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The Kilfenora "Fiddle" Ceili Band =

Tommy Peoples - fiddle
Tom Hegarty - fiddle
Michael Kelleher - fiddle
Tom Ward - fiddle

Jimmy Ward - tenor banjo
Paddy 'Organ' Mullins - flute
Michael Sexton - Accordion
Pat Madigan - Bass
Jimmy Leyden - drums
Kitty Linnane - piano
P.J. Murrihy - guitar - & vocals for the songs, tracks 4 & 11

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by ceolachan

E2 MCPS
- a division of Music Collection International Ltd.
- a VCI plc company...London, 1998
CD# - ETDCD 092

E2CAT / VCI
http://www.2entertain.co.uk/default.htm

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by ceolachan

Second tune in the first track is The Dublin Reel -- anybody got the name of the first tune?

# Posted on January 17th 2006 by Zina Lee

Oh, and the third tune is Rip the Calico.

# Posted on January 17th 2006 by Zina Lee

Zina, is it the Connemara Stocking? See this: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2269/comments#comment49080

# Posted on January 18th 2006 by slainte

The older edition of this CD is known as "Irish Traditional Fiddle Music". I have the CD of the older edition, the tunes are the same.

# Posted on May 3rd 2006 by enirehtac

RE: Track 12- McDermot's

Does anyone have a transcription for the first reel in track 12, called Mcdermot's? I tried to learn it off my recorder at half speed, but some of the phrases are a little vague. I haven't found any tune on the session that sounds similar. Thanks.

# Posted on November 7th 2006 by enirehtac

Here..........

It's this one, isn't it ?

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/682

This was originally an LP record recorded by the English "Transatlantic" label, around 1975, I think. Pops up in many disguises, often on very cheap CDs, sometimes with the "Glenside" Ceili Band. All of the tunes are listed here somewhere. I'll create "links" for them by the end of the week.

# Posted on November 7th 2006 by Kenny

Sorry.........

No it ain't. Sorry – wrong McDermott. The “KCB’s” “McDermott’s” reel is Josie McDermott’s “Trip To Birmingham”, but the sheet music posted here under that title is a mess. The tune is in “G” to start with, not “D”. “slainte” and I have both posted “abc” versions in the “comments”. It is also the “Josie McDermott’s” reel which appears on Matt Molloy’s first LP.

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1787


# Posted on November 7th 2006 by Kenny

Track 2, the first jig

I was able to play most of the first jig on track 2, playing at half pace, but I forget how it went. I will try to see if the tune if already posted some during the session. In case anyone else is interested, I found of that "Joys of Love" is the same as "Donnybrook Fair" and "Bridgie McGrath's" is the same as John Kelly's Slide.

# Posted on November 8th 2006 by enirehtac

Tune names & track links

I’ve tried to identify the un-linked tunes on this recording, as most of them have been posted here:

Track 1 : “Kilfenora reels” are :

a)- “Connemara Stocking”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/614

b) – “The Westmeath Hunt” [ not the “Dublin” ]
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2269

c)- “A Fair Wind” : version posted here is “Tamalin”’s version in “A”.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/936

Track 2 - 2nd jig is a version of “The Star Above The Garter”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1398

Track 5 – 1st reel “Mullin’s” = “The Green Mountain”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/166

Track 7 is 5 reels:

a)- “The Flax In Bloom”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/748

b)- “The Liffey Banks”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/502

c)- is “Dinny O’Brien’s”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1667

d)- “Morrison’s” = “Miss Langford’s”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2088

e)- “Come West Along The Road”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/474

Track 10, 3rd reel, “Peadar’s” = “Boil The Breakfast Early”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3

Track 12 :
a)- “McDermott’s” = “Josie McDermott’s” / “Trip To Birmingham”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1787
The sheet music here is inaccurate, to say the least. See “abc” notation in the “Comments”.

b)- “Tierney’s” = “Tom Billy’s / Speed The Plough”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/901

Track 13 – “The Gold Ring” is the jig in “D”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1351

Track 14
a)- “Reel Of Bogie”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3307

b) – “The Kerry” = “The Green Fields Of Rosbeigh”
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/322

# Posted on November 8th 2006 by Kenny

Re: Track 2

Kenny, are you sure about the second jig in track two being a version of Star Above the Garter? It sound more like John Kelly's slide to me.
In addition, I think the first jig in Track 2 is the one transcribed in the comments on Water from the Well recording as the first jig on Track 12 of Water from the Well. I'm not possitive, but it sounds (without listening to that actual tune on Water from the Well) very similar.

# Posted on November 8th 2006 by enirehtac

Traditional Irish Fiddle Music

Kenny, I forgot to say Thanks for identifying these tunes!

# Posted on November 8th 2006 by enirehtac

Correction....

You're quite right, catherine [ I deduce ]. It is indeed "John Kelly's" and not the "Star".

# Posted on November 9th 2006 by Kenny

Damn nice work! ~ I wish someone had let me know...
I'd forgot to do the usual searching and linking myself, as happens now and again... :-/

Here follows a bit from Nigel's duplication ~

# Posted on September 8th 2007 by ceolachan

"The Kilfenora Ceili Band" ~ the LP

Transatlantic TRS108
Recorded at The West County Inn, Ennis, County Clare on January 4th 1974.
Produced by Mick Moloney.

# Posted on September 4th 2007 by nigelg

# Posted on September 8th 2007 by ceolachan

I have this disc from Legacy International, CD308. Found it on Amazon looking for Tommy Reck. Cheap, too!

# Posted on July 8th 2009 by gravelwalks

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