THERE WAS A LADY

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26 September 1998

* There Was a Lady - Relativity (There Was a Lady)
* Jenny Picking Cockles/An Gabhran/Jack Keane's Reel - Patrick Street (Heart of the Gaels)
* Donal agus Morag - Altan (Heart of the Gaels)
* Carls o' Dysart - Tannahill Weavers (Choice Cuts)
* Touching Cloth - Dervish (At the End of the Day)
* Ward's Favorite/The Morning Star/ The Star of Munster/Laington's Reel - Kevin Burke (celtic Fiddle Fest Encore)
* Chery Blossom Waltz - Tony Ellis (Gaelic Roots)
* Dans Loudieg - Kornog (Green Linnet 20th Anniverary Collection)
* Jug of Punch - Altan (There Was a Lady)
* Set - Natalie MacMaster (Gaelic Roots)
* I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her - Dervish (Playing With Fire)
* Nil Na La - Solas (Solas)
* Muineira de Chantada - Milladoiro (Heart of the Gaels)
* Samuel the Weaver/The Panda/Thunderhead/The Cannongate Twitch/ Allan MacDonald's - Thannahill Weavers (Heart of the Gaels)
* Green Grow the Rushes Oh - Cherish the Ladies
* Hector the Hero - Johnny Cunningham (Celtic Fiddle Fest Encore
* Humours of Ballyloughlin/Knockagow - Eileen Ivers (Eileen Ivers)
* Character's Polka/The Warlock/The Volunteer/The Donegal Traveller - Cherish the Ladies (The Back Door)
* Sheila Nee Iyer - Dervish (At the End of the Day)
* Kitchen Girl/Da New-Riggit Ship - The Boys of the Lough (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* The Good Drying Set - Tannahill Weavers (Choice Cuts)
* The Dionne Reel/Mouth of the Tobique - Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham, Christian LeMaitre (Celtic Fiddle Festival)
* Puirt a beul - Sileas (Heart of the Gaels)
* The Dark Island - Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham, Christian LeMaitre (Celtic Fiddle Fest Encore)


3 October

* Paddy O'Brien's/Toss the Feathers/Jenny Dang the Weaver - Cherish the Ladies (The Back Door)
* Wheels of the World - Dervish (Playing With Fire)
* Johnny's Big Set - Johnny Cunningham (Celtic Fiddle Fest Encore)
* Welcome Poor Paddy Home -- The Boys fo the Lough (Welcome Poor Paddy Home)
* Rosemary Brown - Aly Bain (Lonely Bird)
* Pady Fahy's Reel/Ewe Reel - Moving Cloud (Foxglove)
* Gaelic Mouth music - The Boys of the Lough (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* Glory in the Meeting House - Open House (Open House)
* Loch Tayside Set - Tannahill Weavers (Epona)
* Cadam Woods/Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord - The Boys of the Lough (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* The MacNeils of Ugadale/Maclaine of Loch Bruie - Natalie MacMaster (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Cat in the Corner/John Naughton's Jig - Martin Hayes (The Lonesome Touch)
* Galway Hornpipe/Dessie O'Connor's/Moher Reel - Cherish the Ladies (The Back Door)
* Fahy's Jig/Tap Room/The Maid Who Left the County - Moving Cloud (Foxglove)
* Open House/Two to the Bar/Porter for Three - Open House (Open House)
* Kerryman's Daughter/The Funny Reel/Castle Kelly - Joe Burke and Andy McGann (The Funny Reel)
* Limber Up/Contradiction Reel/New Line to Dublin - Skylark (Heart of the Gaels)
* Gillian's Reel/Charles Sutherland/Donald Stewart the Piper - Aly Bain (Lonely Bird)
* The Queen of Argyll - Silly Wizard (Live)
* There Were Roses - Mick Moloney, et al. (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Let Down the Blade - Dervish (Playing with Fire)
* The White Petticoat/Stan Chapman's/Miller's Maggot - Solas (Solas)
* Snowdrops - Tony Ellis and Debbie Norris (Gaelic Roots)
* Humours of Ballyconnell/Reel Eboulement/Richie Dwyer's - Trian (Trian II)
* Miss Shepard/Sweeney's Buttermilk - Silly Wizard (Live)
* Tatter Jack Walsh/King's Fancy - Gerry O'Connor and Daithi Sproule (Gaelic Roots)
* Maire Mhor - Cherish the Ladies (The Back Door)
* Humours of Dingle - Johnny O'Leary (Gaelic Roots)
* Aly's Waltz - Aly Bain (Lonely Bird)


