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This popular long-running television series has been one of RTÉ’s flagship musical entertainment programmes since 1994. The DVD comprises of songs from singers in Irish and English; jigs, reels, hornpipes and airs from solo musicians and groups; step dances, set dances and ceili dances from exhibition and social dancers totalling over 2 hours of outstanding performances from across the rich spectrum of Irish Traditional Music.
Researched and presented since its inception by Nicholas Carolan, Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, there have been over 150 programmes broadcast to date. The two series have presented and contextualised discoveries from across the varied spectrum of Irish traditional music, bringing older viewers performances often forgotten or never seen back to life on screen and introducing new generations to significant musicians and music of the past. Footage is drawn chiefly from the holdings of RTÉ’s TV Programme Library for the station’s first twenty-five years, from 1961 to 1986, but also from the archives of other television stations such as Ulster Television and from film and newsreel archives such as the Irish Film Archive.
Come West Along the Road - Irish Traditional Music Treasures from RTÉ TV Archives 1960s – 1980s
The features date from as early as 1963 and include over eighty musicians, singers, and dancers. There are songs from singers in English and Irish; jigs, reels, hornpipes and airs from solo musicians and groups; step dances, set dances and ceili dances from exhibition and social dancers.
Artists include The Bothy Band, Liam O'Flynn, The Tulla Ceilidh Band, Clannad, Mary MacNamara, Martin Hayes, Paul Brady, Sean Keane, De Dannan, Tommy Peoples, Joe Cooley, Planxty, Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts, Stockton's Wing, Sean O Se & Ceoltoiri Chualann, The Dubliners, Tommy Makem, Matt Molloy, Donal Lunny and many more
Track listing:
1. Jimmy Sinnott, lilting. Hornpipe: Mullingar Races.
2. Bothy Band. Song: Pretty Peg; Reel: Gregg's Pipes.
3. Celine Hession & Donncha Ó Muimhneacháin, step dancing; Paddy Glackin, fiddle. Slip jigs: Fig for a Kiss, Kid on the Mountain.
4. Darach Ó Catháin. Song: Óro, 'Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile.
5. Liam O'Flynn, uilleann pipes. Jig: Frieze Britches.
6. Tulla Ceili Band. Reels: Pigeon on the Gate, Foxhunter's.
7. Ann Byrne & Jesse Owens. Song: Lily of the West.
8. John, John Jnr & James Kelly, fiddles. Reels: Ceathrú Cavan, Wild Irishman.
9. Clannad. Song: Téir Abhaile Riú.
10. Mary MacNamara & Martin Hayes, concertina & fiddle. Reels: John Naughton's, Tommy Coen's.
11. Swords Mummers. March, Song: Twenty Men from Dublin Town.
12. Ceoltóirí Laighean. Slide: Scattery Island Slide.
13. Paul Brady. Song: Shamrock Shore.
14. Set dancers; Tulla Ceili Band.
15. Seán Keane, fiddle. Air: Gol na mBan san Ár.
16. Willie Reynolds, uilleann pipes. Reels: Rakish Paddy, Sligo Maid.
17. Knocknagree Set Dancers; Johnny O'Leary, accordion; Michael Duggan, fiddle; Ellen O'Leary, whistle; Kathleen O'Keeffe, whistle. Slides: Ratnawaun, Hare in the Corn.
18. Pádraig Ághas; Song: An Baile Atá Láimh Léi Siúd.
19. De Danann. Jigs: Tom Billy's, Sean Ryan's; Reels: Mick Hand's, Hills of Clogher.
20. Colm Walsh. Song: Bonny Bunch of Roses.
21. Tommy Peoples, fiddle. Strathspeys; Laird of Drumblair (two versions).
22. Seán Ó Cuilleanáin (John Cullinane), step dancing; Seán Ó Cearbhaill, fiddle. Hornpipe: Liverpool.
23. Julia Clifford, Denis Murphy, fiddles; Paddy Moloney, whistle; Des Mulkere, flute. Reel: Liffey Banks.
24. Nioclas Toibin. Song: Na Pratáí Dubha.
25. Joe Cooley, accordion; Jack Cooley bodhran; Des Mulkere, banjo. Reel: Wise Maid.
26. Unknown boy. Song: Four Green Fields.
27. Session group. Reels: Lucy Campbell's, Sligo Maid.
28. Pat Keamey; Eric Benson, piano. Song: Síle Ní Ghadhra.
29. Wrenboys. Hornpipe: Harvest Home; Reel: Duke of Leinster.
30. Planxty. Song: Jolly Beggar; Reel: Wise Maid.
31. Seán 'ac Dhonncha. Song: Bean an Fhir Rua.
32. Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts, whistles; Peadar Mercier, bodhran. Reels: Connaught Heifers, Micho Russell's.
33. Gerry Cullen, Brian Leahy, Fran McPhail. Song: Bonny Light Horseman.
34. Stocktons Wing. Reels: Boys of Malin, Green Fields of Tyrol, Glass of Beer.
35. Ludlow Trio. Song: Butcher Boy.
36. Seán Ó Sé & Ceoltóirí Chualann. Song: Tá 'na Lá.
37. Dubliners. Song: I Must Away Now.
38. Denis O'Brien, whistle. Air: Ni ar Chnoc nó ar Ísleacht; Reel: Finbarr Dwyer's.
39 Tommy Makem. Song: Leaving of Liverpool.
40. Session group. Reel: Maid Behind the Bar.
41. Frank Harte. Song: Valentine O'Hara.
42. Tullyvin Ceili Band. Reels: Donegal Reel, Sheehan's, Croghan Hill.
43. Al O'Donnell. Song: Ramble Away.
44. Ceili dancers. Dance: Briseadh na Carraige (Siege of Carrick).
45. Siamsa Tire Folk Theatre. Dramatisation of song 'Casadh an tSúgáin'.
46. Matt Molloy, flute; Donal Lunny, bouzouki. Reel: Bucks of Oranmore.
47. Bonus track: Meet the People 1961.
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