THERE WAS A LADY

Bringing you the best of Celtic music
from atop Swarthmore College's Parrish Hall

WSRN 91.5 fm Swarthmore
Spring '99: 8.20-10 a.m. Saturdays


6 February 1999

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Open House: Crowley's Reel/The House of Hammill/The Mullingar Races (Open House)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Samuel the Weaver/The Panda/The Thunderhead/The Cannongat Twitch/Allan MacDonald's (Heart of the Gaels)
* Dervish: Peata Beag (At the End of the Day)
* Mike and Mary Rafferty: Argamore/Rafferty's Mustache (The Dangerous Reel)
* Kevin and Liz Carroll: The Dancing Table/Lightly Tripping/Gan Ainm (Fathers and Daughters)
* Karan Casey: An Buachallin Ban (Songlines)
* The House Band: Donald MacLennon's Tuning Phrase/The Zakythos Jug (October Song)
* Cherish the Ladies: Redican's Mother/The Humours of Westport/The Morning Dew/The Glass of Beer/Youghal Horbor (The Back Door)
* Solas: The Primrose Lass/Molly from Longford/The Four Kisses (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Reeltime: Gort to Texas to Honolulu (Green Linnet 20th Anniveresary Collection)
* Dervish: Josefin's Waltz (At the End of the Day)
* The Whistlebinkies: The Piper's Jigs (A Wanton Fling)
* Silly Wizard: The Queen of Argyll (Live)
* The Boys of the Lough: The Greenland Man's Tune/Da Forfeit o' da Ship/Green Grow da Rashes (Midwinter Night's Dream)
* Andy McGann and Joe Burke: Slieve nm mBan/Cockoo's Nest (The Funny Reel)
* Cherish the Ladies: Green Grow the Rushes Oh (There Was a Lady)
* Cherish the Ladies: If Ever You Were Mine (The Back Door)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Craigieburn Wood (Epona)
* Aly Bain: Weindia Little/Da Fashion o da Delting Lasses/Da Black Hat (Lonely Bird)
* Eileen Ivers: DNA Bourees (Wild Blue)
* Open House: The Okarina/The Tattoo (Hoof and Mouth)
* Mike and Mary Rafferty: The Road to Ballinakill/Barrel Rafferty's Jig (The Dangerous Reel)
* Solas: Tom Busby's/James O'Byrne's/The Four Posts of the Bed (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Silly Wizard: The Ramblin' Rover (Live)


13 February 1999
"But my love is fairer than any" -- "Red is the Rose"

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Sileas: Mo Dhornhnullan Fhein (Play on Light)
* Solas: Crested Hens (Solas)
* Reeltime: Siul a Ruin (There Was a Lady)
* Dervish: Kilavill Set (At the End of the Day)
* Solas: The Kilnamora Barndance/Give the Girl Her Fourpence/My Maryanne (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Galway Rover (New Day Dawning)
* Silly Wizard: The Blackbird (Live)
* Deanta: Willie Taylor (There Was a Lady)
* Dervish: I Courted a Wee Girl (At the End of the Day)
* Moving Cloud: Dan Breen's/Mick Finn's/The Heather Breeze/The Red-Haired Lass (Foxglove)
* Full Moon Ensemble: Red Is the Rose (Safe Harbor)
* Gerald Trimble: Elizabeth's Air (Putting on Airs)
* Silly Wizard: Lover's Heart (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Reeltime: Hayes & Hayes (Live It Up)
* Natalie MacMaster: Carnival March/Miller of Drone/MacKinnon's Brook/Lucy Campbell/Annie Is My Darling/Gordon Cote/Bird's Nest/Maid Behind the Bar (Fit as a Fiddle)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie/The Noose and the Ghillie (Choice Cuts)
* Dervish: The Ploughman (Harmony Hill)
* Kevin Burke: Bonnie Kate/Jennie's Chickens (Sweeney's Dream)
* Seamus Ennis: Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrell (The Wandering Minstrel)
* Alasdair Fraser: Pamela Rose Grant (Dawn Dance)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Wild Mountain Thyme (Choice Cuts)
* Kevin Burke: Love at the Ending (Sweeney's Dream)


