THERE WAS A LADY

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

WSRN 91.5 fm Swarthmore
Spring 1998: 10-11 a.m. Saturdays

Fall '98: 10-12 a.m. Saturdays


7 February 1998

- There Was a Lady: Triona Ni Dhonmhnaill with Relativity
- Patrick Street: Jenny Picking Cockles/An Gabhran/Jack Keane's Reel (Heart of the Gaels)
All four founding members of Patrick Street -- Kevin Burke on fiddle, Jackie Daly on button accordian, Arty McGlynn on guitar, and Andy Irvine on bouzouki -- are living legends in Irish music. Their awesome talents drive this great three-reel medley.
- Altan: Donal agas Morag (Heart of the Gaels)
- Dervish: Set of 3 traditional Irish jigs (At the End of the Day)
- Kevin Burke: Sligo Maid/Woman of the House/Sailor's Bonnet (Sweeney's Dream)
- The Chieftains: The Iron Man/The Marquis of Tully Baratine/The Forfeit o'Da Ship (Chieftains Celebration)
- Jerry O'Sullivan: Colonel Fraser (GL 20th Anniversary)
- Dervish: Sheila Nee Iyer (At the End of the Day)
- Sileas: Puirt-a-beul (Heart of the Gaels)
Puirt-a-beul is Gaelic for "mouth music." Puirt is most basically fiddle or pipe tunes that are sung or "jigged," often using nonense words or syllables, or vocables. This particular bit is Scottish, in three tumbling segments that are just fun to listen to.

- Alasdair Fraser: Dawn Dance (Dawn Dance)
A less traditional modern tune composed by Alasdair Fraser, perhaps Scotland's most amazing fiddler. He plays here with the equally amazing Chris Norman on piccolo and Eric Rigler on uillean pipes.

- Reeltime: Gort to Texas to Honolulu (GL 20th Anniversary)
- The Tannahill Weavers: The Carls of Dysart/The Log Splitter Set (Choice Cuts)
- The Boys of the Lough: Hop High Ladies (Good Friends -- Good Music)
- The Boys of the Lough: Kitchen Girl/Da New Riggit Ship
- Phil Cunningham: The Four Stroke Reel/Martin O'Connor's Flying Clog/The Four Stroke Reel (Heart of the Gaels)
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14 February 1998

- Relativity: There Was A Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Cherish the Ladies: A Neansai Mhile Gra (New Day Dawning)
- Silly Wizard: Lover's Heart (GL 20th Anniversary)
- Dervish: An Eirinn Ni Neosfainne Ce Hi (At the End of the Day)
- Dervish: The Ploughman (Harmony Hill)
- Cathie Ryan: Roisin Dubh (There Was a Lady)
- Dervish: I courted a wee girl (At the End of the Day)
- Mary Dillion with Deanta: Willie Taylor (There Was a Lady)
- Cherish the Ladies: The Galway Rover (New Day Dawning)
- Andy M. Stewart and the Tannahill Weavers: Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie? (Choice Cuts)
- Dervish: A Stor mo Chroi (Harmony Hill)
- Tannahill Weavers: Wild Mountain Thyme (Choice Cuts) -- "If Scottish folk music has an anthem, this is it."
- Cherish the Ladies: Green Grow the Rushes Oh (New Day Dawning) -- Robert Burns

