John Moran Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Hello If you are intersted in photographs of West Clare concertina players the Tom Munnelly collection appears to be online at the National Folklore collection in UCD. https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/41339 Apologies if this has been flagged before. Plenty of photographs of Geoff Woofe playing and also of Peter Laban (two musicians who frequent this site). Cheers John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takayuki YAGI Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I saw them for the first time. Thank you for sharing! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) Thanks for that John. I had a look at it a few months ago, plenty of familiar faces and situations. I remember turning up for the reunion of the surviving members of the Laictin Naofa, ( it was actually a talk, it was a bit of a surprise they all turned up and played too boot) and realising I hadn't brought a camera. Tom did, fortunately. But that said, Tom was a man of many talents but photography was perhaps not one of them. He was in the right places and with the right people though and that makes the collection a valuable one. There were a few occasions too where I did bring the camera so I could turn the tables and get a few snaps of Tom, here he is conducting a public interview with another of the great West Clare characters, Marty Malley: Edited April 29, 2019 by Peter Laban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Thanks John, this is new to me... I'll take a look!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) While on the topic of West Clare concertinaplayers (and this one may well deserve a thread of its own): later next month a CD will be launched with a recording made during the late 1970s by Séamus MacMahúna of Paddy Murphy, Paddy Canny, Peter O'Loughlin with Geraldine Cotter on the piano. The launch will be at a concert with Geraldine joined by family members of the original players. One to watch out for, if you're into that sort of thing. Edited April 29, 2019 by Peter Laban 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 39 minutes ago, Peter Laban said: While on the topic of West Clare concertinaplayers (and this one may well deserve a thread of its own): later next month a CD will be launched with a recording made during the late 1970s by Séamus MacMahúna of Paddy Murphy, Paddy Canny, Peter O'Loughlin with Geraldine Cotter on the piano. The launch will be at a concert with Geraldine joined by family members of the original players. One to watch out for, if you're into that sort of thing. Hmmmmm. I can always take a good dose of Murphy, Canny and O'Loughlin + Geraldine is always splendid !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) Quote Hmmmmm. I can always take a good dose of Murphy, Canny and O'Loughlin + Geraldine is always splendid !! Yes, looking forward to that. Mind you, the next generation isn't half bad either, Eimear Coughlan (Paddy Canny's grandaughter) is quite the musician. Edited April 29, 2019 by Peter Laban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Indeed Peter the latest generation has some fantastic players... well, you know my current policy is to support the youth by concentrating my instrument making efforts in their direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 (edited) Quote Hmmmmm. I can always take a good dose of Murphy, Canny and O'Loughlin + Geraldine is always splendid !! I'll bring up this thread, just to take the slight diversion I took it on and divert it a bit further. The CD Friends of Note, a collection of archive recordings of Paddy Canny, Peter O'Loughlin and (concertina player) Paddy Murphy, with young Geraldine Cotter on the piano, was launched earlier tonight, followed by a big, and magnificent, concert. Anyone interested in Clare music should get one. They're available here, for a tenner: https://www.coisnahabhna.ie/shop/product/cd/401/ Edited May 30, 2019 by Peter Laban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 On 5/26/2019 at 11:02 PM, Peter Laban said: They're available here, for a tenner: https://www.coisnahabhna.ie/shop/product/cd/401/ I wish I'd known that yesterday Peter, I paid €17 for it in a certain shop in Ennis... ? Well worth it though! ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) They had a deal at the launch,tenner for one, three for 25. Only got the one though. ? The launch concert was very enjoyable. Actually spotted you walk down O'Connell st just before it Steve (we were having a bit of pre-concert something to eat). LtoR: Geraldine Cotter, Eamonn Cotter, Kieran Hanrahan, Eimear Coughlan, Maeve Donnelly, Francis Cunningham, Ronan Browne, Johnny Kelly, Cathy Potter and invisible in the back row on the right were Gerald Coughlan, Nicky & Ann McAuliffe Edited May 31, 2019 by Peter Laban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Moran Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 Thanks Peter for the info and the photo. I'll be looking forward to hearing them playing when I get my copy of the CD. Looking at the tracklist I wonder were they the popular tunes of the day or were they more unusual tunes. Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) Quote Looking at the tracklist I wonder were they the popular tunes of the day or were they more unusual tunes. Hard to say isn't it? A good portion of those tunes will come up if you listen to recordings of the time and players of that era so I would venture they were popular. But then again, some would have been popular because these very people played or recorded them. A bit of a chicken and egg situation. Edited May 31, 2019 by Peter Laban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Moran Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 17 hours ago, Peter Laban said: Hard to say isn't it? A good portion of those tunes will come up if you listen to recordings of the time and players of that era so I would venture they were popular. But then again, some would have been popular because these very people played or recorded them. A bit of a chicken and egg situation. Looking at the dates when this was recorded I was actually playing myself then. It would be years though until I had delved enough into the music to appreciate the genius and musicality of Canny, Murphy and O'Loughlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Well, same here. I was making a way in during the seventies without much of a clue and became more focused and serious once I started the pipes, or got the pipes, in 1979. The quality these gentlemen's music would probably have eluded me (Ronan Browne alludes to that sort of thing in his sleeve notes for the CD). I am sure I heard Paddy Murphy play during the Willie weeks of the early eighties without understanding much of his music and that's probably only one of the players I regret not paying enough attention to when the opportunity was there. I can only be glad a few of that generation were left by the time I did start paying attention, or developed an ear and a degree of appreciation for what I heard and perhaps some understanding of what to listen for. Looking back though, there are a fair few tunes on this CD I knew as doing the rounds at the time. With hindsight, listening to recordings from that time and being familiar with the repertoire of players of that time and place, it's probably safe to say this was a repertoire popular with that group with many tunes breaking out of that circle to become overall classic tunes. Over the past few weeks I have been hearing a fair bit of music, a lot of younger players with whole new repertoires of tunes. I pick up the tunes that appeal to me, the ones that stick easily, but there's a lot of comfort in hearing 'the old tunes' played well and finding new corners in them when revisiting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevodell Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 I came across the following as a plug for The Rolling Wave on RTE radio this evening, not that it ever needs a plug: Tonight at 9pm on The Rolling Wave we’ll be listening to the music of the late Kitty Hayes. We have an interview from the archives with Kitty and Josephine Marsh and we hear how Kitty began playing again after a 45 year break! It will be available on their archive. I also saw this lovely piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHyBTPfVMY Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 Well, that probably explains the missed calls from Aoife Nic Cormaic on my phone earlier this week. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 The Rolling Wave RTE, 16 June, Kitty Hayes : https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/11048700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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