monaghan Twig (see also Track 2, set 2)
v. The High Road to Linton

Set 12 (reels)
i. Eddie Kelly’s
ii. Farewell to Erin
iii. The Five Mile Chase

Set 13 (reels)
i. The Mullingar Races
ii. The Pigeon on the Gate

Set 14 (highlands)
i. unknown
ii. Moneymusk
iii. Kafoozalum

Set 15 (reels)
i. Never Was Piping So Gay
ii. The Hunter’s House
iii. Dogs Among the Bushes

Set 16
The Chorus Reel

Set 17 (reel)
i. The Kylebrack Rambler
ii. Ownie Davy’s
iii. The Old Pigeon on the Gate

*I concede to DavidT’s ID of Marry When You’re Young for this tune. The West Cork is closely related, but has a couple of significant differences.

"It sounds considerably speeded up to me."

It’s quite likely that the tape recorder was running slow, hence playback comes out fast.

"hence playback comes out fast" …. and sharp

The tune on track 2 before Buckley’s Fancy is "Old Cuffe Street". L’irlandais is right that Cedars of Lebanon is preceded by Billy McComiskey’s "The Controversial".

There was a fair bit of crack at this session to go with the flat-out tunes. The late Frankie Kennedy was on good form and at one point shouted"Hello Mum!" and blew a raspberry into my friend’s microphone that was dangling through the window. 🙂 You can hear him providing a running commentary on this set where Jackie D hams up the Tenessee Waltz (and Maid Behind the Bar) in style.

https://soundcloud.com/jonesbach/tennessee-waltz-maid-behind-the-bar

I have had a cassette copy of this fantastic recording for years,

out of curiosity….who was the sound recordist please?

@peter. If you are talking about "track 2" I’d say more than one recording was made because the one I have doesn’t have all the sets that are in the one Ralex posted, but does have a few others that don’t seem to be there. Mine was made by a friend from Melbourne that I have lost touch with and I don’t know that he’d want his name bandied about. I know that a few other people got copies of his tape at the time. It was made on a Sony Walkman, not the Professional model, and the quality was excellent. I say "was" because my copy at least was knackered from 25 years of repeated playing.

by the way did you check my "bonus" link ? there is more…

… now there’s a chat-up line and a half! 😀

This is wonderful stuff - thanks Ralex. Staimh - can you confirm that it was an Eb session ? I would like to shift them back to their original tempo.

peter wsll has previously referred to "… the bootleg tape ‘Through the window at Queeley’s’ ". Where there microphones dangling through several windows or just the one ?

Yes it was an Eb session. Just checked against my recording, well, my digitized version of the copy of the tape given to me by the aforementioned friend from Melbourne. IIRC his was the only microphone dangling through the window we were standing at, we were the only people standing at that window, and that was the only window of the tiny bar (actually Queally’s living room) that gave onto the street. I think it was me that christened the recording "Through the window at Queally’s" but who cares.

Thanks Stiamh. I am not sure when I will get to it but I will post the cents shift(s) required when I work them out.

( I had checked the "bonus" link - which I why I am note sure how soon I will get back to these 🙂 🙂 🙂)

I’ve updated my dropbox folders and almost every sets are identified !

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3y26nh1ncdjd9kn/AAA0cCpls6X4XQakP8oAxACWa?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/home/ITM/Irish%20Trad%20Collection/Irish%20Trad%20Collection%20%2314

Fantastic! Many thanks, Ralex! 🙂

a recap :

Track 1:

Set 1 (jig)
i. The College Groves
ii. The Humours of Scariff
iii. Marry When You’re Young

Set 2 (jig)
The Road to Durham

Set 3
unknown jig

Set 4 (reels)
i.The Cedars of Lebanon
ii. Scotch Mary
iii. Tommy Peoples’
iv. The Roving Bachelor

Set 5 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. The Trip to Durrow

Set 6 (reels)
i. McFarley’s (Donegal variant of The Maids of Castlebar)
ii. The Glen Road to Carrick
iii. Leslie’s

Set 6 (jigs)
i. The Tenpenny Bit
ii. The Ballykeale
iii. The Sporting Pitchfork

Set 7 (reel)
i. The Pigtown Fling

Set 8 (reels)
The Pinch of Snuff (a Donegal variant?)

Set 8 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. The Rat in the Thatch (The Humours Of Tullyknockbrine)

Set 9 (reel)
i. unknown
ii. The Heathery Cruach

Set 10 (jig)
i. unknown
ii. Paddy Reynolds’ Dream

Set 11 (reel)
i. The Tempest
ii. Love at the Endings
iii. Tommy Peoples’ (Jenny Nettle’s Fancy)
iv. The Monaghan Twig
v. The High Road to Linton

Set 12 (reels)
i. Eddie Kelly’s
ii. Farewell to Erin
iii. The Five Mile Chase

Set 13 (reels)
i. The Mullingar Races
ii. The Pigeon on the Gate

Set 14 (highlands)
i. unknown
ii. Moneymusk
iii. Kafoozalum

Set 15 (reels)
i. Never Was Piping So Gay
ii. The Hunter’s House
iii. Dogs Among the Bushes

