42 of Ireland's finest traditional musicians recorded by RTE in concert 2003 - 2007

DISC 1 Tracks 1. Catherine McEvoy: The Deer's March / The Sports of Listowel / Trim The Velvet. 2. Mary McNamara & Denis Cahill: The Battle of Aughrim / Joe Bane's Reel 3. Frank Harte & Donal Lunny: The Lambeg Drummer 4. Tony MacMahon: The Wounded Hussar 5. Oisin MacDiarmada: The Bloom of Youth / Big Pat's Reel 6. Martin Hayes, Eoghan O'Sullivan & Steve Cooney: The Blackbird 7. Mairéad & Anna Ni Mhaonaigh: Ceol na Phíobaire (song) 8. Ronan Browne: O'Neill's Lament 9. Artie McGlynn & Nollaig Casey: Wallop The Spot / I Buried My Wife 10. Mick Kinsella & Seamie O'Dowd: Kid on the Mountain / O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick 11. Cormac Breatnach & Martin Dunlea: The Wicklow Way / Sue's HP / The Last Train 12. Mairéad Ni Dhomhnaill & Donal Lunny: Shíl Mé Fhéin (song) 13. Gerry (Banjo) O'Connor: Niamh's Capers / The Heather Breeze / The Moving Cloud 14. John Flanagan: Róisín Dubh (song). DISC 2 1. Kitty Hayes & Eoin O'Neill: The Boys of Tanderagee / Willie Coleman's / The Maids on the Green 2. Mick O'Brien & Caomhín O'Raghaillaigh: Gan Ainm / Strop The Razor 3. Kevin Crawford & Steve Cooney: Mrs Casey's Hornpipe / John Egan's / Up to Her Neck in Sand 4. Andy Irvine: (song) My Heart's Tonight in Ireland 5. Máirtín O'Connor, Cathal Heyden & Steve Cooney: The Reconciliation / The Plough & The Stars / The Green Mountain 6. Martin Hayes: Fair Haired Molly / The Green Gowned Lass 7. Irla Ó Lionáird: I am Weary of Dying Alone 8. Tony MacMahon & Steve Cooney: The Humours of Drinagh / Trip to Athlone 9. Mick Kinsella, Josephine Marsh & Seamie O'Dowd: Paddy Fahy's / The Yellow Tinker 10. Sean McKiernan: Nora of my Dreams / Caislean an Oir 11. Máire Ni Chéileachair: (song) A Bhride Bheag Chróin 12. Matt Cranitch & Seamus Creagh: The Toormore / The Gneeveguilla / The Gleanntan Frolics 13. Brian McNamara: The Humours of Glin 14. Sean Smyth: The Chapel Bell / Paddy Ryan's Dream 15. Ronan Browne & Peadar O'Loughlin: Jenny's Wedding / The High Road to Galway 16. Jacky Daly: The Newmarket / Tom Billy's Polka 17. Emer Mayock, Cormac Breatnach & Donal Siggins: Nearly Blue / Round Midday     Click on underlined titles to hear MP3 sound samples

We are delighted to announce our release of this fine recording.

MASTERS OF TRADITION
RTE Lyric CD117
Double CD

Forty-two of Ireland's finest traditional musicians, recorded by RTE Lyric in Bantry House,West Cork Ireland. 2003-2007

The MASTERS OF TRADITION is a double CD featuring many of the country’s finest musicians. Martin Hayes, Denis Cahill, Donal Lunny, Frank Harte, Tony McMahon, Andy Irvine, Mary McNamara, Peadar O’Loughlin . . . it is impossible to list all of the greats on this one collection from RTÉ lyric fm.

The force exerted by the past on the present – a definition of the word ‘tradition’ taken from Webster’s dictionary and, in the context of traditional music, a powerful and pithy analysis of the strength and potency of this magnificent art.

The Masters of Tradition Festival is all about acknowledging this force: the music is allowed to declare itself purely and proudly in the glorious acoustic of the Library in Bantry House, West Cork. Since the Festival began it has been recorded for broadcast by RTÉ lyric fm and thirty-one of the highlights from the festival have been selected for the MASTERS OF TRADITION double CD.

Two of the musicians featured on this collection are no longer with us – Frank Harte and Kitty Hayes – and it is truly an honour to be able to include them in this collection, an outstanding document of some nights of extraordinary music-making.

 

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