Thanks for posting Dow - now I never need to learn to read music - I'll just teach the tunes I love and you can post them for me Ive only heard this tune written by Deirdre- but if they are all half this good then they must be brilliant - I love this tune!
Cheers for posting this Dow, it's when a tune like this gets posted, 12 hours after asking about it, that one can see the shear brilliance of this website! Yeh, its the whole Moynihan family - Deirdre, Donncha and Diarmaid in Calico, but I had no idea of that when I was playing music every week with them in Cork last summer! Deirdre has a great smooth and flowing fiddle style, with plenty of passing notes, rather than leaving long notes or including any staccato, which brings across a beautiful long melodic line. I don't know, but maybe she gets this from the fact that she is also apparently a very good soprano who sings solo and in a choir I think in Dublin. Whatever, the case, cheers for posting the tune. I'm gonnae dig out my tapes I recorded of those sessions and see if any of the family played any of their own tunes!!
Across The Rooftops
By Deirdre Moynihan of "Calico", from their album "Songdogs". Thanks for the tune Beebs...
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by Dow
It's Diarmaid Moynihan, I think. I've got their first and love it, but not the second one yet. Diarmaid is definitely a great composer.
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by slainte
It's not - I checked on the album sleeve.
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by Dow
Sorry, it seems Diarmaid's sister. http://www.tradcds.com/artists/interviews/diarmaidmoynihan.html
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by slainte
Yeah, she's a great composer too - credit where it's due eh?
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by Dow
Thanks for posting Dow - now I never need to learn to read music - I'll just teach the tunes I love and you can post them for me
Ive only heard this tune written by Deirdre- but if they are all half this good then they must be brilliant - I love this tune!
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by bb Cruella de vil
Cheers for posting this Dow, it's when a tune like this gets posted, 12 hours after asking about it, that one can see the shear brilliance of this website! Yeh, its the whole Moynihan family - Deirdre, Donncha and Diarmaid in Calico, but I had no idea of that when I was playing music every week with them in Cork last summer! Deirdre has a great smooth and flowing fiddle style, with plenty of passing notes, rather than leaving long notes or including any staccato, which brings across a beautiful long melodic line. I don't know, but maybe she gets this from the fact that she is also apparently a very good soprano who sings solo and in a choir I think in Dublin. Whatever, the case, cheers for posting the tune. I'm gonnae dig out my tapes I recorded of those sessions and see if any of the family played any of their own tunes!!
# Posted on May 14th 2004 by Jamie