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21 February 1998

- Relativity: There Was Lady (There Was a Lady)
- The Boys of the Lough: Breton Wedding March/The Wild Irishman/The Scholar (Good Friends -- Good Music)
- Eoghan O'Sullivan & Gerry Harrington: Charlie Mulvihill's/The Humours of Lisheen/Tom Connor's (The Smokey Chimney)
- Kornog: Gavottes: Gavotten Ar Menez (Heart of the Gaels)
- Skylark: Limber Up/The Contradiction Reel/The New Line to Dublin (Heart of the Gaels)
- Breanndan O Beaglaoich: The Bicycle/An Bothar o Thuaidh (Breanndan O Beaglaoich)
- The Tannahill Weavers: The Blackbird Set (Choice Cuts)
- Solas: Nil Na La (Solas)
- The Boys of the Lough: Da Cold Nights o' Winter/Da Blue Yow/Da Spirit o' Whiskey (A Midwinter's Night Dream)
- Milladoiro: Foliada de Berducido (As Fadas de Nome)
- Patrick Street: Dennis Murphy's Reel/The Bag of Spuds/MacFarley's Reel (All in Good Time)
- Cherish the Ladies: The Cameronian Set (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection)
- Solas: The Flowing Bowl/Maire Breathnach's #1/The Doon/The Mason's Men (Solas)
- Cherish the Ladies: Broken Wings (New Day Dawning)

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28 February 1998

- Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Alasdair Fraser: First Light/Dawn Rant (Dawn Dance)
- Alasdair Fraser: Dawn Dance (Dawn Dance)
- Kevin Burke, Christian LeMaitre, Johnny Cunningham: Farewell to Ireland/FoxhunterĠs Reel (Celtic Fiddle Festival Encore)
- Solas: Dougie MacDonald's/Maire Breathnach's #2/The Antrim Rose/Altantic Wave/Toss the Feathers (Solas)
- Nomos: I'm going to set you free (Set You Free)
- Christian LeMaitre: Marches and gavottes pourlet (Celtic Fiddle Festival Encore)
- Natalie MacMaster: John Campbell's/Miss Ann Moir's Birthday/Lady Georgina Campbell/Angus on the Turnpike/Sheehan's Reel (Fit as a Fiddle)
- Patrick Street: Jenny Picking Cockles/An Gabhran/Jack Keane's Reel (Heart of the Gaels)
- Patrick Street: A Prince Among Men (All in Good Time)
- The Boys of the Lough: Canadian Waltz (Good Friends -- Good Music)
- Altan: Donal agus Morag (Heart of the Gaels)

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21 March 1998

- Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Cherish the Ladies: The Cat Rambles to the Child's Saucepan/Maire O'Keefe/Harry Bradshaw's (One and All)
- Niamh Parsons and the Loose Connections: The Briar and the Rose (Her Infinite Variety)
- Natalie MacMaster: The Girls at Martinfield/Bennett's Favorite/The Green Fields of Glentown (Fit as a Fiddle)
- Altan: The Jug of Punch (There Was a Lady)
- Bonnie Rideout: Brown Milkmaid/Bewitching Eyed Brown Maid (Kindred Spirits)
- Deanta: Culloden's Harvest (GL 20th Anniversary)
- Eileen Ivers: Pachelbel's Frolics (Eileen Ivers)
- Joanie Madden: Cat's Meow/Partners in Crime (Her Infinite Variety)
- Cherish the Ladies: Inisheer (Putting on Airs)
- June Tabor: No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest (GL 20th Anniversary)
- Cherish the Ladies: The Back Door (One and All)

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28 March 1998

- Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Dervish: The Fair Maid (Harmony Hill)
- Trian: The Music Book/Bela Bartok's Highland (Trian II)
- Open House: Crowley's Reel/The House of Hammill/The Mulligar Races (Open House)
- Joe Burke and Andy McGann: Andy McGann's/The Ballinasloe Fair (Joe Burke and Andy McGann)
- Moving Cloud: Chinese Polka/William Durette's Clog/The Boys of the Lough (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
- Natalie MacMaster: O'er the Moor.... (Fit as a Fiddle)
- Planxty: The Queen of the Rushes/Paddy Fahy's Jig (Words and Music)
- The Boys of the Lough: Farewell to Gibralter/Captain Horne/The High Road to Linton (Good Friends -- Good Music)
- The Tannahill Weavers: Cambelton Kiltie Ball (Choice Cuts)
- Patrick Street: Dennis Murphy's Reel/The Bag of Spuds/MacFarley's Reel (All in Good Time)
- Open House: Glory in the Meeting House (Open House)
- Dervish: Josefin's Waltz (At the End of the Day)

