Posted on Youtube for St. Patrick’s Day, 2023, 3 short recordings from Micho Russell’s 1985 trip to Forfar :
https://youtu.be/bTPf3K9wyKw
I would appreciate a bit of help with a few tune titles.
Also, if you receive the Sky Arts channel, they are broadcasting the “Chieftains” “Water From The Well” at 6.30pm tonight. Worth a watch.
The first slide in the second video is here under the name “Micho Russell’s Slide” - which doesn’t help an awful lot - but also as “Callaghan’s”. https://thesession.org/tunes/958
@Kenny I suspect the tune titles you need help with are the same ones that I don’t know… But, for the sake of completeness (or as close to it as I can get):
1. Reels: Sean sa Cheo; The Boy in the Gap
2. Slides: Callaghan’s (Micho Russell’s); Patsy Geary’s
3. A (Donegal highland?) version of Monymusk; unknown barndance; unknown waltz; Patsy Campbell (reel)
Sorry I can’t help with the barndance and waltz.
In the third clip, I know the first tune from Altan as the Fermanagh Highland: https://thesession.org/tunes/654
Thanks for the replies, guys.
Here are a couple of whistle tunes for St. Patrick. There are 3 “session.org” members in the photo [ the ones I know of ] :
https://youtu.be/-KpHb03gcw0
The tune after Fermanagh Highland reminds me of this one:
https://thesession.org/tunes/5760 (a hornpipe version of the song An Spailpin Fanach)
I seem to be remembering a lot of musical heroes, sadly departed, this St. Patrick’s Day [ thankfully, not Peter, I trust ]. Here are two more :
https://youtu.be/cFr21K0LpDo
Lovely stuff, Kenny, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the “heads up” re the Chieftains programme on Sky Arts, Kenny. Managed to catch some of it.
