VARIOUS: WOODEN FLUTE OBSESSION VOLS. 1-3

Produced by Kevin Krell for the International Traditional Music Society, this is an amazing compilation of musicians and music released since 2002 on three 2-CD sets. The first collection features 40 different players, the second, 44, and the brand new third volume features 41 players, each volume representing a broad array of playing styles and repertoire. Overall, a majority of the tracks were taken from recordings commercially available otherwise, except on vol. 2 where a very significant portion of the tracks were recorded specially for that project. On that same volume 2, however, not all performances are of the highest level, so that volumes 1 and 3 can be said to be significantly better as a whole. Still, this is a unique resource for those who want to investigate the world of Irish-style flute playing and to discover who are well worth hearing even if their names aren't among the best known.

Rating: ****

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Volume 1:
CD-1
1. Garry Shannon - Reels: Windwood (The Fox on the Town / Lady of the Island / The Primrose Lass)
2. Eamonn Cotter - Reels: The Golden Keyboard/Ambrose Moloney's / Jackson's
3. Marcas Ó Murchú - Jigs: Maho Snaps / Get Up Old Woman & Shake Yourself / The Chicken That Made the Soup
4. Michael McGoldrick  - Reels: Teehan's (Terry Teehan's / Her Long Black Hair)
5. Catherine McEvoy - Reels:The Duke of Leinster / The Ladies Pantalettes
6. Marcus Hernon - Air: The Invisible Corncrake
7. Seamus Tansey - Reels: Mick Flatley's Delight / Ed Reavy's Favourite
8. Barry Kerr - Jig & Reel: Ships in Full Sail / The Three Sisters
9. Deirdre Havlin - Highland & Reel: The Mighty Clansmen (King George IV / Johnny Harling's Reel)
10. Noel Rice - Slip Jig: The Choice Wife
11. Josie McDermott - Reels: The Kerry Man / The Pigeon on the Gate
12. Laurence Nugent - Jigs: Old Hag You Have Killed Me / Pride of Erin Jig / The Monument
13. Mike Rafferty - Reels: The Hard Road to Travel / Shanks Mare
14. Loretto Reid - Waltz: Leon's Waltz
15. Liam Kelly - Piece: The Hungry Rock
16. Colm O'Donnell - Jigs:The Battering Ram / The Besom in Bloom
17. Jimmy Noonan - Reels: Courting Them All / Denis Murphy's Miss McLeod's / Billy Brocker
18. Hammy Hamilton - Reels: The Dark Haired Lass (Mick Hoy's) / Bonnie Anne
19. Turlach Boylan - Reels: Johnny's Wedding / Colonel Rodney's
20. Tom Doorley - Reels: Are You Ready Yet?
21. John Skelton - Air & Barndance: The Fire in the Hearth / Around the Fairy Fort

CD-2
1. Cathal McConnell - Jigs: Scotland-Ireland / The Hangover / The Fermanagh Curves
2. Niall Keegan - Reels: Dunmore Lasses / My Love is in America
3. John Wynne - Reels: The Ballinafad Fancy / Lady Anne Montgomery / The Millhouse
4. Martin Gaffney - Polkas: The Dark Haired Girl Dressed in Blue / The Merry Girl
5. Joanie Madden - Reels: Molly Ban / Paddy Lynn's Delite / Jack McGuire's / King of the Clans
6. Paul McGrattan - Air: Easter Snow
7. Mark Roberts - Jigs: Boys of the Town / The Rollicking Boys of Tandragee
8. Skip Healy - Reels: Silver Spear / Glen Allen / Bay of Fundy
9. Sylvain Barou - Reels: Clare's Reel / The Silver Reel / Brendan's Reel
10. Grey Larsen - Jigs: The Walls of Liscarroll / Maguire's Kick / The Lark on the Strand
11. Eoghan MacAogáin - Air: Sé Fáth Mo Bhuartha
12. Fintan Vallely - Reels: Miss Chalmer's Reel / Brian Gibson's Rockforest Reel
13. Hanz Araki - Hornpipes: The Plains of Boyle / The Ballyoran Hornpipe
14. June Ní Chormaic - Reels: Fred Finn's / Fr. Newman's Reel
15. Micho Russell - Reels: The Fermoy Lassies / The Reel with the Birl in It
16. Seamus Egan - Reels:The Maid of Galway
17. Terry Coyne - Reels: Contentment is Wealth / Tom Ward's Downfall / The Wild Geese
18. Matt Molloy - Reel: Drowsie Maggie
19. Frankie Kennedy - Reels: The Cat That Ate the Candle / Over the Water to Bessie
20. Jean-Michel Veillon - Breton Dances: Ton Per Bodouin / Dans Fisel