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4 April 1998

- Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Irish Tradition: Loftus Jones (GL 20th)
- Solas: The White Petticoat/Stan Chapman's/The Miller's Maggot (Solas)
- The Boys of the Lough: The Humours of Ennistymon/The First House in Connaught/Roll Her in the Rye-Grass
- Dervish: Sheila Nee Iyer (At the End of the Day)
- Altan: Drowsy Maggie/Rakish Paddy/Harvest Storm (The Best of Altan)
- Bonnie Rideout: Miss Gordon/Craigellachie Lassies/Mrs. Drummond (Kindred Spirits)
- Cherish the Ladies: The Burren/Kilty Town (Cherish the Ladies)
- Milladoiro: Foliada de Berducido (As Fadas de Estrano Nome)
- Altan: Si do Mhaimeo (The Best of Altan)
- Open House: La Partida (Open House)
- Andy Stewart and Manus Lunny: Tae the Weaver's Gin Ye Go
- Alasdair Fraser: Eilidh's Frolic (Dawn Dance)
- The Tannahill Weavers: The Good Drying Set (Choice Cuts)

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18 April 1998
In honor of the masters of the Celtic fiddle

- Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Gerry Harrington & Eoghan O'Sullivan: I'd Rather Be Married than Left/Gleanntan Frolics/Nora Chrionna (The Smokey Chimney)
- Martin Hayes: The Bucks of Oranmore (The Lonesome Touch)
- The Boys of the Lough (Vincent Griffin): Down the Broom/The Gatehouse Maid (Good Friends -- Good Music)
- Natalie MacMaster: The Lass of Carrie Mills/Lennox's Love to Blantyre/Archie Menzies/Reichwall Forest (Fit as a Fiddle)
- Kevin Burke: The Strayaway Child (Sweeney's Dream)
- Eugene O'Donnell: The Celtic Lament (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
- Kevin Burke/Johnny Cunningham/Christian LeMaitre: Farewell to Ireland/Foxhunter's Reel (Celtic Fiddle Festival Encore)
- Bonnie Rideout: Miss Stewart's/My Wife's a Drunkard/Susan Cooper/A.S. Scott (Kindred Spirits)
- Sean Keane: The Baker/Miss Mary Walker/The Hawk/The Marquis of Huntly (Jig It in Style)
- Liz Carroll: Miss McLeod's/Wissahickon Drive/Fermoy Ladies/Morse Avenue (Cherish the Ladies)
- Alasdair Fraser: Free Rein (Dawn Dance)

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25 April 1998
Slightly off the beaten path....

- Relativity: There Was a Lady (There Was a Lady)
- Deanta: At the Crossroads (Whisper of a Secret)
- Jerry O'Sullivan: The Green Fields of Canada (Gaelic Roots)
- Seamus Egan & John Williams: Emily's Reel/Flowing Bowl/Mason's Men (Gaelic Roots)
- Open House: The Okarina/The Tattoo (Hoof and Mouth)
- Alasdair Fraser: Wooden Whale/Leaps and Bounds/Skye Barbeque (Dawn Dance)
- Eileen Ivers: Scatter the Mud (Wild Blue)
- The Boys of the Lough: Da Fields o' Foula/Garster's Dream/Da Brif (Midwinter Night's Dream)
- The House Band: Pharoh (Green Linnet 20th Anniversary)
- Wolfstone: Clueless (Piping Hot)
- Patrick Street: Maurice O'Keefe's/Maurice O'Keefe's/Sonny Rearden's (Made in Cork)
- Natalie MacMaster: Catharsis (No Boundaries)
- Eileen Ivers: Blue Groove (Wild Blue)


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