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Turas

By Turas

Added by kiwi .
  1. Paddy Gavin’s
    Liz Carroll’s
    The Other High
    The Sally Gardens
  2. The Miller’s Maggot
    Out On The Ocean
    Calliope House
  3. Bob McQuillan’s
    Poor But Happy At 53
    The Trip To Nenagh
  4. The Boys Of Malin
    The Sailor On The Rock
    Pig Town
  5. The Kilfenora
    The Ship In Full Sail
  6. P.J. Hayes
    The Galway Rambler
    The Crooked Road To Dublin
    Come West Along The Road
  7. Lucy Farr’s
    The Chinese
  8. George White’s Favourite
    The Morning After
  9. Alan Kelly’s
    The Compromise
  10. The Dean Brig Of Edinburgh
    O’Dowd’s
  11. Bright Blue Rose
  12. Fal Carragh
    Cross The Fence
  13. The Morning Dew
    Frankie Kennedy’s
    The Monaghan Twig
    The High Road To Linton

Eleven comments

Great set of tunes. I got this on tape from a friend about 5 years ago and never really knew much about the musicians or the recording until the other day when I searched the session web site for Turas. Of course, while the recording had not been submitted before, there is references to the group so check out these previous discussions/comments

https://thesession.org/discussions/1773/comments
https://thesession.org/tunes/1734

or simply do a search from the front page yourself.
I really like these tunes and hope you will too.

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Turas - Track 3

Some very good playing on this. 2 of the track 3 titles are wrong. “Dermot Byrne’s” is “Bob McQuillan’s” by Aly Bain, and “Michael’s” is “The Trip To Nenagh” or “An Moinfheir”[ “The Meadow” ] by fiddler Sean Ryan.

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Track 3

Thanks Kenny. Have made the changes.

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Sort of remeber them. They got people talking alot at the time. They were way ahead of their time and the fact they were so young got a lot of interest in them. Surprised they didnt do more than one recording though!

To clarify/avoid confusion

The “Liz Carroll’s” listed on track 1 is in fact called “Wissahickon Drive” (https://thesession.org/tunes/1769). When you click on the link in the track listing, it brings you to another tune written by Liz Carroll.

Further tune name clarifications

Re track 1 (and a great track it is);

Paddy Gavin’s (The Bond reel):
https://thesession.org/tunes/5332

This setting of the High Reel is also known as the beehive and is further discussed and found here:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1584

Theirs sounds like a Dmajor setting of Sally Gardens and is supremely tasty. I’ll post the recipe at my first convenience!)

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Addendum

The Bond HOUSE (sorry for the gaffe), and I meant no disrespect to the Beehive via the lower case b - bad typist me.

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Wrong link in “iTunes”….

The “iTunes” link above, top right, is to a completely different recording.

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Re: Turas

Very remiss of us not to have mentioned the band members :

Liam O’Connor - fiddle / viola
Ronan Ryan - flute / bodhran
Padraig Rynne - concertina
Padraic O’Reilly - piano / bouzouki / synthesiser

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