Tommy Hayes - the best player bodhran (traditional technique)and Gerry O'connor Irish banjo
Irish traditional music : "The Chieftains" - whistles, including Matt MolloyFrom the "Chieftains" 21st Anniversary concert. A medley of tunes from their first album, "Chieftains 1".
Tunes are the slow air "Se Fath Mo Bhuartha" - a whistle duet by Sean Potts and Paddy Moloney, followed by 3 reels - "The Connemara Stocking/The Limestone Rock/Dan Breen's". Features rare footage of flute player Matt Molloy playing whistle.
De Dannan - Live at the Embankment (1976)FRANKIE GAVIN - Fiddle
ALEC FINN - Bouzouki
CHARLIE PIGGOTT - Banjo
JOHNNY MOYNIHAN - Bouzouki, Bodhran
JOHNNY "RINGO" McDONAGH - Bones, Bodhran
Tin Whistle MusicJust love the way Seán plays. Fantastic exponent of the tin whistle in traditional music. Here he plays two reels with a great bodhrán player Johnny ( Ringo) McDonagh. Recorded in Taylor's Pub, Galway in 1990.
Melodeon Musichttp://www.setdancingnews.net/wcss/wcsst.htm
Bobby Gardiner from Lisdoonvarna,County Clare, accompanied by Johnny (Ringo) McDonagh on Bodhrán. Recording from 1982.
Irish Tradition : Bodhran & BoxJohnny Ringo McDonagh (Bodhran) and Jackie Daly (Melodeon? - or is it accordion or concertina) That's why I call it a box!
The History of the Bodhran 1973-1982.AVISome old black/white and colour clips. It starts with a clip of Galway bodhran maker Mike Vignoles talking about the making of the bodhrans in gaelic and then a music compilation taking from shows such as Fleadh Cheoil, Come West along the Road, Sessions of the 70s and early 1970s Late Late Show broadcasts. My favourite is the Mary Bergin and Johnny Ringo McDonagh contribution from 1982 I think. But Ringo, Paeder mercier, Christy Moore, Marcus Walsh (From Quilty, County Clare) and Seamus Donaghue with his dad Jim show us how to bang the bodhran effortlessly. Pat Power with some musicians and some puppets at the Listowel Fleadh Cheoil Enjoy. Just to be clear this is not a documentary about the bodhran but a collection of archival clips and it does not follow chronologically like the years stated.
1. This is actually from about 2004 - 05 about Michael Vignoles talking about the bodhran making process in gaeilge, the music featured is Brian ORourke singing his song When I grow up I want to be a bodhran and the bodhran playing is from my good friend Nick Power.
2. Nicks brother Pat is featured in the next clip taken at one of the Listowel Fleadh Cheoils with some musicians and some of Pats puppets.
3. Jim and Seamus Donaghue from the Roscommon/Sligo border area although Im not too sure (Sourced from an older programme from 1973 this was rebroadcast on Come West Along the Road.)
4. Packie Russell and Marcus Walsh (Tangents 1973: Rebroadcast on Come West Along the Road.)
5. The Chieftains (Possibly 1972) The Morning Dew Set - Late Late Show Rebroadcast.)
6. Planxty 1974 - Jigs ( Johnny Monynihan and Paul Brady replacing Donal Lunny) from the Sessions of the 70s series I think, for BBC Northern Ireland.
7. De Danann at the Embankment 1976 - two sets and with Johnny Monynihan too. (Rebroadcast on Come West Along the Road.)
8.Mary Bergin and Johnny Ringo McDonagh - Air and reels 1982 (Rebroadcast on Come West...) I know its a bit of a jump from 1976 to 1982. But at the time I originally had a comp than ran to three hours on a vhs tape, so this is only a sample of it that made it on to dvd and my pc. Enjoy.
Oisin - The Cow Ate The Piper (irish trad)LP "Bealoideas", 1978
* Bouzouki -- Tom McDonagh
* Fiddle, Vocals -- Mick Davis
* Guitar, Vocals -- Seamus McGowan
* Twelve-string Guitar, Mandolin -- Brian McDonagh
* Vocals, Recorder -- Geraldine McGowan
In the year of ninety-eight, when our troubles were great,
'Twas treason to be a Milesian.
I will never forget the big black-whiskered set
That the history books will tell us were Hessians.
In these troublesome times, there was all sort of crimes,
For murder it was never rifer.
At the hill of Glencree, not an acre from me,
Lived the old bold Denny Byrnes, the piper.
Neither wedding nor wake was worth an old shake,
Unless Denny was first invited,
For at squeezing the bags or emptying kegs
He astonished as well as delighted.
In these days, poor Denny could not earn a penny.
The law had a sting like a viper,
And it kept him within till his bones and his skin
Were a-grin through the rags of the piper.
One heavenly night with the moon shining bright,
Comin' back from the fair of Rathangan,
What should he see, from the branch of a tree
But the corpse of a Hessian there hanging.
Says Denny, "These rogues have fine boots. I've no brogues",
And he laid on the heels such a griper.
They were so gallus-tight, and he pulled with such might,
Legs and boots came away with the piper.
He picked up the legs and he took to his pegs,
Then he got to Tim Kavanagh's cabin.
"Be the powers," says Tim, "sure I can't let you in.
You'll be shot if you're caught out there rappin'."
He went round to the shed, where the cow was in bed,
With a wisp he began for to wipe her,
And they lay down together on the seven-foot heather,
And the cow fell a-hugging the piper.
Next morning soon dawned. Denny got up and yawned,
Then pulled up the boots of the Hessian.
The legs, be the law! he flung in the straw,
And he gave them leg-bail on his mission.
The breakfast being done, Tim sent out his son
To get Denny up, like a lamplighter.
When the legs there he saw, he roared like a daw:
"Ah Daddy! The cow ate the Piper!"
"Sweet bad luck to the baste! She'd a musical taste
To eat such wonderful chanter.
Here Padraic, avic, take this lump of a stick.
Take her of to Glenealy. We'll cant her."
The neighbours were called. Mrs Kavanagh bawled.
They began for to humbug and jibe her.
To the graveyard she walks with the legs in a box,
Crying out, "We'll be hanged for the piper!"
The cow was then drove just a mile or two off,
Till they got to the fair of Glenealy.
There the craythur was sold for four guineas in gold
To the clerk of the parish, Tim Daly.
They went into a tent and the luck-penny spent,
(For the clerk was a woeful old swiper).
Who the devil was there, playing "The rakes of Kildare"?
The bold Denny Byrnes, the piper!
Tim gave a bolt like a half-broken colt.
At the piper he stared like a gommach.
Says he, "Be the powers, sure I thought these eight hours
You were playing in old dhrimindhu's stomach."
And Danny observed how the Hessian he'd served,
And they all wished Nick's cure to the viper,
And for grà that they met and their whistles they wet,
And like devils they danced round the piper.
OisinOisin - SBB Ina Shui RTE 1982
Geraldine MacGowan Ann Conroy