Set 16
The Chorus Reel

Set 17 (reel)
i. The Kylebrack Rambler
ii. Ownie Davy’s
iii. The Old Pigeon on the Gate





Track 2:

Set 1 (reels)
i. The Turnpike (ending only)
ii. Dinky’s
iii. The Donegal

Set 2 (reels)
i. Beare Island
ii. Sweet Flowers of Miltown
iii. The Monaghan Twig
iv. The Piper of Horseback

Set 3 (jigs)
i. The Gallowglass
ii. The Wheels of the World

Set 4 (jigs)
i. The Orphan
ii. unknown (version of Apples In Winter?)
iii. Katie’s Rambles (version) or Clancy’s (according to David T)

Set 5 (reels)
i. The Tap Room
ii. The Moving Bogs
iii. Lilies in the Field

Set 6 (reels)
i. The College Groves
ii. The West Cork (version) or Marry When You’re Young (according to David T)

Set 7 (polkas)
i. unknown
ii. The Mountain Pathway

Set 8 (reels)
i. Old Cuffe Street
ii. Buckley’s Fancy

Set 9 (reels)
i. The Primrose Rd.
ii. The Road to Cashel
iii. CharlieLennon’s #4

Set 10 (reels)
i. The Controversial
ii. The Cedars of Lebanon
iii. Scotch Mary

Set 11 (reels)
i. John Stenson’s #1
ii. John Stenson’s #2

Set 12 (reels)
i. The Last House in Connaught (Dinny O’Brien’s)
ii. The Farewell to Connaught
iii. Paddy Cronin’s (?)

Set 13 (reels)
i. Maud Millar
ii. Redican’s Bow

Set 14 (reels)
i. Ambrose Moloney’s
ii. The Blue-eyed Lassie
iii. Leslie’s

Set 15 (jigs)
i. The Hearty Boys of Ballymote
ii. Dan Collins’ Father’s

Set 16
i. Con Cassidy’s (highland)
ii. Neillidh Boyle’s (highland)
ii. Neilidh Boyle’s (reel)

Set 17 (reels)
i. The Piper’s Despair
ii. The Old Pinch of Snuff
iii. The Return to Milltown

Set 18 (jigs)
i. unknown
ii. The Sporting Pitchfork
iii. Wellington’s Advance

Set 19 (reels)
i. Miss Langford’s
ii. The Tailor’s Thimble
iii. Sheehan’s

Set 20 (reel)
Mayor Harrison’s Fedora

Set 21 (hornpipes)
i. unknown
ii. Charlie Mulvihill’s

Set 22 (waltzes)
i. The Continental (?)
ii. unknown

Here’s as far as I’ve got with Track 3:
Track 3:

Set 1 (reels)
i. unknown
ii. unknown
iii. unknown

Set 2 (jigs)
i. unknown
ii. The Lost and Found
iii. The Setting Sun

Set 3
Crossing the Minch (hornpipe)

Set 4 (reels)
i. The Long Strand
ii. Hugh Shortie’s
iii. unknown

Set 5 (reels) - (The Fisherstreet crowd? see https://thesession.org/recordings/1146)
i. John Brady’s
ii. The Lough Mountain
iii. The Letterkenny Blacksmith

Set 6 (jigs) - (as above?)
i. Helvic Head
ii. The Trip to Killarney

Set 7 (as above)
Out in the Night (air/waltz)

Set 8 (jigs)
i. Joe Derrane’s
ii. unknown
iii. The Kinnegad Slashers

Set 9 (reels)
i. Sandy Grant
ii. The Tailor’s Thimble

Set 10 (reels)
i. The Ivy Leaf
ii. Molly Ban
iii. The Wise Maid
iv. The Monaghan Twig

Set 11 (reel)
i. I’m Waiting for You
ii. Gerdy Commane’s

Set 12 (jigs)
i. Johnny Boyle’s
ii. Darby the Driver

Set 13 (hornpipes)
i. Dapper’s Delight
ii. unknown
iii. The Humours of Tullycrine

More to follow.

I should add that when I started labelling each bit ‘Set 1, Set 2 etc.’, it didn’t occur to me that not all the tunes would be played in sets. Daft as it is calling it a ‘set’ when it’s only one tune, I decided to continue using the same labelling for consistency’s sake. I hardly needed to explain that - I just don’t want people thinking I’m a complete fool. Partial fool is OK.

amazing work creadur ! and what do you think about the bonus link i’ve put above ? don’t worry i don’t want to give you more job but just your mind about those recordings

If the contents in the bonus link is what I also have access to via my GDrive (I just noticed you updated the session tracks yesterday), I can have a look at the tunes - but not now (I’m supposed to work…).

