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.
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…
Reel More…
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…
Jig - with variations and ornamentation More…
Slip Jig, very akin to the O'Neill version but differs from the Goodman MS setting (half a century or more earlier.) More…
The second of two polkas in the American hoe-down style. From the 5th Movement (Endurance) of the Bound for Canada orchestral / choral suite by renowned Irish composer, Odhrán Ó Casaide. More…
The first of two polkas in the American hoe-down style. From the 5th Movement (Endurance) of the Bound for Canada orchestral / choral suite by renowned Irish composer, Odhrán Ó Casaide More…
The second of two hornpipes, at the end of the 1st Movement of the Bound for Canada orchestral / choral suite, by renowned traditional Irish and classical composer and violinist / fiddler Odhrán Ó Casaide. More…
The first of two hornpipes, at the end of the 1st Movement of the Bound for Canada orchestral / choral suite, by renowned traditional Irish and classical composer, Odhrán Ó Casaide. … More…