Yvan’s sixty-four comments
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Re: Air Dancing
(I stripped the short titles and parenthesis from the tracklist, enabling links to the tunes.) more…
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The Falls Of Altnarie
I transcribed it from the playing of Liz Doherty on her album “Last Orders”. more…
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Duplicate
It is an early setting of Jimmy O’Brien’s Jig reported at https://thesession.org/tunes/12210 more…
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Re: The Carna Reel
Neither of them, Máirtín O’Connor composed it. It can also be found on ‘The Road West’, 13rd track to the left. https://thesession.org/recordings/1519 more…
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Re: Micho Russell’s
Played as a slow reel in there: https://soundcloud.com/ergodos/c-l-na-ngabhar-ri-l-an-raiti-n more…
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Re: The Old Pinch Of Snuff
It is the tune recorded by Malachy Bourke on ‘Draw the Bow’. He calls it ‘The Old Pinch of Snuff’ and plays it in G. I refer to the the initial setting by Dr. Dow and the close settings by joe fidkid and JACKB. more…
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Also known as Shanie Mulhearne’s Reel
According to Jimmy Campbell (in The Fiddle Music of Donegal), this title was often used. more…
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Herman’s Hostel
I learned it from the playing of Ruadhraí O’Kane on the recording “Live at Maddens”. more…
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Yes, and only in the pub I guess, see http://mulligans.nl/cds.php more…
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Tracks 2 and 16 are the other way around on the back of the booklet. more…