The captivating fiddle and accordion player, Rose Murphy, was born in 1900 into an intensely musical family in Milltown, County Galway. She spent much of her adult life living around Rotherham in South Yorkshire, and was 76 years young when this recording was made. The album delightfully recaptures the dancing repertoire styles of her youth in the West of Ireland.
1 Reel: Salamanca / The Milltown Lasses
2 Trim the Velvet
3 Jig: The Silver Tip / The Frog in the Well
4 The Lark in the Clear Air
5 Polkas: The First of May / The Last of June (Jenny Lind)
6 Jigs: Paddy in London / Over the Garden Wall
7 Hornpipe: Road to Ballysodare
8 Reels: The Teetotaller / The Bunch of Keys
9 Reel: The Whistler and His Dog
10 Reels: The Flax in Bloom / The College Grove / The Maid on the Mountain
11 Reel: Ladybower’s Reel / The Sister Reel
12 Reel: Drowsy Maggie
13 Hornpipes: The Harvest Home / The Londonderry
14 Jigs: The Frost Is All Over / The Goose in the Bog
15 Reel: The Lonely Maid
16 Air: The Coolin
17 Barn Dance: Turkey in the Straw
18 Slip Jig: Mother I’m Up In the Roost (What Are You Doing, You Divil You!)
19 Miss Monahan’s / Miss Gallagher’s
20 Reel: Rakish Paddy
21 Hornpipe The Belfast (or Sweep’s) Hornpipe
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