Fiddler's Fancy 50 Irish Fiddle Tunes CD

Irish Fiddle Music CD selected and arranged by Irish fiddle legend Tommy Peoples. Fifty choice by one of the all-time greats of Irish traditional fiddling.

Choose Quantity: 1 Price:  click here to send us FEEDBACK on this item (opinions, experiences, doubts...)

Fiddler's Fancy CD

Tommy Peoples

The companion CD for the '50 Irish Fiddle Tunes' Song Book

A choice collection of 50 fiddle tunes from Tommy Peoples, many of which he has gathered on his travels around Ireland.

This CD is designed so that by adjusting the left of right speakers on your stereo you may listen to either Tommy Peoples himself or play along with the backing musicans.

Specification

See contents below.

Condition: NEW,

IBSN: 5-099386-123026

Publisher: Waltons Manufacturing Ltd (1986)

Running Time:55:05

Players:Tommy Peoples: Fiddle, Manus Lunny: Guitar, Bouzouki

Recorded At: Strand Studios, Dublin, Ireland

Producer:Pat Conway

Tommy Peoples

Tommy Peoples was born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, and grew up in Killycally, St. Johnston, Co. Donegal. He learned partly from his father but started lessons with his cousin Joe Cassidy at the age of seven. Peoples developed his own techniques of bowing from early in his playing career and is one of the most inventive and imaginative of traditional fiddlers. A move to Dublin led to his involvement in the foundation of the Green Linnet Céili Band and, in 1974, to a brief spell with the group 1691. Soon after, he joined the legendary Bothy Band, with which he recorded an album in 1975. In the late 1970's he played for a time with the Kilfenora Céilí Band but was always happier in small sessions rather than stage performances. One of the most memorable traditional albums of this period is Matt Molly, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples (1978), notable for the great passion and energy of all three players' performances. Peoples has released a number of solo albums including The High Part of the Road (1979), on which he was accompanied by Paul Brady. Throughout the 1980's and '90's he played small sessions, many of them around Co. Clare. The Quiet Glen/An Gleann Ciúin was released in 1998, with Alph Duggan on guitar, and has strengthened Peoples' standing as one of hte all-time greats of Irish traditional fiddling.

Contents

- 1) The Norfolk - 2) The Queen of the West - 3) Shaun Maguire's - 4) Coleman's - 5) Grainne's Jig - 6) The Star of Munster - 7) Mulhaire's - 8) The Kinfenora Lass - 9) Boys of the Town - 10) The Bank of Turf - 11) Laird of Drumblaire - 12) The Fisher's Rant - 13) John Doherty's - 14) The Morning Dew - 15) Na Connery's - 16) Brian Boru's March - 17) Feargal O'Gara - 18) Sheehan's - 19) King of the Clans - 20) The Skylark - 21) Chief O'Neill's Favourite - 22) The Tailor's Twist - 23) Dowd's No. 9 - 24) Ciaran O' Raghallaigh - 25) Lisdoonvarna - 26) The Rights of Man - 27) Kitty's Wedding - 28) The Salamanca - 29) The Colliers - 30) The Lark on the Strand - 31) Eavesdropper - 32) The Musical Priest - 33) The Doon - 34) The Wind that Shakes the Barley - 35) The Maid on the Green - 36) Jackson's Morning Brush - 37) Jackson's - 38) The Drunken Landlady - 39) Maudabawn Chapel - 40) Out on the Ocean - 41) The Green Flag - 42) The Echo - 43) Little John's Hame - 44) Castle Kelly - 45) The Shaskeen - 46) Corofin - 47) Coleman's Favourite - 48) Lady Gordon's - 49) Larry Grogan's - 50) The Merry Sisters