Volume 2
CD-1
1. Brendyn Montgomery - Reels: The Roscommon Reel / The Sweet Flowers of Miltown
2. Damien Stenson - Reels: Miss McGuiness / Paddy Gavin's
3. Tara Diamond - Jigs: The Sheep in the Boat / I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her
4. Billy Clifford - Hornpipes: Spellan the Fiddler / Madam If You Please / Grandfather's Thought
5. Brian Lennon - Reels: Colonel Rodgers Favourite / The Happy Days of Youth / Lucky in Love
6. Kevin Crawford - Reels: Hut in the Bog / Cregg's Pipes
7. John Creaven - Jigs: Killavil / Miller's Maggot
8. Mick Loftus - Jigs: The Boys of the Town / The Mist Covered Mountain
9. Emer Mayock: The Fickle Lad/On the Strand/Ollistrum
10. Duncan Davidson - Slip Jig, Jig & Reel: Gan Ainm / Trip to Athlone / Zig Zag Road
11. Desi Wilkinson - Air: My Lagan Love
12. Mike McHale - Hornpipes: McGlynn's / Dunphy's Hornpipe
13. Claire Mann - Slip Jigs: Denis Ryan's / Guzzle Together / Paddy O'Snap
14. Brian Finnegan & Sarah Allen: Larry Get Out of the Bin / Elzic's Farewell
15. Dan Gordon - Reel & 3/2: Maid in the Cherry Tree / Jack is Hunting
16. Michael Clarkson - Reels: McGovern's Favourite / Cronin's
17. Elaine Jeffreys - Reels: Feeding the Birds / Mary McMahon's
18. Dermot Grogan - Hornpipes: The Cliff Hornpipe / Gan Ainm
19. Tom McElvogue - Reels: Thrush in the Storm / The Cacodemon / The Watchmaker
20. Gary Hastings - Reels: Bonnie Anne / Hanley's
21. Harry McGowan - Jigs: The Mill Pond / Brendan Tonra's
22. Michael Hynes - Lullaby: The Cradle Song

CD-2
1. John Kelly - Reels: The Bush in Bloom / The Old Road to Garry / Captain Kelly's
2. Peter Molloy - Jigs: The Cuigiu Lassies / Freehan's Jig / The Bride's Favourite
3. Peter Horan - Hornpipes: Lad O'Bierne's / Sean Ryan's
4. Gregory Daly - Reel: Trim the Velvet
5. Justin Murphy - Jigs: The Fly in the Porter / Contentment is Wealth / Gillian's Apples
6. Sharon Creasey - Hop Jigs: The Promenade / Michael Coleman's Hop Jig / Comb Your Hair and Curl It
7. Kevin Henry & Maggie Healy - Reels: Tom Ward's / The New Policeman
8. Mick Hand - Air & Reel: Sliabh geal gua na Feile / Tomeen O'Dea's
9. Leslie Bingham - Polkas: Standfield's Polkas
10. Anthony Quigney - Reels:The Bellharbour Reel / The Torn Jacket / The Raveled Hank of Yarn
11. Chris Norman - Highland Dances: What Would You Like? / Untitled / Untitled
12. Michael Hurley - Jigs: Deirdre Hurley's / Michael Hurley's #8
13. Peter Woodley - Air: Grey Dawn Breaking
14. Michael Tubridy - Step Dance: The Blackbird
15. Noel Lenaghan - Slip Jigs: A Fig For a Kiss / The Slopes of Slieve Gullion
16. Sean Ryan (Chicago) - Reels: Saint Ruth's Bush / The Stolen Reel / Dan Breen's
17. Nuala Kennedy: Da Sixereen / The Plagiarist / Buntata's Sgadan
18. Thomas Bernard Ryan - Jigs: Brendan Tonra's / Killavil
19. Joe Skelton - Reels: Last Night's Fun / House of Hamill / The Blackthorn
20. Caoimhín Ó Sé - Jigs: The Bould Thady Quill / Sean Coughlan's Jig
21. Brendan McKinney - Hornpipe:  McGlinchey's Hornpipe
22. Zac Leger - Air & Reel: The Maid of Coolmore / The Shores of Lough Reagh