24 October
"... Singing songs to pass the time away ..." -- "Song for Ireland"

* There Was a Lady - Relativity (There Was a Lady)
* The Big Reel of Ballynacally/The High Hill/Flash Away the Pressing Gang - Solas (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Coal Quay Market - Cherish the Ladies (The Back Door)
* The Winding Stairs/Rise a Mile - Patrick Street (Made in Cork)
* No Man's Land - Barley Bree (No Man's Land)
* If Ever You Were Mine - Jerry O'Sullivan (Putting On Airs)
* Ramblin' Rover - Silly Wizard (Live)
* Down the Broom/The Gatehouse Maid - The Boys of the Lough (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* Spanking Maggie from the Ross - Patrick Street (Made in Cork)
* Red is the Rose - Full Moon Ensemble (Safe Harbour)
* Song for Ireland - Dick Gaughan (Heart of the Gaels)
* The Bard of Armagh - Tommy Makem (The Bard of Armagh)
* Lone Shanakyle - Deanta (Putting on Airs)
* The Galway Rover - Cherish the Ladies (New Day Dawning)
* McFarley's/Mill na Maidi - Altan (Her Infinite Variety)
* Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie - The Tannahill Weavrs (Choice Cuts)
* Fiddle and Bow - Natalie MacMaster (No Boundaries)
* Swing Waltz - Moving Cloud (Foxglove)
* Wild Mountain Thyme - Full Moon Ensemble (Safe Harbour)
* When the Kye Come Hame - THe Tannahill Weavers (Epona)
* Maire Mhor - Cherish the Ladies (The Back Door)
* The Newry Highwayman - Solas (Solas)
* The Flail/Paddy Dory's/The Pride of Leinster - The Boys of the Lough (Good Friends -- Good Music)
* Both Sides the Tweed - Capercaillie (Heart of the Gaels)
* Culloden's Harvest - Deanta (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
* Hop-High Ladies - The Boys of the Lough (GOod Friends -- Good Music)
* Nil Na La - Solas (Solas)


31 October

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Alasdair Fraser: First Light/Dawn Rant (Dawn Dance)
* Alasdair Fraser: Dawn Dance (Dawn Dance)
* The Boys of the Lough: The Boys of the Lough/Slanty Gart (The Boys of the Lough)
* Kornog: Gavottes (Heart of the Gaels)
* Cherish the Ladies: Roaring Mary/The Banshee (Fathers and Daughters)
* Reeltime: Swaggering Jigs (Live It Up)
* The Boys of the Lough: When Sick is it Tea You Want? (Welcome Poor Paddy Home)
* Silly Wizard: The Parish of Dunkeld (Live)
* Aly Bain: Midnight on the Water/Bonaparte's Retreat (Lonely Bird)
* Moving Cloud: Knockagoshel/Ryan's/Come West Along the Road (Foxglove)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie (Choice Cuts)
* The Boys of the Lough: In Praise of John McGee (The Boys of the Lough)
* Skyedance: Midnight on Raasay/The Braemar Cappucino (Way Out to Hope Street)
* The House Band: Donald MacKennan's TUning Phrase/The Zakynthos (October Song)
* Zan McLeod: Miriam's Waltz (Gaelic Roots)
* Cherish the Ladies: The Tempest/Smash the Windows/Lad O'Beirne's (Cherish the Ladies)
* Dercish: Killavill Set (At the End of the Day)
* Seamus Egan, John Williams, Tony Cuffe: Emily's Reel/Flowing Bowl/The Masons' Men (Gaelic Roots)
* Silly Wizard: Humours of Tulla/Toss the Feathers/St. Anne's Reel/Lexy McAskill/THe Limerick Lasses/Jean's Reel (Live)
* Moving Cloud: Shelly River Waltz/New Year's Waltz (Foxglove)
* Full Moon Ensemble: Ostinello's Hornpipe (Safe Harbour)
* The House Band: Three Rusty Swords/The Dusty Miller (October Song)
* Reeltime: The Trucks of Bohermore (Live It Up)
* Dervish: The Ploughboy (Harmony Hill)


