Not exactly 'rare' but still always a pleasant surprise when a concertina album comes along.
The Co.Clare lass is well schooled in the traditions and her tutors and influences reads like a who's who of Irish folk music, so much so that she now teaches herself and is involved in music therapy.
And this album certainly was good for us.

1) Reels: The Honeymoon - Lough Mountain - Love At the Endings
2) Jigs: Currants for Cakes, Raisins for Everything - Scatter the Mud - Langstrom's Pony
3) Fling/Reel: Kittty Got A Clinking Coming From the Fair - The Victory
4) O'Carolan: Loftus Jones
5) Set Dances: The Humours of Bandon - The Orange Rogue
6) Reels: Tim Maloney - The Piper's Despair - The Connacht Heifers
7) Hornpipes: The Harvest Home - The Liverpool Hornpipe
8) The Joyous Waltz
9) Jigs: The Sheep In the Boat - The Luachrachan's Jig - The Legacy
10) Set Dance: The Fall of Dunboy
11) Reels: Barr na Chuille - The Ballina Lassies - Gorman's
12) Jigs: King of the Pipers - Sean Bui
13) Reels: The Knotted Chord - Jenny's Welcome to Charley - Molly Ban

Not exactly 'rare' but still always a pleasant surprise when a concertina album comes along.
The Co.Clare lass is well schooled in the traditions and her tutors and influences reads like a who's who of Irish folk music, so much so that she now teaches herself and is involved in music therapy.
And this album certainly was good for us.

Lineup

Edel Fox - Concertinas
Jack Talty - Piano
Padraic O'Reilly- Piano
Mick Connelly - Bouzouki
Brian Mooney - Bouzouki
Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh - Bodhran & Bones
Una McLaughlin - Viola & Cello
with
Jackie Daly - Accordion (Tk.8)