Tom Busby’s is associated with the late New York piper Tom Busby. A variant of this jig was also played and recorded by Willie Clancy. Return to Burton Road is a Richard Dwyer composition. Some recorded versions order the tune parts differently from the composer’s own rendition, as is the case here. Treasa learned this version from Donncha Ó Briain, and it appears within the Golden Eagle tunebook, vol 2, as “Jig 5.” I Was Born for Sport appears in Petrie and was another of the tunes collected from Patrick Coneely in 1845.
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Fiddle player Caitlin Finley played for us back in the day at the Coatesville Traditional Irish Music Series. It took a while to find out she’d made a CD with flute & piano (also piccolo, pipes & melodeon) accompaniment but it was worth the wait! Check it out. Will Woodson & Chris Stevens are standouts, too. It’s nice to find a contemporary Irish CD I like start to finish. Frank Dalton
Former member of Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 unveils a rich, swinging new record that pulls from jazz and soul in its high-wattage songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 24, 2024
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Masterful box playing. Has some very appealing, unusual quality to it - hard to put into words... might be the Sliabh Luachra style peeping through. musicstillspeaks