MARCAS O'MURCHU: O BHEAL GO BEAL

Marcas O'Murchu: flute, tinwhistle, vocals

Maurice Bradley: fiddle

Peter Gallagher: accordion

Eoghan O'Brien: guitar, harp

Seamus O'Kane: bodhran

Brid McNally: piano

One of the best flute albums in recent years (released in 1997)--and also one of the longest, with 21 tracks in all--by this Belfast-born player who is in much demand as a performer and teacher. With lengthy notes on the tunes.

Rating: *** 1/2

Price: $22.99

Our Catalogue 

Contents:

1. Jis: Maho Snaps / Get Up, Old Woman, and Shake Yourself / The Chicken that Made the Soup

2. Reels: The Happy Man / Tyrone Ashplant

3. Song: M'Einin Ceoil

4. Reels: Hill 16 / The Spring Well

5. Polkas: Up and Away / The Merry Girl

6. Song Air: Geaftai Bhaile Bui

7. Slip Jigs: Barney Brannigan / Ride a Mile / The Really Dusty Millar

8. Reels: Patsy Hanley's / The Piper's Broken Finger / The Cocktail

9. Song: An Blath on tSrath Ban (The Flower of Sweet Strabane)

10. Slow Reel: The Coalminers

11. Reels: Kathleen Lawrie's Wedding / Rinn na Feirste Reel / The Donegal Reel

12. Hornpipes: The Buck from teh Mountain / McPartland's Style

13. Planxties: Henry McDermott Roe / Planxty Josie McDermott

14. Jigs: Farewell to Kennedy / The Man in the Bog / Johnny Henry's Jig

15. Song Air: An Chead Mahirt d'Fhomhar

16. Reels: The Four COurts / Paddy Taylor's

17. Polkas: Derry Polka / Fermanagh Polka

18. Song: An Bhanaltra

19. Highland Schottisches: Cluain Ard /All White in Monaghan

20. Reels: The Beauty Spot / Dinnie in the Gaeltacht / Rossinver Reel

21. Reels: The Providence / Paddy Mill's Special Dream / The Maids of Castlebar

See also:

    Turas Ceoil

    Various: Wooden Flute Obsession Vol. 1