Michael Gorman :: The Sligo Champion (Double)

The Sligo Champion (Double)

Michael Gorman
Irish
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Catalogue Number: TSCD525D
Running Time: 62 + 67 mins.

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Sample track: Down The Broom / : Listen


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Disc One
1) Reels: Down the Broom - The Pigeon On the Gate
2) Michael Coleman's Hop-Jig
3) Reel: Bonnie Ann
4) The Versavienna
5) Jig: The Lark In the Morning
6) Jamesy Gannon's Barndances
7) Reels: The Anchonry Lasses - Lady Gardner's Troops
8) Hornpipes: Gorman's - The Boys of Bluehill
9) Song: The Moss o' Ballagh Fair
10) Jamesy Gannon's March
11) The Polka Mazurka
12) Reels: The Laurel Tree - The High Reel
13) Jig: The Frieze Britches
14) Reels: Farrell Gara - Ah, Surely
15) Barndances: Chaffpool Post - Jamesy Gannon's
16) Jamest Gannon's Waltz
17) Jig: Happy To Meet and Sorry To Part
18) Reels: Ships Are Sailing - The Heather Breeze
19) Untitled March
20) Jigs: Tell Her I Am - The Merry Old Woman
21) Hornpipe: The Rights of Man
22) Reel: Put the Cake In the Dresser
23) Untitled Tune in 6/8 Time (The Lancers)
24) The Keel Row (The Lancers)
25) Untitled Polka (The Lancers)
26) Reel: The College Grove
27) Reel: The Maid I Ne'er Forgot
28) Hornpipe: The Kildare Fancy
29) Reels: Miss McLeod';s - The Duke of Leinster

Disc Two
1) Reel: The Star of Munster
2) Jig: Gurney's Fancy
3) Set Dance: The Blackbird
4) The Valeta
5) Hornpipe: Chief O'Neill's Favourite
6) Reel: The Mountain Road
7) Reels: The Mountain Road - Bonnie Kate - Jenny's Chickens
8) The Chanter's Song
9) Jig: The Jolly Old Man
10) Reels: Fermoy Lasses - The Holly Bush
11) Set Dance: The King of the Fairies
12) Reel: The Burnt Cabbage
13) Song: The Banks of the Silvery Tide
14) Jigs: The Mug of Brown Ale - The Black Rogue
15) Reel: McFadden's
16) Jigs:
The Strayaway Child - The Lark In the Morning
17) Reel: Within A Mile of Dublin
18) The Dark Woman of the Glen
19) Reels: The Old Bush - The Galty
20) Song: The Turfman Fron Ardee
21) Reels: Mulhare's - Dinny O'Brien - Farewell to Connacht - Reavey's
22) Reels: The Tempest - Colonel Rodney
23) Reel: The Broken Pledge
24) Reel: The Avonmore
25) Reel: A Rainy Day
26) Jig: Happy To Meet and Sorry To Part
27) Hornpipe: The Harvest Home
28) Reels: The Bunch of Keys - The Boys of Ballisadare - The Sligo Maid - Molloy's
Nothing more than a couple of quartet pieces here. The rest are solo or duet.
Except for one set of reels from 1927, the rest came from 1951 (BBC Radio Session) through to 1972. Recorded in England, Ireland and the USA.
Nice fat 56 page booklet gives in-depth data.

Lineup

Michael Gorman - Fiddle & Vocal
with
Margaret Barry - Banjo & Vocal
Tom Gannon - Fiddle
Bertie Henry - Piano
Michael Gorman (Nephew) - Flute & Fiddle
Gerry Wimsey - Whistle
Willie Clancy - Uilleann Pipes
Paddy Breen - Flagolet
Tommy Moore - Accordion
Patsy Goulding - Piano
Mick Flynn - Flute
Jimmy Power - Fidde