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Music-direct has been set up specifically to allow the musicians from the Lough Allen Region access to that wider audience and to allow the audience access to major talents that previously remained hidden from a global audience.

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TWELVE SONGS OF Lovely Leitrim

includes Lovely Leitrim Allen Town Shores of Lough Bran

Wild Rose of Leitrim Lough Melvin's Rocky Shore and many more

Side A Lovely Leitrim (Willie Mc Carthy)

Leitrim, The Pride of the West (Kevin Prendergast)

My Old Leitrim Home (Margaret O'Rourke)

Shores of Lough Bran (Paddy Smullen)

The Wild Rose of Leitrim (Larry Cunningham)

Lough Melvin's Rocky Shore (Mary Darcy & Eamonn Mc Rory)

Side B

Lovely Leitrim Shore (Paddy O'Brien)

Allentown (Charlie Mc Gettigan)

O'Carolan Selection (Orla Daly)

Summers Back in Ireland (Paddy O'Brien)

Co. Leitrim Queen (Eamonn Daly)

Isle of Inishfree (Mary Darcy & Eamonn Mc Rory)

Tapes Cost including postage £8

An Tostal Drumshanbo Traditional Mucis Group

Irish Music & Song From the Heart of Leitrim's Musical

Heritage

Side 1 Selection of Reels:

The Bell of Tipperary

Coming West along the Road

The reels come from the west of Ireland. the first one was a great favourite of Michael Coleman's the famous Sligo fiddle player who originally recorded it in the 1930's while the second tune has long been associated with Jack Coughlan, the flute player from Ballinakill, Co. Galway.

Selection of Jigs:

Keegan's

Wallop the Spot

Kevin Keegan the Chicago based accordion player is the source of this one, while the second jig was composed by Walter Jackson from Co. Monaghan.

Dunphys

The Plains of Boyle

Both of these hornpipes come from the O'Neill collection.

My Co. Leitrim Queen

An old traditional Leitrim song performed by Eamonn and Orla Daly.

Selection of Polkas:

John Mc Kenna, Leitrim's own internationally famous flute player took these tunes with him to America at the turn of the century where subsequently he recorded them with great success. Mc Kenna was a fireman with the New York City Fire Service and came from the townsland of Tents, Lough Allen.

Selection of Reels:

Lad O'Beirnes

Flax in Bloom

Cooleys

The first of these reels was composed by Michael Coleman, tribute to Plilip O'Beirne his tutor. The second is a traditional tune from Co. Tyrone while the final set was recorded originally by Seamus Cooley, Peter's Well, Co. Galway, a brother of Joe Cooley.

Side 2

Selection of Reels:

Farrell O'Gara's

Music in the Glen

The first is another tune made popular by Michael Coleman while the second is an old fiddle favourite originally recorded by P. Canny and P. J. Hayes.

The O'Carolan Collection:

A tribute to Ireland's legendary harpist who lived near Mohill, Co. Leitrim and is buried in Kilronan Cemetery, near Keadue on the Roscommon/Leitrim border. This selection is performed by Orla Daly of Drumshanbo, Leitrim's premier harpist.

Song: The Shores of Lough Bran

Lough Bran is located outside Leitrim Town in the shadow of Sheemore Mountain. Leitrim's sad pattern of emigration is accurately reflected in this ballad performed here by Paddy Smullen.

A Tribute to John Mc Kenna:

Featuring Mick Woods on concert flute with Orla Dly (Harp) and Eamonn Daly (Bodhran)

Touch me if you Dare

Lucky in Love

Bloom of Youth

Selection of reels made famous by Leitrim's John Mc Kenna and performed here by Mick Woods of the famous Woods family, Drumshanbo. A brother, Kevin, fronted his own dance band in the 40's and 50's before emigrating to the U.S.

Selection of Jigs: Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part Jame Earley's

The Rose in the Heather

Selection of Reels: Killabeg House First House in Connaught

The Galway Rambler

CD Cost including postage £14, tapes £8

Rolling in the Ryegrass

Drumshanbo Traditional Music Group

includes Josie Mc Dermott's Last Known Recording

Side A

Selection of Reels Chattering Magpie Peelers Jacket

Selection of Jigs Nova Scotia Hammy Hamilton's

O'Carolan Selection Elenor Plunkett O'Rourkes Feast

Song: My Lovely Leitrim Shore

Selection of Reels John Kelly's The Mountain Top The Red Haired Lass

Selection of Reels The Flagging Reel Rolling in the Rye Grass

Song: Bonny Labouring Boy

Selection of Polkas Trip to the Well Kiss behind the Door

Side B

Selection of Reels Foxhunters Boys of Ballisodare Five Mile Chase

Jig: The Freize Britches

Selection of Hornpipes Plains of Boyle Cooley's

Slow Air: An Tostal Air

Song: Knickers of Corduroy

Selection of Jigs Tripping up the stairs Trip to Athlone

Barn Dance The Ballroom Favourite

Selection of Jigs The Eavesdropper Trip to the Cottage Tatther Jack Walsh

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Drumshanbo Traditional Music Group Mick Woods (flute)

