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Frank Cassidy

Níl gar ann! / Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal / Played by Frank Cassidy (and in duet with John Doherty)

Previously unreleased archive recordings of the legendary Donegal fiddler Frank Cassidy.

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Cascades of Song

Cascades of Song

The Clare Festival of Traditional Singing took place in the North Clare market town of Ennistymon on the June bank holiday weekend from 1990 to 2002. Most of these concert recordings were made by Tom Munnelly in his dual capacity as director of the festival and folk song collector.

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Con Cassidy

Con Cassidy: Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal

Previously unreleased archive recordings of the legendary Donegal fiddler Con Cassidy.

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The Piping of Patsy Touhey

The Piping of Patsy Touhey

The historic recordings of the legendary Irish-American piper Patsy Touhey comprise one of the greatest treasures of Irish traditional music. This CD presents a new remastering of a selection of the best of these recordings.

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Johnny Doran

The Master Pipers vol. 1: Johnny Doran

Johnny Doran has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest uilleann pipers known to traditional music. The influence exerted by his music on other players is incalculable, and remarkable especially for a musician who never issued a commercial recording.

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The Raineys

The Raineys

"I would describe what the Raineys do as highly controlled playing that has a peculiar intensity, a delicacy that holds together some very forceful and powerful playing and that manages to suggest an earthy wildness." Dermot McLaughlin

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Whist

Whisht - Irish Traveller Folktales and Songs

People have always told stories and sung songs, and always will. The sung and spoken narratives in this collection are international, all of them travellers in their own way, as Johnny Cassidy and his family were.

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Keepers of the Flame

Keepers of the Flame: Travellers and Fellow Travellers

Music and song have always been important to Irish Traveller life and culture. This collection, which includes some of the best examples of recorded music and song by Travellers, is being released as part of Pavee Point's twentieth anniversary celebrations.

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Songs of the Irish Travellers

Songs of the Irish Travellers

Originally released in 1983, these are the songs Tom Munnelly chose himself when he was asked to make a selection of Travellers' songs for publication by the European Ethnic Oral Traditions

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WKPF

Live Recordings from the William Kennedy Piping Festival

This CD is the first in what is hoped to be a series reflecting the richness and diversity of the world of piping. The performances were recorded live at the William Kennedy Piping Festival between 1997 and 2001.

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The Girls Along the Road

John Kennedy: The Girls along the Road

Traditional songs, ballads and whistle tunes from Co. Antrim

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Glenside Irish Ballads

Glenside Irish Classics

If You Feel like Singing, Do Sing an Irish Song – featuring twenty classic songs heard on the Waltons Saturday afternoon radio programme of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, now digitally re-mastered and made available on CD.

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Seoltai Seidte

Seoltaí Séidte / Setting Sail

A historic collection, remastered on two CDs, of twenty 78 rpm discs first issued by Gael Linn from 1957 to 1961: 43 performances by outstanding solo singers in Irish from Irish-speaking districts and solo musicians from the rest of Ireland on fiddle, flute, accordion and uilleann pipes.

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