Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for An Irish Evening. Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast by The Chieftains

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Artist NameThe Chieftains
Album TitleAn Irish Evening. Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
MusiciansMartin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals), Matt Molloy (flute), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, keyboards), with Nanci Griffith and Roger Daltrey (vocals) and various others.
Source and
other information		BMG 09026 60916-2, 1992. Recorded 31 July and 1 Aug. 1991 in Belfast. Not indexed here: tracks 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, and 1st tune on track 8.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
3333		 Air Dóchas
2 Tune Info
1212		 March March of the King of Laois, The / The King of Laois / King of Laois
3 Tune Info
1921		 JigD Tom Billy's / Tom Billy's #1 / Tom Billy's 1 / Tom Billy's Jig / Paddy's Jig
4 Tune Info
2052		 Reel O'Rourke's / O'Rourke's Reel / O'Rorke's Reel / O' Rourke's Wild Irishman / The Wild Irishman / The Sligo Chorus / O'Keefe's (1st in set The Westport Chorus on IDM 1) (also in D)
5 Tune Info
308		 Reel Chattering Magpie, The / Chatterin Magpie / An Mheaig Chabach / Gun in the Thatch
21 Tune Info
3322		 Song North Amerikay
31 Tune Info
3334		 March Lilly Bolero
2 Tune Info
3335		 March White Cockade, The / An Cnota Bán (5th in Freedom for Ireland Polka Set on KR) (also in D; also as songs Uaill-chumha na Féinne, A Highland Lad My Love Was Born)
51 Tune Info
3336		 Song Red Is the Rose (also as air Sláinte na nGaodhal / Slainte na n Ghaodhal / Slainte na nGhaodhal included here)
61 Tune Info
1230		 Reel Mason's Apron, The / Naprún an tSaoir / Práiscín an Mhásúin / Práiscín an tSaoir Chloiche / (as Micho Russell's Mason's Apron on FG 6) / The Mason's Cap / The Mason Laddie / Lady Carbury / Gallagher's / Wake-Up, Susan / Wake up, Susan / Wake Susan / Carton's Reel / Carton's / (also in G or E, also with up to 7 parts, the extra parts being composed by Sean Maguire) (compare American tune Jack of Diamonds included here)
82 Tune Info
1848		 SetD An Suisin Bán / An Súisín Bán / Súisín Ban / An Súistín Bán / An Cúisín Bán / The Suisheen Bawn / The White Blanket / The White Cushion / The White Flail (wide range of settings)
3 Tune Info
748		 Reel Good Morning to Your Nightcap / Good Morning to Your Night Cap / Good Morning, Nightcap / Good Morning, Nightcap? / Good Morning Nightcap / Morning Nightcap / Michael Coleman's / Shifting Gravel / Drunken Police Car / Over the Waves (untitled tune following Farrell O'Gara on MC) (also with parts reversed; the common practice of starting with the high part - as written here - often seems to be a choice made for the sake of a nice transition between a preceding tune and this tune; also in G)
4 Tune Info
3161		 Song Galway Races, The
5 Tune Info
1003		 Reel Jolly Tinker, The / Tiampan Reel (also with 5th part 1st, or without 5th part) (compare The Hen and Her Clutch #2810 and The Jolly Tinker #1002; compare 3rd and 5th parts with Tinker's Reel #4503; compare 1st part with 2nd part of Tinker's Frolic #4518)
111 Tune Info
395		 Hpipe An Comhra Donn / Comhra Donn / An Comhra na dTonn / An Cora Donn / The Brown Chest / Sonny Brogan's / Ó Murchú's Hornpipe / Humours of Tullycreen / The Sound of the Waves / Durham Rangers (also appears a 2nd time on JnKlly, mislabeled as Unknown / Thady Casey's / Frieze Britches; 1st in set Thunderhead on SS 2; for 5th figure of Borlin Valley Polka Set on MISD 6) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Durham Rangers #2097)
2 Tune Info
1779		 Air Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile / Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile / Sliabh geal gua na Feile / Sliabh Geal gCua / The White Mountain / An Céileabhradh Caoine (also as song, included here) (composed by Pádraig O Maillé)
3 Tune Info
2035		 JigD Wandering Minstrel, The / Wandering Minstrel / An Ceoltóir Fánach / The Dandy Scholar / Jackson's / Michael Coleman's / The Fair Maidens / Merry Maiden / Willy Walsh's (compare Willy Walsh's; compare 1st 2 parts with Wandering Minstrel #4882; compare 1st part with 1st part of The Merry Maiden included here)
121 Tune Info
891		 Hpipe Independent, The / The Independent Hornpipe / Independence Hornpipe / Damhsa (also in F)
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