Brendan Taaffe: Listen




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Colman's Well - When I Die (2.87 MB mp3 file)
Colman's Well - When I Die (2.29 MB m4a file)

Nils Fredland - bass Rachel Gordon - alto Brendan - tenor

Colman's Well - Jubilee (2.70 MB mp3 file)
Colman's Well - Jubilee (2.16 MB m4a file)

Nils Fredland - bass Rachel Gordon - alto Brendan - tenor

Colman's Well - Daddy Fox (3.53 MB mp3 file)
Colman's Well - Daddy Fox (2.85 MB m4a file)

Nils Fredland - bass Rachel Gordon - alto Brendan - tenor, guitar

the rollicking boys of tandragee/ the hawthorn hedge (3.06 MB mp3 file)

brendan - fiddle, guitar colin farrell - fiddle

Two jigs with my friend and classmate, Colin Farrell, a Mancunian of high renown. I don't know where I got the first jig, but the second is a composition of Séan Ryan, the great Tipperary fiddler.

three little drummers/ na ceannabhan bhána (1.91 MB mp3 file)

brendan - guitars síle denvir - harp jim higgins - bodhrán

A great jig and a child's dandling song from Connemara, set here in mellow fashion on guitar and harp with Jim on the drum.

farewell to connacht/ the sailor's bonnet (2.14 MB mp3 file)

brendan - fiddle, guitar matt bashford - pipes

The first reel I learned from an old lp of Séan Ryan and P.J. Moloney, an absolute gem of an album, and the second is an overly common session tune, my interest reawakened after a master class with Martin Hayes. Matt Bashford is a fine piper from Limerick City.

ralph's watch (2.82 MB mp3 file) (Judy Hyman)

brendan - fiddles ciarán leahy - guitar

pretty bird (2.73 MB mp3 file) From "Come Sit By My Chair"

brendan - vocals, guitar brian perkins - mandolin, feet

A great song from Lui Collins. I changed it a little --er, well, I changed it a lot, but Lui still likes it.

the drunken gauger (3.05 MB mp3 file) From "Come Sit By My Chair"

brendan - fiddle brad hurley - Bb flute

An old set dance from the repertoire of Junior Crehan, who learned it from traveling dance master Pat Barron in the mid '30s.

o, thomas (3.79 MB mp3 file) From "Come Sit By My Chair"

brendan - vocals, guitar pete sutherland - fiddle

One of my own, imagining what happened to families whose homes were flooded out when the dams were made.

East Pond (1.89 MB mp3 file) From "One Sweet Chord" (Track 6 – Amazing Grace)

East Pond lies in New Hampshire's White Mountains, and a '05 Village Harmony session stood on its shore and sang one of the songs I had taught them. I wanted to remember that moment, and had been wanting to create a version of Amazing Grace without that whole business of being a wretch and thus "East Pond" was born.

chasm lake (2.41 MB mp3 file) (Northern Harmony)

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