7 November Love lorn, love lost

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Sharon Shannon: Mouth of the Tobique (Each Little Thing)
* Martin Hayes: My Love is in America (The Lonesome Touch)
* Skyedance: Skyedance Reels (Way out to Hope Street)
* Eileen Ivers: The Red-Haired Lassie/Paddy O'Brien's/The Scholar (So Far)
* Altan: Mo Choill (There Was a Lady)
* The Full Moon Ensemble: The Carraroe Jig/The Blarney Pilgrim (Safe Harbor)
* Cherish the Ladies: Highway to Kilkenny (New Day Dawning)
* Moving Cloud: Byrne's Hornpipe/The Yellow Cow/Flowers of the Red Mill (Foxglove)
* Silly Wizard: The Blackbird (Live)
* Johnny Cunningham: Waulkin o' the Fauld (Putting on Airs)
* Reeltime: Guiness in Germany (Live It Up)
* Dervish: Calin Rua (Playing with Fire)
* Skyedance: Way Out to Hope Street (Way Out to Hope Street)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Blackbird Set (Choice Cuts)
* The House Band: War Hent Barc'hed/Le Bon Chien/Derobee de Broons/Derobee (October Song)
* Aram: An Blew Trghys (Riptide)
* Aly Bain: Junior's Waltz (Lonely Bird)
* Natalie MacMaster: John Campbell's/Miss Ann Moir's Birthday/Lady Georgina Campbell's/Angus on the Turnpike/Sheehan's Reel (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Solas: The Yellow Tinker/Cranking Out/Master Crowley's #2 (Solas)
* Frankie Kennedy: An Feochan (Putting on Airs)
* Deanta: Dark Iniseoghain (There Was a Lady)
* Cherish the Ladies: If Ever You Were Mine (The Back Door)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Braes of Glennifer (Epona)
* Patrick Street: Bring Back the Child/Paiden O'Rafferty's (Made in Cork)
* Silly Wizard: The Broom of the Cowden Knowles (Live)


14 November

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Nomos: Scolloway Lasses (Set You Free)
* Cherish the Ladies: Joe Ryan's Barn Dance Set (Her Infinite Variety)
* Solas: Sraid an Cloig (The Words That Remain)
* Cherish the Ladies: Lord Mayo (New Day Dawning)
* Capercaillie: Rob Roy Reels (To the Moon)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Lord Drummond (Epona)
* Full Moon Ensemble: Two Irish Miles (The Road to Drumleman)
* Dervish: Virginia Set (Harmony Hill)
* The House Band: Seven Yellow Gypsies (October Song)
* Patrick Street: Midnight Ramble/The Bogman/The Old Stage (Made in Cork)
* Reeltime: Garfield's Swing (Live It Up)
* Skyedance: Reel de Flores (Way Out to Hope Street)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Are Ye Sleepin Maggie (Choice Cuts)
* Natalie MacMaster: Couselor's/Rakes of Kildare/The Lark in the Morning (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Andy McGann and Joe Burke: Humours of Bundon/Planxty Browne/The Orange Rogue (The Funny Reel)
* Seamus Ennis: Gillian's Apples/The Walls of Liscarroll/The Stone in the Field (The Wandering Minstrel)
* Tannahill Weavers: Westlin Winds (Epona)
* Altan: Jimmy Lyon's/Leslie's Reel (Her Infinite Variety)
* Solas: I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight (Solas)
* Natalie MacMaster: I'll Always Remember You (Fit As A Fiddle)
* Anam: Belgarth's Waltz (Riptide)
* Full Moon Ensemble: O That I Were on Parnassus Hill (Safe harbor)
* Silly Wizard: Scarce o' Tatties/Lyndhurst (Live)
* Deanta: Willie Taylor (There Was a Lady)
* Eileen Ivers: East Neuk of Fife (Eileen Ivers)
* Natalie MacMaster: Set (Fit as a Fiddle)