20 February 1999

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Planxty: The Acorny Lasses/The Old Wheels of the World/The Spike Island Lasses (Words & Music)
* James Keane and Felix Dolan: Bunker Hill/The Jolly Tinker/The Galway Rover (Atlantic Wave)
* Anam: Riptide (Riptide)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Carronside Set (Epona)
* Full Moon Ensemble: The Bluebells of Scotland (Safe Harbor)
* The Boys of the Lough: Alexander's/The Green Cockade (To Welcome Paddy Home)
* Natalie MacMaster: Compliments to Sean Maguire/President Garfield/Miss Watt/Casa Loma Castle (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Solas: Unquiet Grave (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Dervish: Touching Cloth (At the End of the Day)
* Barley Bree: The Barley Grain for Me (Speak Up for Old Ireland)
* Nomos: Big John's (Set You Free)
* Reeltime: Sile (Live It Up)
* Silly Wizard: Mrs. Martha Knowles/The Pitnacree Ferryman/The New Bob (Live)
* Joe Burke: The Rights of Man (The Funny Reel)
* Altan: Jimmy Lyon's/The Teelin/The Red Crow/The Broken Bridge (The Best of Altan)
* Open House: Untitled Reel/Queen of the May/The Congress (Open House)
* The Whistlebinkies: A Bhahsa Mu Dheireadh (A Wanton Fling)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Islay Charms Set (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Dervish: Molly and Johnny (Playing with Fire)
* The Boys of the Lough: Kitchen Girl/The New-Riggit Ship (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* Cherish the Ladies: Crowley's Reel/Tom Ward's Downfall (New Day Dawning)
* Solas: The Flowing Bowl/Maire Breathnach's #1/The Doon/The Mason's Men (Solas)
* Reeltime: Garfield's Swing (Live It Up)


27 February 1999
"Do the funky Cornish game hen...." (title suggested by a listener: this show was Celtic rock/alternative/funk)

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Wolfstone: Harlequin (This Strange Place)
* Anam: Aird a Chuamhain (Riptide)
* Patrick Street: Music for a Found Harmonium (Live from Patrick Street)
* Nomos: The Boys of Tandragee (Set You Free)
* Maura O'Connell: A Stor Mo Chroi (Wandering Home)
* The Full Moon Ensemble: Aye Waukin' O (Road to Drumleman)
* Open House: Hoof and Mouth (Hoof and Mouth)
* Natalie MacMaster: The Drunken Piper (No Boundaries)
* Reeltime: Montbellew to Milan (Live It Up)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Carls o' Dysart (Choice Cuts)
* Solas: Sproggies Set (The Words that Remain)
* House Band: Rispiti/Mairtin O'Connor's (October Song)
* Skyedance: Donostia (Way Out to Hope Street)
* Wolfstone: The Arab Set (This Strange Place)
* Eileen Ivers: Maudabawn Chapel (Wild Blue)
* Alasdair Fraser: Eilidh's Frolic (Dawn Dance)
* Open House: Ducino Kolo (Hoof and Mouth)
* Anam: The House on the Hill (Riptide)
* Capercaillie: Oh Mo Dhuthaich (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Eileen Ivers: Scatter the Mud (Wild Blue)
* The House Band: Pharoh (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)


20 March 1999
"There's a dear little isle..." -- "My Own Native Land"
In honor of St. Patrick's Day

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Sileas: Planxty Crockery/Dhomhnall Dubh (Play on Light)
* Martin Hayes: Lament for Limerick (The Lonesome Touch)
* Capercaillie: Both Sides the Tweed (Heart of the Gaels)
* Skara Brae: Banchnoic Eirean Oighe (Skara Brae)
* Sileas: Miss Ann Cameron of Balvenie/Amy's Rollerskates/Paddy's Leather Breeches (Play on Light)
* Patrick Street: Braes of Moneymore (Live from Patrick Street)
* Tommy Keane & Jacqueline McCarthy: The Promenade/The Rocky Road to Dublin (The Wind Among the Reeds)
* Cherish the Ladies: My Own Native Land (The Back Door)
* Brendan Begley: The Kerry Hills (We Won't Go Home till Morning)
* Patrick Street: My Son in Amerikay (Live from Patrick Street)
* Full Moon Ensemble: Kilkelly (Safe Harbor)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Back Door (The Back Door)
* Frankie Kennedy: The Sunset (Gentle Breeze)
* Solas: The Yellow Tinker/Cranking Out/Master Crowley's #2 (Solas)
* Alasdair Fraser: Theme for Scotland (Dawn Dance)
* Deanta: Lone Shanakyle (Putting on Airs)
* Dick Gaughan: Song for Ireland (Heart of the Gaels)
* Eugene O'Donnell: The Celtic Lament (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Tommy Keane and Jacqueline McCarthy: Banish Misfortune/When the Cock Crows it is Morning (The Wind Among the Reeds)
* Dervish: Lone Shanakyle (At the End of the Day)


