Doolin Point
The Best of Divers’ Nights 1992
– 1999
Doolin
Point - The Best of Divers’
Nights 1992 – 1999
is a new live CD which will be
released on June 15th. It contains
the best of Divers’ Nights, a series of concerts held between 1992 and 2000
in North Clare.
Clare is the home of traditional Irish music and North Clare is the
home of music in Clare. Doolin
Point is the best of the twenty hours of live traditional music coming from
this corner of Ireland.
This CD contains music from
Martin Hayes (1994), Matt Molloy (1992 and 1997), Kevin Crawford (1993),
Tommy Peoples (1992), Kate Purcell (1997), Tim Dennehy (1997), Jackie
Daly (1992), Kevin Griffin and
Eoin O’Neill (1994), Chris Droney (1992), The Lahawns (1999) and Gerry
(Banjo) O’Connor with Kevin Doherty (1998).
The concerts were presented by
the Burren Sub Aqua Club, which managed to get the many of the pivotal figures
in Irish traditional music to play at annual concerts in Ennistymon and
Liscannor: Junior Crehan, PJ
Crotty, Matt Molloy, Miko
Russell, James Cullinane, Paul Brock, Davy Spillane, Begley and Cooney, Martin Hayes,
Chris Droney, Jackie Daly, Manus
McGuire, Sean Tyrell and Dordan
to name just some of them.
The complete track listing is
below. For radio play,
tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9 are particularly recommended.
|
Order |
Artist |
Year |
Length
|
Name |
|
1 |
Martin
Hayes and Pat Marsh |
1994 |
3:50 |
The
Morning Star, The Coillte Mountains |
|
2 |
Tommy
Peoples |
1992 |
3:47 |
College
Groves, Gan Ainm,
O’Dowds No. 9 |
|
3 |
Kevin
Crawford with Donal Clancy |
1993 |
4:06 |
Reels:
Rooney's favourite, Connie
O'Connell's |
|
4 |
Matt
Molloy |
1992 |
5:12 |
Flings
of Kerry, Paddy Ryan's Dream |
|
5 |
Peter
Molloy with
Matt Molloy and Eoin
O'Neill |
1997 |
4:02 |
Willie
Coleman's, Gallagher's
Frolics, The Battering Ram |
|
6 |
Kate
Purcell |
1997 |
2:05 |
Some
will love you |
|
7 |
Tim
Dennehy |
1997 |
3:12 |
Famous
Faha Sports |
|
8 |
Jackie
Daly |
1992 |
7:00 |
The
humours of Tandragee reels: Free
and easy; Miss McClouds; McDermott's |
|
9 |
Kevin
Griffin with
Eoin O'Neill, Ted McCormack + Kevin Crawford
|
1994 |
5:34 |
Kevin
Griffins/Kevin Crawfords |
|
10 |
Chris
Droney + George Byrt |
1992 |
3:40 |
The
Noon Lasses, Austin Tierney’s |
|
11 |
The
Lahawns |
1999 |
2:14 |
The
Concertina Reel; Come west along the road |
|
12 |
Gerry
O'Connor and Kevin O'Doherty |
1998 |
5:43 |
The
Reconciliation set:Green mountain; The Floggin reel, The Reconciliation |
For further information,
contact
Tadhg O’Brien tadhgob@compuserve.com
or tadhgob.ennis@eircom.net
+353 86 8180044 / +353 65 6829293
Mary Ellen Twigge
pmgtwigg@gofree.indigo.ie +353
65 6821994