21 November

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Cherish the Ladies: Jessica's Polka/Tear the Calico/I Have No Money (One and All)
* Patrick Street: Frank Quinn's/Lad O'Beirne's/Murphy's Reel (All in Good Time)
* Reeltime: The Mountains of Pomeray (Live It Up)
* Full Moon Ensemble: McIntosh Farm (The Road to Drumleman)
* Tommy Keane and Jacqueline McCarthy: The West Cork Reel/Paddy Fahy's (The Wind Among the Reeds)
* Altan: Dulaman (The Best of Altan)
* Matt Molloy and Sean Keane: The Golden Keyboard/Mayor Harrison's Fedora (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Patrick Street: Mouth of the Tobique/Billy Wilson (All in Good Time)
* Full Moon Ensemble: The Gloomy Night Is Gathering Fast (The Road to Drumleman)
* Tannahill Weavers: Campelton Kiltie Ball (Choice Cuts)
* Natalie MacMaster: The Autograph (No Boundaries)
* Altan: Paddy's Trip to Scotland/Dinky's/The Shetland Fiddler (Live)
* Tannahill Weavers: The Athol Gathering (Leaving St. Kilda)
* Skyedance: Walking the Plank (Way Out to Hope Street)
* Cherish the Ladies: Declan's Waltz/Waltz Duhamel (One and All)
* Solas: Mom's Jig/Bill Nicholson's 67th (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* The House Band: Rock in the Mountain (October Song)
* De Danann: Song for Ireland (Song for Ireland)
* Eugene O'Donnell: I Won't See You Anymore, My Dear (Slow Airs and Set Dances)
* Mike and Mary Rafferty: The Chattering Magpie/The Flax in Bloom (The Dangerous Reel)
* Patrick Street: Lintheads (All in Good Time)
* The Boys of the Lough: Eugene Stratton's/The Constitution/President Garfield's (Welcome Poor Paddy Home)
* Moving Cloud: Mooney' Mazurka/Kinloch/Hunours of Toomagh (Foxglove)
* Dervish: Drag Her Round the Road (At the End of the Day)
* Mike and Mary Rafferty; Trip to Parliment/The Torn Jacket (The Dangerous Reel)
* Tannahill Weavers: The Three Healths (Leaving St. Kilda)