27 March 1999
Names are such a curious thing....

* Sileas: Dr. Florence Campbell of Jammalamadugu/Duncan Johnstone (Play on Light)
* Eoghan O'Sullivan & Gerry Harrington: I'd Rather Be Married than Left/Gleanntan Frolics/Nora Chriona (The Smoky Chimney)
* Karan Casey: The Creggan White Hare (Songlines)
* Anam: Mylie's Revenge/The Piper's Wedding (First Footing)
* Jacqueline McCarthy: The Rollicking Boys Around Tandragee/An Buachaill Dreoite/Pull the Knife and Stick it Again (The Wind Among the Reeds)
* Dervish: Molly and Johnny (Playing With Fire)
* Mattie and Deirdre Connolly: The Rambling Pitchfork/The Bride's Favorite (Fathers and Daughters)
* Mike and Mary Rafferty: Saving the Hay/The Dangerous Reel (The Dangerous Reel)
* Sharon Shannon: The Bag of Cats (Each Little Thing)
* Reeltime: Nashville Brats (Live It Up)
* Solas: Paddy Taylor's/McFaddon's Handsome Daughter/The Narrowback/Frank's Reel/Esther's Reel (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Karan Casey: The World Turned Upside Down (Songlines)
* Moving Cloud: Mooney's Mazurka/Kinloch/Humours of Toomagh (Foxglove)
* Joanie Madden: The Cat's Meow/Partners in Crime (Her Infinite Variety)
* Dervish: Drag Her Round the Road (At the End of the Day)
* Open House: Drag Her Round the Road (Hoof and Mouth)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Campbelton Kiltie Ball (Choice Cuts)
* Brendan Begley: An Pucan/We Won'd Go Home Till Morning/Nelly (We Won't Go Home Till Morning)
* Solas: The Beauty Spot (The Words That Remain)
* Anam: The Last Pint/Trim the Velvet (First Footing)
* Sharon Shannon: Rathlin Island (Each Little Thing)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Plooboy Laddies (Choice Cuts)
* Reeltime: The Swaggering Jigs (Live It Up)


3 April 1999

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Joe Burke and Andy McGann: Father Tom's Wager/The Idle Road (The Funny Reel)
* John Williams: Winnie Hayes' Jig/The Lonseome Jig (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Sileas: The Castlebay Scrap/Stuarts Rant (Play on Light)
* Martin, Gail, and Dawn Mulvihill: The Kildare Fancy/Sean Ryan's (Fathers and Daughters)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Interceltic Set (Epona)
* Kornog: Gwerz an Marc hadourig Bihan/Autrefois Disait un Guerrier/Ton Derobee (Gentle Breeze)
* Solas: The Stride Set (The Words That Remain)
* Reeltime: Guiness in Germany (Live It Up)
* Aly Bain: Midnight on the Water/Bonaparte's Retreat (Lonely Bird)
* Silly Wizard: Ramblin' Rover (Live)
* Solas: Nil Na La (Solas)
* Eileen Ivers: On Horseback (Wild Blue)
* Patrick Street: McDermott's Reel/The Plough and the Stars/Miss McCloud's Reel (Live from Patrick Street)
* Skyedance: Midnight on Raasay/The Braemar Cappucino (Way Out to Hope Street)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Carls o' Dysart (Choice Cuts)
* Dervish: Pheigin mo Chroi (Live in Palma)
* Aly Bain: Rosemary Brown (Lonely Bird)
* Anam: The Long Night (Riptide)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Cameronian Set (One and All)
* The Whistlebinkies: A Wanton Fling (A Wanton Fling)


