Another new 3CD set featuring 89 tracks with performances by, among others: Lucy Farr, Billy Clifford, Amby Whyms, Lamond Gillespie, Brian Rooney, Joe Whelan, Reg Hall, Karen Ryan and James Carty. Compiled and researched by Dr. Reg Hall, the acknowledged expert in [...]
A new 3CD set featuring a total of more than 100 vital performances by, among others: Michael Gorman, Bobby Casey, Martin Byrnes, Julia Clifford, Jimmy Power, Nan Landers, Vincent Griffin, Edmond Murphy and Tommy McCarthy. Compiled and researched by Dr. Reg Hall, [...]
Two dozen recordings "illustrate", according to the album's producer Reg Hall, "traditional dance-music repertoires, styles and contexts found in Ireland, Britain and America in the first half of this century." Some 50 tunes are played by soloists, duets, small groups and ceilidh [...]
Irish Dance Music From A London Pub These highly atmospheric recordings were made during Sunday morning sessions at one of London's most celebrated Irish pubs, The Favourite in Holloway, and feature highly regarded members of the London Irish community such as Martin [...]
This album serves as a complementary release to Irish Dance Music (TSCD602). It is a collection of early recordings (1923-49) of some of the greatest Irish traditional musicians ever to set foot in the recording studio. As well as solos from pipes [...]
The fiddle occupies pride of place within Irish traditional music and this collection features the great players from the golden age of recording between 1922 and 1951. These virtuoso stylists are featured in solo, small group and various band combinations performing both [...]
An outstanding and remarkable collection of Irish traditional music edited by Reg Hall. Round the House and Mind the Dresser could almost be described as "The other side of Irish traditional music" in that much of the recording of the music over [...]
Three notable figures in the annals of Irish fiddling, Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford, play fiddle solos, duets and trios in an exceptional collection of music chiefly from the Sliabh Luachra (Kerry/Cork) region of Ireland. A classic collection of Irish [...]
Rowsome was one of the great style-makers of Irish pipe music. 'Everywhere he went,' writes his friend Sean Reid in the notes, 'he added glamour to a unique, expressive and truly native instrument, a living link with the historic Irish nation.' This [...]