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Track Listing

• Seamus Quinn's/The Blackthorn Stick/Rosewood
  These are common jigs around home and The Blackthorn Stick is one of the first tunes everyone learns.
  Colleen - cittern | Sheila - fiddle | Turlach - flute
• Con Cassidy's Jigs
  Con Cassidy was a great fiddle player from Teelin in Donegal. The second jig is also known as Daniel Collins Father's Jig.
  Ruairi - flute | Turlach - flute
• The Little Tail Waltz
  My sister Maeve learnt this waltz to play at her friends' wedding in Italy. I learnt it to play at her wedding. I'm not in a hurry to teach it to anyone.
  Sheila - fiddle | Gerry - guitar | Turlach - flute
• Andrea's Waltz
  This lovely tune was composed by Bob Pasquarello and I first heard Eden playing it a couple of years ago.
  Colleen - cittern | Eden - fiddle | Turlach - flute
• The Pikemen's March
  An unusual tune and a favourite of the great flute player Desi Wilkinson.
  Turlach - flute
• The Controversial Reel/The Concert Reel
  Good tunes that I originally got from a book. I've since found out that the first tune was composed by Billy McComiskey.
  Turlach - flute
• Johnny's Wedding/Colonel Rodney's
  Learnt Johnny's Wedding in Doolin from the box playing of Josephine Marsh and John Williams. My family calls the other tune The Stubborn Mule in honour of no-one we know.
  Turlach - flute
• Ithaca Reel/The Tidy Cottage
  EJ composed these reels, the first while on tour in Ithaca, NY and the other during a flurry of domestication. I'm flattered that he used the names I suggested.
  EJ - Highland bagpipes | Terrence - dumbek | Turlach - flute
• Catharsis/Reel a Louis Beaulieu
  The first tune was composed by Amy Cann and the second is French Canadian. Got them from Eden.
  Eden - fiddle | Julia - piano | Dave - mandolin | Turlach - flute
• The Road to Ballymac/Mulhaire's Reel
  The first reel is a composition of accordion player Vincent Leslie.
  Colleen - cittern | Sheila - fiddle | Turlach - flute
• The Kilfodda Reel/Mary Bergin's
  I don't really have a name for the second tune but I think Mary Bergin plays it and who better to name it after anyway.
  Colleen - cittern | Sheila - fiddle | Turlach - flute
• President Garfield's/The Japanese Hornpipe
  The first tune came from Ryan's, a nineteenth century collection of American Music, the second from the playing of Seamus Begley.
  Julia - piano | Turlach - flute
• Boys of the Town/Mist Covered Mountain/Brid Harper's Jig
  The third tune might have a different name but it came from Brid so that's what we call it at home.
  Sheila - fiddle | Gerry - guitar | Turlach - flute
• Rose Marie/Mary Finn's Reel
  Rose Marie is a favourite of John Kennedy, the man that taught me to play the flute. I heard another name for it last year but I've forgotten. My sister Maeve learnt the other tune a long time ago from Mary Finn.
  Sheila - fiddle | Gerry - guitar | Turlach - flute