Volume 3:
CD-1
1. Gary Duffy - Slip Jigs: Rohan Conlon's Slip Jig / Darragh Conlon's Slip Jig
2. Conor Byrne - Jigs: Hurry the Jug / Francie Dearg's / Neary's Jig
3. Noel Sweeney - Reels: The Caucus at Secaucus / Lady Gordon's
4. Christy Barry - Air, Reel, Hornpipe & Reel: An Buachaillín Bán / Flanagan's Reel / McCormack's / The Cliff Dwellers
5. Geraldine McNamara - Reels: Splendid Isolation / Patrick's Night
6. Sarah-Jane Woods - Reels: The Abbey Reel / Fred Finn's
7. Desy Adams - Jigs: The Furze in Bloom / The Cat in the Corner
8. Christine Dowling - Air: The Rushes Green
9. Brendan Mulholland - Reels: O'ot Be Est da Vong / Maid Of The House
10. Nicolas Buckmelter - Reels: The Rainy Day / The New Mown Meadows
11. Brid O'Donohue - Jigs: The Chorus Jig / Coleman's Jig
12. John Lee - Reels: The Flower of the Flock / The Twelfth Lock / The Absentminded Woman
13. Frank Claudy - Reel: The Thrush in the Storm
14. Peg McGrath - Air: Easter Snow
15. Seamus Mac Conaonaigh - Reels: Maud Miller's / The Fair-Haired Boy / The Plough and the Stars
16. Nicholas & Anne McAuliffe - Polkas: The Return of Spring / The Mountain Pathway / Up and Away
17. Paddy O'Neill - Reels: It's a Hard Road to Travel / Swing Swang
18. Aoife Granville - Jigs: I Love You Not and Care For You Not / Dillon's Frolics
19. Alan Doherty - Air & Reels: Cailín na Gruaige Doinne / Peata Beag A Mháthair / Anto's Gambit
20. Claus Steinort - Reels: My Love and I in the Garden / Palmer's Gate
21. David Migoya - Reels: John Lardiner's / The Green Mountain / Glenn Allen Reel
22. Ronan Browne - Air: Rud Beag Mall

CD-2
1. Norman Holmes - Hornpipe & Reels: Garrett Barry's / Gan Ainm / Orla's Reel
2. Ciaran Somers - Reels: The Yellow Tinker / The Skylark
3. Mick Mulvey - Jigs: John Blessing's Delight / Green Fields of Miltown / Up Leitrim!
4. JP Downes - Reels: The Green Mountain / Earl's Chair
5. Shannon Heaton - Reels:The O'Connor Donn's / The Morning Thrush
6. Tina McSherry - Waltz:Tommy Bhetty's Waltz
7. Eileen Hassett - Reels: The Flowers of Limerick / The Drogheda Lasses
8. Paul McGlinchey - Reels: Follow Me Down to Carlow / Famous Ballymote / Cronin's
9. Leon Agnew - Air & Reel: Phoenix Island / Paddy Mills' Fancy
10. Kieran O'Hare & John Skelton - Jigs: Paddy Breen's / Put on Your Clothes / The Honeybee
11. Davy Maguire - Air: Port na bPúcaí
12. Louise Mulcahy - Reels: The Bag of Spuds / A View from Across the Valley / The Galway Rambler
13. Caoimhín O'Raghallaigh - Hornpipe & Reel: The Leitrim Fancy / The First House in Connacht
14. Tim Britton - Air, Jigs & Slides: Caoineadh Uí Dhomhnaill / The Haunted House / The Lark on the Strand / The Bank of Turf / Tom Billy's
15. Isaac Alderson - Reels: The Green-Gowned Lass / The Broken Pledge
16. John Rynne - Reels: Pigeon on the Gate / The Victory Reel / The London Lasses / Courting Them All
17. Mick O'Brien - Air & Jig: Táim Cortha ó Bheith im' Aonar im' Luí / Clancy Unknown #57
18. Sean Moloney - Reels: Splendid Isolation / Johnny's Wedding
19. Garry Walsh - Reels: The Cross Legged Tailor / Under the Tholsel / Eileen Fahy's