The Light Side of the Tune 2021 Download

by Brenda Castles

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Mark Moloney Love the version of Ms McLeod's on this! Sooo lovely, been stuck in my head for weeks. Favorite track: Miss McLeod's/Miss Lyon's/Miss Monaghan's.

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1.	Miss McLeod's/Miss Lyon's/Miss Monaghan's 04:25	info	buy track
2.	The Connaughtman's Rambles/The Kesh/Tom Ginley's Fancy 04:48	info	buy track
3.	Molly on the Shore/Charlie Mulvihill's 03:33	info	buy track
4.	The Shaskeen/The Jolly Tinker 03:36	info	buy track
5.	An tSeanbhean Bhocht/The Scholar 05:08	info	buy track
6.	Páidín Ó'Raifeartaigh/The Kerry Huntsman 06:16	info	buy track
7.	Farewell to London/The Limerick Lasses 04:48	info	buy track
8.	Jenny's Welcome to Charlie 04:41	info	buy track
9.	If the Wind Would Shed the Barley/The Wind That Shed the Barley/The Hard Road to Travel/Sleepy Maggie 04:21	info	buy track
10.	Strawberry Blossoms 03:53	info	buy track
11.	Merrily Kiss the Quaker/Merrily Dance the Quaker/Going for Water 03:27	info	buy track
12.	Trip to Killarney 05:33	info	buy track
13.	Last Night's Fun/Rolling in the Ryegrass/The Killavil Bucks 04:49	info	buy track
14.	The Irish Washerwoman/Tatterjack Walsh/The Blackthorn Stick 04:34	info	buy track

about

‘The Light Side of the Tune’ is a collection of unusual versions of some of the well-known tunes in the tradition.

I’ve spent time over the last three years collecting interesting settings of some of the common tunes in the tradition. I realised that there were many tunes that I didn’t enjoy learning as a child and disliked playing as a teenager which I found I’d grown to love as an adult. Somehow you find the music in the tunes as you mature as a musician.

The common tunes can also get overplayed, and it can be easy to tire of them. I’ve found it interesting to revisit those tunes, to rediscover the music in them and the reason why they became so popular in the first place.

I heard Liz Carroll perform her gorgeous re-working of Miss McLeod’s reel, leading me to think about how tunes evolve and wondering about what more was out there in the archives. It’s fascinating to go back and hear how a tune can change over time and distance, with varying melody, time and key signatures and depending on the musician playing it.

I started looking in the archives, talking to other musicians and keeping my ear peeled for unusual, interesting versions of some of the common tunes in our tradition.

This album is the result of that work.

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released November 19, 2021

Kate McHugh on piano, Ruairí McGorman on bouzouki and Tony Byrne on guitar.
Engineered by Al Cowan at Sonic Studios.
Mastered by Martin O'Malley at Malbay Studios.

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Brenda Castles Ireland

Brenda is from a rich tradition of music in Co. Meath having learned concertina from Rena Traynor (née Crotty) and Mícheál Ó'Raghallaigh. She has a series of All Ireland Fleadh titles to her name both in solo and group competitions. She is currently residing in New York where she is performing and teaching for Autumn 2017. ... more

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