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Farewell To Evening Dances

By Colm O’Donnell

  1. The Road To Monalea
    Up Spincín
  2. Erin Grá Mo Chroí
  3. John Feehily’s
    Cúigiú Lassies
  4. The Trip To Athlone
    The Blackthorn Stick
  5. Cúnla
    The Frieze Breeches
  6. The Trip To Birmingham
  7. An Ton Amplach
  8. The Boys Of Barr Na Stráide
  9. The Dublin
  10. The Boys Of Coomanore
    Farewell To Ballinahulla
    Billy McCormick’s
  11. The Bodhrán
  12. The Maid Of Mount Cisco
    The London Lassies
  13. The Hill Of Knocknashee
  14. Sherwood Forest
    The Boys Of Bluehill
  15. A Stór Mo Chroí
  16. The Shaskeen
    Jim Donahughe’s
  17. The Battering Ram
    The Besom In Bloom
  18. Horses And Plough

Nine comments

Farewell to evening dances

Another nice album by Bogfire (http://www.bogfire.com). Colm O’Donnel is equally accomplished as a flutist and singer.

Here are the translations given in the insert for the Irish song names:
Erin gr

Oh, and he lilts too.

The Cronolly Connection

To the M&E enthusiasts here (like me and at least a couple others), it may be interesting to know that Colm O’Donnell was the young man who received the "wheel spoke" flute (the first one that Michael made, out of a spoke of an old wheel) and went on to win a few competitions with it.

Tone

When i think of Sligo flutists, i have a stereotype of a pulsating, driving and dirty sound. This guy, however, has a very beautiful and pure tone, very nice on the ears.

Tone

Hey, I like that dirty thick tone! But I like Colm’s playing as well.

Farewell to you, braves comrades all…

the album’s title comes from track 13: The Hill of Knocknashee

Really Nice Album

Great to hear such an album from a very fine musician who also has a day job. Well, several day jobs.

Boys of Bluehill

Very pleasant album!
Colm O’Donnell plays a nice version of Boys of Bluehill🙂.