Ralex,

I’m nearly sure you have asked about the names of a lot of the stuff in the bonus list before, is that correct.
anyway for the Loughrea session 1980, I have the following

1. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Flax in Bloom - Belles of Tipperary.mp3
10. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Bank of Ireland.mp3
11. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Liffey Banks.mp3
12. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Paddy Fahy’s - Whistler of Rosslea.mp3
13. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Harvest Moon - Berehaven.mp3
14. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Farewell to Leitrim.mp3
15. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Limestone Rock - Humours of Loughrea.mp3
16. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - 1 - Connemara Stockings - St. Anne’s -.mp3
17. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Bee’s Wing - Paddy Fahy’s.mp3
18. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Mills Are Grinding -.mp3
19. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - The Ceilier’s - Bird In The Bush - Miss MacLeod’s.mp3
2. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Come West Along The Road - Five-Mile Chase.mp3
20. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Ambrose Maloney’s - Belles of Tipperary.mp3
21. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Brian Quinn’s - Trim The Velvet.mp3
22. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Cashmere Shawl.mp3
23. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Mick Cooney’s Fancy - Newtown Bridge.mp3
24. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Rakish Paddy - First House in Connaught.mp3
25. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Ewe - Morning Mist.mp3
26. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Frieze Britches.mp3
3. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Paddy Kelly’s - King of the Clans.mp3
4. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Broken Pledge - Red Tom of the Hills.mp3
5. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Coen’s Memories - Sean Sa Cheo.mp3
6. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Lady Ann Montgomery - St. Anne’s.mp3
7. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy -Stoney Steps - Maud Millar.mp3
8. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy -Green Groves of Erin - Flowers of Red Hill.mp3
9. Paddy Carthy & Conor Tully & Paddy Fahy - Duke of Leinster - New Copperplate - Old Copperplate.mp3

yeah that’s correct ! 🙂
7 years ago I was learning tunes from the tapes of the Hynes brothers and asking people here to help me with identifying the tunes… Same thing with Paddy Carty

folder updated thx Theirlandais

I wasn’t even playing 7 years ago, there was something a few months ago, maybe on a different site with the Paddy Carty session, does that mean I went and worked out all those names myself ?

by the way the first tune on track 16 is the blackthorn stick, which means someone else must have found the name of the tunes.

Here’s the rest of Track 3. For the sake of discontinuity (;)) and your ease of navigation, I have done here what I should have been doing from the start and added the start time for each tune.
Some great fiddling on here. Could the first set be Eileen O’Brien? And the older-sounding fiddler (17 & 18) Sean Ryan, maybe?

Track 3 contd.
Set 14 (reels)
i. Iniscealtra 51:01
ii. Aggie Whyte’s 52:41
iii. Miss Thornton’s 53:47
Set 15 (reels)
i. The Blackberry Blossom 54:58
ii. John McFadden’s Favourite 56:04
Set 16 (reels)
i. Matt Peoples’ (The Erigall) 57:14
ii. Matt Peoples’ 58:19
Set 17 (reel)
The Road to the Glen 59:27
Set 18 (reel)
The Maids of Mt. Kisco 1:01:21
Set 19 (jigs)
i. The Scotsman Over the Border 1:03:38
ii. The Cordal 1:05:04
Set 20 (reels)
i. The Belles of Tipperary 1:06:07
ii. The Stoney Steps 1:07:45
Set 21 (reels)
i. Maudabawn Chapel 1:08:54
ii. Faral O’Gara 1:10:24
Set 22 (reel)
Lord Gordon’s

@Ralex: I look forward to listening to the bonus track. Thanks.

@Stiamh: It’s great to hear from someone that was actually there. I was still learning my times tables back then.

Ralex, here it is, https://thesession.org/discussions/33006#comment704982 what would be really appreciated is to not ask for the same thing twice, in other words when people do up date the tune info you update the dropbox.

Otherwise this could go on for another 7 years…

@CMO: It was great to be there. And it is great to be still around to remember it. 🙂 Cheers!

Thanks so much for supplying these tracks Ralex - absolutely fantastic listening, and also interesting for me as I haven’t broken into the session side of things yet.

I’m late getting to this thread, but in the first recording (#14), track 6:
Set 6 (reels)
i. The College Groves
ii. The West Cork (version) or Marry When You’re Young (according to David T)

I think that second tune sounds more like Johnny Doherty’s reel
https://thesession.org/tunes/201

The Eamonn Coyne, Siobhan Peoples & Co. folder in the "bonus" section is awesome….Anyone take a stab at that one?

The second tune of the first track is my current earworm….A version of Green Groves of Erin, perhaps?…

yeah nice tune indeed 🙂 but doesn’t feel like a reel to me ?

Agreed…more like a hornpipe I guess….

glad someone is still enjoying those recordings 🙂

Any chance of getting these soundcloud links updated? I tried them and they don’t work anymore. Thanks. Ray

Gosh, this seems really great to listen to!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/88ax32sfsz08rhs/AACe0pOHc-XYtEshA6aIUuJUa?dl=0

Ah great. Thanks so much AB!

WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

Track 1 Set 3 is Tommy Tourish’s Jig. Set 8 isn’t the Pinch of Snuff, but rather Muilleann na Maidí. Track 2 Set 7 1st Polka is the Return of Spring.

Does anyone know who is playing the first few tracks on the session of the century 1 sound file?