Here's a nice sparce reel Like lots of tunes that Micko Russell played, it is not cluttered by too many notes. So many tunes played these days sound like the putting to sound of a manuscript which just been sneezed on - by someone quite poorly at that.

It's sometimes good to have simple things around too.

Here's a very very very popular jig. One reason it's very very very popular is that it's fairly easy to learn.

This might not be the "O'Mahoney's" you were expecting (as if people sit around expecting hornpipes of whatever name) but I noticed it under this name in "Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol 2. I always just called it "do you know this one?". Brendán Breathnach took it down from Denis Murphy's playing for CRÉ 2. I'll go with the present name as I always believe what other people have written.

Here's a popular tune.  My only doubt is that I might have leaned it at a concert of something far removed from Irish traditional music.  Now I come to think of it, I'm fairly sure I've never been to a concert so I probably got the tune from a record so it should be OK.   I did get taken to the zoo once when I was about seven.

There might be something Scottish, maybe even Scott Skinnerish about this jig.

I heard it from Sean McGuire but I'm OK.

This might not be the "O'Mahoney's" you were expecting (as if people sit around expecting hornpipes of whatever name) but I noticed it under this name in "Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol 2. I always just called it "do you know this one?". Brendán Breathnach took it down from Denis Murphy's playing for CRÉ 2. I'll go with the present name as I always believe what other people have written.

Here's a nice sparce reel Like lots of tunes that Micko Russell played, it is not cluttered by too many notes. So many tunes played these days sound like the putting to sound of a manuscript which just been sneezed on - by someone quite poorly at that.

It's sometimes good to have simple things around too.

This is a fairly common tune.  I hope you like it.

Here's a reel in "C" named after the great, late fiddle player, A McG.

When I play tunes on the flute in "C" there always seems to be a slightly bronchial drainpipe sound going on. Sometimes the flute sounds funny too.

Being a bit parochial, I usually associate this tune with a different, fairly recently lost fiddle player, Seán McGuire.

Maybe I'll just call it McG's reel.

I hadn't played this tune for a long time until I thought I had been asked to record it here. Once I'd finished the process I realised that "The Green Groves of" is not a synonym for "Farewell to". I'll maybe take a trip to the airport and get some inspiration for the tune I was supposed to play.

(I think I had a mish-mash of farewell to green groves in Erin's Ireland earlier.  I hope this particular tangled hank of yarn has now been been unravelled )