10 April 1999

* Carol Thompson: Bonny Portmore/Fammy Power (The Peacock's Feather)
* Seamus Egan: Gan Ainm/Emily's (Gentle Breeze)
* Martin Hayes: The Cat in the Corner/John Naughton's Jig (The Lonesome Touch)
* Dervish: Let Down the Blade (Playing with Fire)
* Anam: Mo Chailin Donn (Riptide)
* Cherish the Ladies: Crowley's Reels/Tom Ward's Downfall (New Day Dawning)
* Patrick Street: McKenna's Jigs (Live from Patrick Street)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Rigs o' Rye (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Bonnie Rideout: O' A' the Airts/My Luv is Like a Red, Red Rose (Kindred Spirits)
* Milladoiro: Bruncadeiro (As Fadas de Estrano Nome)
* Skyedance: Reel de Flores (Way Out to Hope Street)
* Solas: Aililu na Gamhna (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* The Full Moon Ensemble: The Swallowtail Jig/Calliope House/The Cowboy Jig (The Road to Drumleman)
* Patrick Street: Lintheads (All in Good Time)
* Reeltime: Trucks of Bohermore (Live It Up)
* Dervish: I Courted a Wee Girl/Josefin's Waltz (Live in Palma)
* Natalie MacMaster: The Girls at Martinfield/Bennett's Favorite/The Green Fields of Glentown (Fit as a Fiddle)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Last May a Braw Wooer (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Cherish the Ladies: Galway Hornpipe/Dessie O'Connor's/The Moher Reel (The Back Door)
* Open House: Glory in the Meeting House (Open House)
* Solas: The Primrose Lass/Molly from Longford/The Four Kisses (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* The Whistlebinkies: The Wee Eddie Reel (A Wanton Fling)


17 April 1999

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Anam: Planxty Joe Burke (Riptide)
* Moving Cloud: Da Slockit Light (Foxglove)
* Silly Wizard: Miss Shepard/Sweeney's Buttermilk/McGlinchey's Reel (Live)
* Nomos: THe Scalloway Lasses (Set You Free)
* Open House: The Split Rock/The Pipe on the Hob/Blue Adder (Hoof and Mouth)
* Solas: The Grey Selchie (The Words that Remain)
* Sharon Shannon: Leaving Brittany (Each Little Thing)
* Dervish: The Hungry Rock (Playing with Fire)
* The Whistlebinkies: Cam' Ye o'er frae France (A Wanton Fling)
* Natalie MacMaster: My Friend Buddy (No Boundaries)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Cat Rambles to the Child's Saucepan/Maire O'Keefe's/Harry Bradshaw's (One and All)
* Solas: The Flowing Bowl/Maire Breathnach's #1/The Doon/The Mason's Men (Solas)
* Eileen Ivers: Ships Are Sailing (Wild Blue)
* Altan: Si Do Mhaimeo I (Best of Altan)
* Anam: Shetlag (First Footing)
* Aly Bain: Aly's Waltz (Lonely Bird)
* Open House: The Humours of Ennistymon/Old as the Hills (Open House)
* Bonnie Rideout: Miss Gordon's/Craigellachie Lassies/Mrs. Drummond (Kindred Spirits)
* Patrick Street: Stewball and the Monaghan Grey Mare (Live from Patrick Street)
* Paddy Reynolds & Charlie Mulvihill: Charlie's Aunt/Tommy's Favorite (Atlantic Wave)
* Altan: Tommy People's/The Windmill/Fintan McManus's (Best of Altan)
* Cherish the Ladies: Maire Mhor (The Back Door)
* Dervish: The Hills of Greanmore (Live in Palma)


24 April

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Sileas: Cumha Easbuig Earraghardbreal (Play on Light)
* Capercaillie: Oh Mo Dhuthaich (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Kevin Crawford: George White's Favorite/Sligo Maid (Gentle Breeze)
* Dervish: Apples in Winter (Harmony Hill)
* Anam: The Sweet Flowers of Milltown/Paddy's Trip to Lake Arthur (First Footing)
* Fourin na Feire: Cailleach an Airgid/The Return Home/Junior Crehan's (Gaelic Roots)
* Milladoiro: Airess de Pontevedra (As Fadas de Estrano Nome)
* Cathal Hayden & Paddy Keenen: Sliabh Russell/The Congress (Gaelic Roots)
* Sharon Shannon: Micho Russell's (Each Little Thing)
* Karan Casey: Martinmas Time (Songlines)
* Solas: Timmy Clifford's/The Return Home/O'ot be Est da Voug/John Joe Casey's (Solas)
* Solas: Gan Ainm/The Humours of Whiskey/Leslie's March (Solas)
* Natalie MacMaster: The Honeysuckle (No Boundaries)
* John Allan Cameron: The Kitchen Set (Glencoe Station)
* Aly Bain: Junior's Waltz (Lonely Bird)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Braes of Glennifer (Epona)
* Cherish the Ladies: Inisheer (Putting on Airs)
* Patrick Street: Three Slides (Live from Patrick Street)
* The House Band: Three Rusty Swords/The Dusty Miller (October Song)
* Cherish the Ladies: Character's Polka/ The Warlock/The Volunteer/The Donegal Traveller (The Back Door)
* Open House: Tour de Taille (Hoof and Mouth)
* Dervish: I buried me wife and danced on top of her (Live in Palma)


1 May


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