This is his first solo album. A good mix of Irtrad and contemporary tunes plus some tunes from other places. Oisin is is a great player who can really rip on those fast tunes, but still manages to play very soulfully on slower tunes. Guests on this album are Peter Browne on Box, Ronan Browne on Pipes, Tony Byrne on Guitar, Aongus McAuley on Cello, Shane McGowan on Guitar, and Peter Molloy on Flute. This album is worth buying for Oisin and Ronan's duet version of Port Na Bpucai.
Those two reels are not commonly heard. The first one is sometimes called Gigue à Pierre but I would not bet my life on that title. The second is from the repertoire of Edouard "Ti-Douard" Richard, a fiddler from Grande-Vallee, a town on the north shore of the Gaspesie peninsula.
Does anyone have the dots for "Belle of the Stage"?...or is that a silly question?!! I never resort to asking that but trying to learn it by ear & have got a bit stuck...!!
I was mystified by the "Souvenir of Venice" at first, since he says these tunes are from Cole's/Ryan's, and that title is used in this book for the hornpipe usually known as the Banks. The tune he plays is actually an Eb hornpipe titled Buckley's Favourite in that book, with attribution for the tune to Fred Buckley - who was also possibly the source of the reel Buckley's Favourite that Leo Rowsome recorded in 1933, and which was subsequently put on disc by Charlie Coen, Jack Coen, Frances Quinn, Joe Derrane, and Le Cheile.
The Belles of the Stage was recorded in the 1950s by the famous fiddler/composer Dan R MacDonald. I'd been hacking away at it for a while now; Oisín really goes to town on the thing, it sounds like he's been through the Suzuki method.
Fiddler from Danu
This is his first solo album. A good mix of Irtrad and contemporary tunes plus some tunes from other places. Oisin is is a great player who can really rip on those fast tunes, but still manages to play very soulfully on slower tunes. Guests on this album are Peter Browne on Box, Ronan Browne on Pipes, Tony Byrne on Guitar, Aongus McAuley on Cello, Shane McGowan on Guitar, and Peter Molloy on Flute. This album is worth buying for Oisin and Ronan's duet version of Port Na Bpucai.
# Posted on February 27th 2007 by Why Bother?
Just got it today.
My head exploded.
Great stuff.
# Posted on May 21st 2007 by jwvansteenwyk
Quebec Reels
Gigue à Pierre/Reel à Ti-Douard
Those two reels are not commonly heard. The first one is sometimes called Gigue à Pierre but I would not bet my life on that title. The second is from the repertoire of Edouard "Ti-Douard" Richard, a fiddler from Grande-Vallee, a town on the north shore of the Gaspesie peninsula.
# Posted on July 7th 2007 by f.pellerin
Gilles Le Bigot
The first name is Gilles not Gille.
# Posted on July 7th 2007 by f.pellerin
Does anyone have the dots for "Belle of the Stage"?...or is that a silly question?!! I never resort to asking that but trying to learn it by ear & have got a bit stuck...!!
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Lizzy
I was mystified by the "Souvenir of Venice" at first, since he says these tunes are from Cole's/Ryan's, and that title is used in this book for the hornpipe usually known as the Banks. The tune he plays is actually an Eb hornpipe titled Buckley's Favourite in that book, with attribution for the tune to Fred Buckley - who was also possibly the source of the reel Buckley's Favourite that Leo Rowsome recorded in 1933, and which was subsequently put on disc by Charlie Coen, Jack Coen, Frances Quinn, Joe Derrane, and Le Cheile.
The Belles of the Stage was recorded in the 1950s by the famous fiddler/composer Dan R MacDonald. I'd been hacking away at it for a while now; Oisín really goes to town on the thing, it sounds like he's been through the Suzuki method.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Kevin Rietmann
The tune he calls "Neil Gow's Wife" is actually an old strathspey in F, the Lass of Corrie Mill, that Winston Fitzgerald recorded: http://www.archive.org/details/TheLassOcorrieMillStrathspeyFishersWeddingPearthAssemblyReel I see that someone has contributed the dots already: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7274
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Kevin Rietmann