Ann Trainor
@anntrainor · Fiddle, piano, guitar, plus basic bodhrán and tin whistle · Dublin, Ireland
Teaching the Adult Mixed-Instrument Ensemble in my local branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Continuing to learn and play Irish fiddle. I also play piano/keys.
This reel is by Paddy Fahey (1916-2019). He was a well-renowned composer and fiddler in the East Galway style, and was named TG4 Composer of The Year in 2001. About 60 of his tunes are in the general trad… More…
Many's a Wild Night is sometimes called the Ballyoran 1.… More…
Also known as 'O'Connell's Farewell to Dublin'… More…
Martin Hayes calls the last tune The Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit. The story goes that Martin had no name for the tune and finally asked Tipperary box-player, Paddy O’Brien, a storehouse of such… More…
The Fox in the Thatch is regularly played in a set after The Sunny Hills of Beara, both John Dwyer compositions. John was born in Caolrua, in West Cork, on the Beara Peninsula. He came from a family steeped… More…
John Dwyer was born in Caolrua, in West Cork, on the Beara Peninsula. He came from a family steeped in the tradition, both his parents being box players. His brothers were / are all musicians and composers.… More…
Martin Hayes calls this The Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit. The story goes that Martin had no name for the tune and finally asked Tipperary box-player, Paddy O’Brien, a storehouse of such information,… More…
This is Martin Hayes' setting in G minor. … More…
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This is the original 2-part version John himself recorded on Yeh, that's All it is, and which Altan recorded as part of a medley on Local Ground [2.04]. John later wrote a third part which he plays with… More…
Written by Mairéad for her first husband, Frankie, in the year before he died of cancer.… More…
Reel, in A Dorian (Dorian mode of G) More…
Jig - (basic - no ornamentation or variation) More…