5 December

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* The Whistlebinkies: Quicksteps (Inner Sound)
* Moving Cloud: Old Tanglefoot/Southern Shore (Foxglove)
* The Full Moon Ensemble: The Swallowtail Jig/Calliope House/The Cowboy Jig (The Road to Drumleman)
* Solas: Ailillu na Gamhna (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* Eileen Ivers: Geese in the Bog/The Wandering Minstrel/The PRide of Moyvane/The Low Road to Glin/The High Road to Glin (Eileen Ivers)
* Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde: Misteriou joaius (Noels Celtiques)
* Brendan Mulvihill: Rathlin Island (Putting on Airs)
* Solas: Dougie MacDonald's/Maire Breathnach's #2/The Antrim Rose/Atlantic Wave/Toss the Feathers (Solas)
* The Tannahill Weavers: The Geese in the Bog/Jig of Slurs (THe Best of the Tannahill Weavers, 1979-1989)
* Cherish the Ladies: Pepin Arsenault/The Shepard's Daughter/A Punch in the Dark (The Back Door)
* Silly Wizard: Donald McGillavry (Live)
* Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde: Nedelog (Noels Celtiques)
* The Boys of the Lough: The Greenland Man's Tune/Da Forfit o' da Ship/Green Grow da Rashes (A Midwinter Night's Dream)
* The Whistlebinkies: The Whistlebinkies' Jig (A Wanton Fling)
* Bonnie Rideout: Kindred Spirits (Kindred Spirits)
* Dervish: Josefin's Waltz (At the End of the Day)
* The Boys of the Lough: The Wexford Carol (A Midwinter Night's Dream)
* Sean Potts: An Buachaill Caol Dubh (Gaelic Roots)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Farewell to Fiunary/Heather Island (The Best of the Tannahill Weavers, 1979-1989)
* Maire O'Keefe and Jackie Daly: The Plough and the Stars/George White's Fancy/The Dairymaid (Gaelic Roots)
* Reeltime: Larch on Oak (Live It Up)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Turf Lodge/The Cape Breton Fiddlers' Welcome to the Shetland Isles/Lady Margaret Stewart/The Floggon (The Best of the Tannahill Weavers, 1979-1989)
* Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde: Nedelog war ar mor (Noels Celtiques)


12 December

* Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
* Moving Cloud: Kitty's Rambles/The Cook in the Kitchen/Paidin O'Rafferty (Foxglove)
* Silly Wizard: The Parish of Dunkeld (Live)
* Solas: Primose Lass/Molly from Longford/The Four Kisses (Sunny Speels and Scattered Showers)
* Linn Barnes & Allison Hampton: The Gower Wassail (Yule)
* Kevin Burke: The King of the Fairies (Sweeney's Dream)
* Nomos: Down the Lane (Set You Free)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Robin Tamson's Smiddy (Epona)
* Cherish the Ladies: Joe Ryan's (New Day Dawning)
* Reeltime: Nashville Brats (Live It Up)
* Solas: Nil Na La (Solas)
* Dervish: The Trip to Sligo (Live in Palma)
* The Boys of the Lough: Wren Polka No. 1/Wren Polka No. 2/The Wren Chase/The Wren's Escape (Midwinter Night's Dream)
* Natalie MacMaster: My Dungannon Sweetheart/Scaffies Cairet/Juniper Jig (Fit as a Fiddle)
* Altan: Fermangh Highland/Donegal Highland/John Doherty's/King George IV (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
* Aly Bain: Rosemary Brown (Lonely Bird)
* Karan Casey: Roger the Miller (Songlines)
* Full Moon Ensemble: Chief Sitting Bull (The Road to Drumleman)
* Skyedance: Year's Turning (The Way Out to Hope Street)
* The Boys of the Lough: Da Day Dawn/The Papa Stour Sword Dance/The Cross Reel (Midwinter Night's Dream)
* Eileen Ivers: Blue Groove (Wild Blue)
* Natalie MacMaster: Reel Beatrice (No Boundaries)
* Linn Barnes & Allison Hampton: The Wexford Carol (Yule)
* Reeltime: Buachaill On Eirne (Live It Up)
* Silly Wizard: Ramblin' Rover (Live)
* The Tannahill Weavers: Good Drying Set (Choice Cuts)
* Cherish Ladies: Three Weeks We Were Wed (The Back Door)
* Solas: Paddy Taylor's/McFadden's Handsome Daughter/The Narrowback/Frank's Reel/Esther's Reel (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)
* The Bothy Band: A Jig and Five Reels (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)

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