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Reel on Irish wooden flute. A tune from Co. Roscommon flute player Josie McDermott.
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Maloney’s Wife, jig on Irish flute
The Battering Ram : an unusual setting from the music of Jim Donoghue of this common Irish jig, played below on Irish wooden flute.
The Sailor’s Jacket, reel played on Irish flute. I associate this reel with the Sligo style of flute playing ; a version was collected by Bernard Flaherty in his book the Trip to Sligo
The Chattering Magpie reel played on Irish wooden flute
The Sailor on the Rock, reel played on Irish flute. The Sailor on the Rock is associated with the great Leitrim flute player John McKenna.
John McKenna was an influential Irish flute player. Born in 1880 in Tarmon, Co Leitrim, he worked in the Arigna coal mines before emigrating to the States in 1911, where he settled in New York. He made 60 recordings (78s) between 1921 and 1937, including several duets with violinist James Morrisson. He was among the first to make recordings of Irish traditional music, with James Morrisson (fiddle), Patsy Tuohy (uilleann pipes) and other emigrant musicians, at the time of Francis O’Neill’s book “The Dance Music of Ireland.
Two reels on Irish flute : The Happy Man & The Hairy Dogleaf. The Happy Man is a composition of Paddy O’Brien.