Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Northern Fiddle Session

I taped this at the All-Ireland Fleadh in Buncrana, Donegal, in 1979. Most of my session tapes are complete messes, but this time I wasn't trying to play myself and so could concentrate on recording things properly. The session is mainly Seamus Quinn, Francie Quinn and Fealey Kearney, with Andy Dickson and Dermy Diamond doing a 'turn' now and again. I think Tara Diamond is in there somewhere too, as is Eugene Kelly on bird-whistle!

This isn't what would now be regarded as 'Donegal fiddling' but it is very much a 'Northern' session and has all those big fiddle tunes you don't seem to hear a lot of these days.

Changed times.

This was a C90 which I originally ripped onto 2 CDs and I've kept the two parts here, if only to save me changing all the track names.

Part 1
Part 2

(Re-posted with '/'s replaced by '-'s)