If you like Irish music, you’ll enjoy this CD immensely. If you play Irish music you’ll find this CD really useful listening. All the tunes found on Joys of Life and Shaskeen Live are core Irish session repertoire. Accurate transcriptions of all the tunes can be found in the book Through the Half Door. Wonderful music.
Born out of Galway and the West, Shaskeen rebounds a tradition that is deeper than time itself. Reels and jigs played with a verve and vigour that commands the ultimate response – the passioned play of dancing feet on the stone floor. Shaskeen have been sharing their music with us for many years now, long may it continue. The music on this album is the exact length and pace for the following sets: The Caledonian Set : The Galway Set : The Aran Set : The Connemara Set
Track List
Reels: Cooley’s, The Earl’s Chair Reel: The Trip to Durrow Reels: Farewell to Connaught, The Bank of Ireland, The Galway Rambler Jigs: The Banks of Newfoundland, Mysteries of Knock, Páidín O’Rafferty Reels: Pigeon on the Gate, The Foxhunters Hornpipes: The Wicklow, Murphy’s Reel: The Humours of Tulla Reel: Rolling in the Ryegrass Reel: McMahon’s Jig: Maloney’s Wife
Reel: Tear the Calico Reels: The New Copperplate, The Old Copperplate Reels: Crowley’s, Lord McDonald’s, The Cameronian, The Boys of Ballisodare Polka: Johnny Mickey’s Reels: The Eel in the Sink, Mullingar Races, Sheehan’s Reels: The Tarbolton, The Longford Collector, The Sailor’s Bonnet Reels: The Shaskeen, Lady Ann Montgomery, Maud Millar Polka: The Magic Slipper Reels: The Teetotaller, The Sailor on the Rock Reels: The Volunteer, The Ships are Sailing, The Redhaired Lass
Jigs: The Joys of Life, Morrison’s Reels: The Boy in the Boat, Anderson’s Barn Dances: The Ballroom Favourites Reels: The Turnpike Gate, The Ten Pound Float Medley: The Banks of Lough Gowna, John Brennan’s, The Sligo Reel Reels: The Morning Dew, Cooley’s, The Earl’s Chair Hornpipes: McCarthy’s, Lawson’s Jigs: Strike the Gay Harp, The Tailor’s Wedding Reels: The New Policeman, The London Lassies