Camillus Kehoe (acoustic guitar) Kevin Dowler (button accordion)

Maureen Doran (fiddle) Orla Daly (harp) Eamonn Daly (bodhran)

and Paul Gurney (guitar)

Background

It features material recorded by both prominent and not-so-prominent artists. The individual artists and their works are promoted here by sleeve-notes, biographies, photographs and other information. Most of the recordings presented are available for sale directly at this site via our e-mail dec@iol.ie .

The use of the Internet provides the opportunity for Irish musicians in the North West of Ireland to get access to a global market giving a wealth of information relating to musical events, musicians etc. There are a great deal of Internet sites providing a variety of relevant information.

Why this site.? Some recordings of major traditional artists such as the Chieftains can be purchased over the Internet at various Internet Music Stores. But those with an interest in this local type of music face difficulties :

A great deal of local traditional artists' recordings are not available at these sites as the particular Internet Store is unlikely to be interested in stocking relatively small quantities of titles that would only represent a small part of their business activity
Even if the Internet Store stocked them they would be unlikely to take much of an active part in actually promoting the CD.
This lack of promotion of a particular CD means that the Internet Store is effectively just listing the item. The intending purchaser is likely left with the equivalent of looking through a record rack and wondering whether to purchase a CD from someone they have never heard of - just because it happens to be in the 'Irish CD' section.
Some artists might not be inclined to make the necessary arrangements to try to get a major Internet CD retailer to consider stocking the recording

The local musician will often record in relatively small numbers and arrange to stock the item only in a limited number of locations. These recordings are available to tourists passing through the Lough Allen Region but often not to many others.

There are however a great deal of people all over the world who would indeed purchase these recordings if they could -

Go to an Internet Site and purchase them
Browse through the artist's biography (etc.) at that Internet Site
ideally sample a few seconds of the music on each of the CDs
purchase the CD securely on-line using a credit card ( to be developed)

Very talented artists have been denied the opportunity of reaching a wider audience because of a lack of access to global audience and also the high costs of marketing and distribution.

What are some of the benefits Music-direct offers the traditional Irish music artist ?

It can be considered as supplementary to any any arrangements they have with record stores etc

It gives the artist exposure to a much wider audience

The site is easily navigable by the visitor and the artist's material is much easier to find and evaluate than it would be on a large general-purpose CD site.

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Welcome

Music-direct has been set up specifically to allow the musicians from the Lough Allen Region access to that wider audience and to allow the audience access to major talents that previously remained hidden from a global audience.

CD Cost including postage £14, tapes £8

CD Cost including postage £14, tapes £8

This site is designed to promote and sell Irish music CDs, Cassettes and Videos.

Background

The use of the Internet provides the opportunity for Irish musicians in the North West of Ireland to get access to a global market giving a wealth of information relating to musical events, musicians etc. There are a great deal of Internet sites providing a variety of relevant information.

Why this site.? Some recordings of major traditional artists such as the Chieftains can be purchased over the Internet at various Internet Music Stores. But those with an interest in this local type of music face difficulties :

A great deal of local traditional artists' recordings are not available at these sites as the particular Internet Store is unlikely to be interested in stocking relatively small quantities of titles that would only represent a small part of their business activity

Even if the Internet Store stocked them they would be unlikely to take much of an active part in actually promoting the CD.

Some artists might not be inclined to make the necessary arrangements to try to get a major Internet CD retailer to consider stocking the recording

The local musician will often record in relatively small numbers and arrange to stock the item only in a limited number of locations. These recordings are available to tourists passing through the Lough Allen Region but often not to many others.

There are however a great deal of people all over the world who would indeed purchase these recordings if they could -

Go to an Internet Site and purchase them

Browse through the artist's biography (etc.) at that Internet Site

ideally sample a few seconds of the music on each of the CDs

purchase the CD securely on-line using a credit card ( to be developed)

Very talented artists have been denied the opportunity of reaching a wider audience because of a lack of access to global audience and also the high costs of marketing and distribution.

What are some of the benefits Music-direct offers the traditional Irish music artist ?

It can be considered as supplementary to any any arrangements they have with record stores etc

It gives the artist exposure to a much wider audience

The site is easily navigable by the visitor and the artist's material is much easier to find and evaluate than it would be on a large general-purpose CD site.