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| The Golden Peg. Amanda Lynn's jig, Earl's Lane (P.Kelly) These jigs were written in Miltown Malbay Co. Clare during the Willie Clancy week in 1996. |
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| The Bottine tunes (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) These two tunes, La Batteux and La grande gigue simple come from the playing of the French Canadian band, La Bottine Souriante. |
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| Värmland Waltz / The Butcher's March (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) The first tune I collected from a recent trip to Sweden. Värmland (Warmland) is a region in the centre of the country which, like many others, has a large repertoire of folk music. The Butchers march is a traditional Greek tune which I found on an album of Greek music collected in the field. |
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Mc Gann's (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) The Graf Spey (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) The Dresden Reel (P. Kelly) The first two reels are fairly well known. The third tune was written in Dresden on one of my many tours in Germany with my good friend Frankie Lane. |
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| Flatbush Waltz (A. Statman) / Great Denmark St. (E. Mayock, published by Savannah Music) The Flatbush Waltz, written by the American mandolin player Andy Statman, is a hauntingly beautiful waltz which has been recorded by the famous classical violinist Ithzak Perlman. The second tune is by the fine flute player Emer Mayock who wrote it when living in that particular street in Dublin |
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The Lads of Laois. (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) The Otters Holt (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) Mc Glincheys (B. Mc Glinchey) These three reels are in the keys of E, B and G minor respectively, hence the title. |
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| Ombyggn'an / Venezualan Waltz (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) I got the first tune in this set from Hulling, a young Swedish Band I had the good fortune to meet in Stockholm a few years ago. The second tune, although from South America, was also collected on that same trip to Sweden, so it seemed a good idea to give them a whirl together. |
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| La Fille aux cheveux de lin The girl with the flaxen hair. (Claude Debussy) This short but beautiful moody piece was originally written for solo piano. Although it has been previously recorded in many different ways, I've never heard it as a mandolin/guitar duet before. |
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| The Emigrant's Sheds (P. Kelly) / Einar's Mazurka (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) I wrote the first piece for Rubato Dance Theatre's production of "Na Prátaí Lofa", a piece about the great Famine in Ireland. The sheds in question refer to the huge hangars the famine survivors were quarantined in before their new life began in America. And!!!!!...another tune from Sweden, this one is named after Einar Bergman, one of the many friends I made in that part of the world. |
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| The Orange Peel Reel / The Bike in the tree (P. Kelly) Two more original tunes, also composed during that prolific week in Co. Clare. The title of the second tune refers to the Tour de France, which was taking place at that time. A rider crashed on a bend in the road and his bike careered into a ravine and landed on top of a tree! His name? Alex Zuelle!!
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| The Dear Irish Boy(Trad. arr. P. Kelly) This old Irish air, also known as An Buachaillín Buí , was taught to me by my teacher and great friend Des Carty, who sadly passed away a couple of years ago. I would like to dedicate this tune to his memory.
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| Des Carty's Jigs (Trad. arr. P. Kelly) Four jigs just to finish off! Des and I used to play these as a set together. The first tune is called Paddy's Resource and the third is titled "The Girls of Banbridge", both coming from the Irish Musician's bible "O'Neill's 1001". The remaining two go under the ubiquitous title of "gan ainm".
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