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50 Irish Fiddle Tunes

Fifty great Irish fiddle tunes with sheet music, arrangedby the Irish fiddle legend Tommy Peoples.

See below for Song Listing

Condition

New, Paperback, A4 size, 30 Pages

IBSN: 1-85720-149-3

Publisher: Waltons Manufacturing Ltd (2003)

Tommy Peoples

Tommy Peoples was born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, and grew up in Killycally, St. Johnston, Co. Donegal. He learned partly from his father but started lessons with his cousin Joe Cassidy at the age of seven. Peoples developed his own techniques of bowing from early in his playing career and is one of the most inventive and imaginative of traditional fiddlers. A move to Dublin led to his involvement in the foundation of the Green Linnet Céili Band and, in 1974, to a brief spell with the group 1691. Soon after, he joined the legendary Bothy Band, with which he recorded an album in 1975. In the late 1970's he played for a time with the Kilfenora Céil?Band but was always happier in small sessions rather than stage performances. One of the most memorable traditional albums of this period is Matt Molly, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples (1978), notable for the great passion and energy of all three players' performances. Peoples has released a number of solo albums including The High Part of the Road (1979), on which he was accompanied by Paul Brady. Throughout the 1980's and '90's he played small sessions, many of them around Co. Clare. The Quiet Glen/An Gleann Ciúin was released in 1998, with Alph Duggan on guitar, and has strengthened Peoples' standing as one of hte all-time greats of Irish traditional fiddling.

Contents

Bank of Turf, The - Boys of the Town, The - Brian Bor?s March - Castle Kelly - Chief O'Neill's Favourite (Flowers of Ardigne) - Ciarán O Raghallaigh - Coleman's - Coleman's Favourite - Colliers, The - Connerys, Na - Corofin, The - Doon, The - Dowd's No. 9 - Drunken Landlady, The - Eavesdropper, The - Echo, The - Feargal O' Gara - Fisher's Rant, The - Gráinne's Jig - Green Flag, The - Jackson's - Jackson's Morning Brush - John Doherty's - Kilfenora Lass, The - King of the Clans, The - Kitty's Wedding - Lady Gordon's - Laird of Drumblaire, The - Lark on the Strand, The - Larry Grogan's - Lisdoonvarna - Little John's Hame - Maid on the Green, The - Maudabawn Chapel - Merry Sisters, The - Morning Dew, The - Mulhaire's - Musical Priest, The - Norfolk, The - Out on the Ocean - Queen of the West, The - Rights of Man, The - Salamanca, The - Shaskeen, The - Shaun Maguire's - Sheehan's - Skylark, The - Star of Munster, The - Tailor's Twist, The - Wind that shakes the Barley, The