24 November 2008
Garry Walsh
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While in Co. Cork, Ireland, in September, I discovered Garry Walsh, who plays a repertoire of rare tunes taught to him by his parents and grandfathers on mellifluous flutes and whistles, pitched in keys which don’t usually feature in Ireland’s musical lexicon.
Garry was raised in the country, 15 miles from Manchester, where, because of his isolation, he learned the tunes of his Co. Louth and Cork ancestors from his Dad (a pianist, accordionist, trombonist and jazz fan) and his Mom (a lilter). Garry learned the whistle from his Dad and didn’t take up flute until he was 21. But, although Garry didn’t frequent the session scene, his dad’s strictness and the rich repertoire he inherited stood him in good stead. In Ireland’s rich and generously shared music culture, the tunes Garry learned were so rare that Dublin’s Irish Traditional Music Archive couldn’t find previous notated or recorded examples of them. When Garry was offered a job in Cork, he leapt at the chance and put together a regularly-playing band to bring his family’s ‘secret repertoire’ back to Ireland, the circle complete at last on his debut CD Uncovered.
Playlist
Playlist
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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)
1423
CD Cut 9 - 'Back to Skibbereen/The Road to Cork'
Trad/trad, arr G Walsh
All Rights Reserved
Ossian Publications OSS CD 134, now available from Cló Iar-Chonnachta http://www.cic.ie/index_english.asp
Garry Walsh - 'Uncovered'
3:32
(Dave Hennessy's melodeon starts this jig solo that Garry learned from his mum's lilting when he first started playing the flute. Her father often played it in a local air raid shelter in Manchester during the war years, whishing they were all home in Skibbereen)
Segue
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CD Cut 13 - 'Caroline'
Secor
Blood Donor Music BMI, administered by Bug Music
Nettwerk 30812-2 (Through Shock in Australia)
Old Crow Medicine Show - 'Tennessee Pusher'
3:34
(Jubilant love song with Dylanesque harmonica and group vocals in ode to old lover that compares their relationship to a dynamic baseball team or player)
RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Old Crow Medicine Show - 'Tennessee Pusher' will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Tuesday, 25 November)
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CD Cut 4 - 'Around Lough Ine'
trad, arr G Walsh
All Rights Reserved
Ossian Publications OSS CD 134, now available from Cló Iar-Chonnachta http://www.cic.ie/index_english.asp
Garry Walsh - 'Uncovered'
2:17
(Garry's solo F whistle on a slow air for a lake between Skibbereen and Baltimore)
Segue
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CD Cut 12 - 'Willie Coleman's/The Goldfield'
Willie Coleman, Trad, arr Matt Molloy and John Carty
Racket Records RR0007 www.johncartymusic.com www.mattmolloy.com
Matt Molloy and John Carty with Arty McGlynn - 'Pathway to the Well' (Recorded Live at Matt Molloy's)
3:08
(Cheery jig medley of tunes from South Sligo played by Matt on flute, John on fiddle and Artie on guitar)
RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Matt Molloy and John Carty with Arty McGlynn - 'Pathway to the Well' (Recorded Live at Matt Molloy's) will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Monday, 1st December)
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CD Cut 8 - 'Across the Universe'
Lennon/McCartney, arr Sam Keevers and Katie Noonan
Sony/ATV Publishing/EMI Music Publishing
Sony/BMG 88697394382
Katie Noonan - 'Blackbird'
6:08
(Austral arr and perf: Jon Scofield solos on electric guitar and Joe Lovano fills on tenor sax, with drums, bass and Sam Keevers' piano backing Katie's jazz-inflected song of contentment)
KATIE NOONAN BLACKBIRD CD LAUNCH:
The Studio, Sydney Opera House December 9 and December 10
Prince of Wales Hotel, St Kilda December 11
Adelaide Festival Centre, Banquet Room December 12
Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane December 19-20.
Segue
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CD Cut 12 - 'This Sky'
Derek Trucks, Mike Matison, Jay Joyce
Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Joy Jayce Music Publishing, Younkin Music BMI, Thumb Plus Music ASCAP
Columbia 82796 928442 (Through Sony/BMG)
Derek Trucks Band - 'Songlines'
6:31
(Gentle guitar intro then male vocal before guitar and flute intertwine with electric piano, drums and electric bass, culminating in powerful, lyrical electric slide guitar feature)
DEREK TRUCKS BAND EXLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN DEBUT PERFORMANCE:
Derek will be artist in residence at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival, 29 November to 7 December 2008
http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/guitarfestival/
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CD 1, Cut 8 - 'Cannot Buy My Soul'
Kev Carmody
Song Cycles Pty Ltd.
EMI 0946 3 77741 2 0
Various - 'The Songs of Kev Carmody: Cannot Buy My Soul'
2:48
(Austral comp and perf: small acoustic group backs Archie Roach singing Kev Carmody's song of freedom - quietly very soulful)
ARCHIE ROACH AND RUBY HUNTER PERTH GIG ALERT:
Thursday 27th November AND Friday 28th November
The Bakery - 233 James St, Northbridge
Doors Open: 7:30pm
Entry: $30.00
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CD Cut 10 - 'Ciara's Reel/Ciaran Jennings'
Ciara Walsh/trad, arr G Walsh
All Rights Reserved
Ossian Publications OSS CD 134, now available from Cló Iar-Chonnachta http://www.cic.ie/index_english.asp
Garry Walsh - 'Uncovered'
Two minute excerpt
(Uplifting reel medley for Garry's E flat flute, Johnny Neville's guitar and Colm Murphy's Bodhran on medley of a tune by Garry's daughter Ciara and a tune played by her great grandfather)
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
