Katie has assembled a fine playlist featuring button accordion players, both traditional and contemporary, such as James Keane, Martin Quinn, Joe Burke, Joe Cooley, and Sharon Shannon. There are so many great box players out there that we couldn?t fit them all into two hours.
Playlist:
# | Track | >Artist | Release |
1 | Return to Camdentown / Miss Thornton’s / The Repeal of the Union | James Keane | With Friends Like These |
2 | Showman’s Fancy / Off to California | Johnny B. Connolly | Bridgetown |
3 | Timmy Clifford’s / The Return Home / O’ot Be Est Da Vong / John Joe Casey’s | Solas | Solas |
4 | Big John’s | Nomos | Set You Free |
5 | An Spailpin Fanach | Dervish | Decade |
6 | The Humours of Drinagh / The Trip to Athlone | Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon | In Knocknagree |
7 | McNamara’s / The Carricknagavna Barndance | Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn | Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn |
8 | The Wise Maid | Joe Cooley | Cooley |
9 | New York Jig / The Geese in the Bog | John Whelan | Celtic Roots (Spirit Of Dance) |
10 | Humours of Ballyconnell / Eel in the Sink / Star Of Munster | John Whelan | Celtic Roots (Spirit Of Dance) |
11 | The Big Mistake | Sharon Shannon | Out the Gap |
12 | Track 11 | Joe Cooley | Cooley |
13 | O’Carolan?s Welcome / A Fig for a Kiss / The Whistling Thief | Chulrua | Barefoot on the Altar |
14 | Top It Off-Jig Gan Ainm-Kilkenny Jig-Alasdruim’s March | Danu | Road Less Traveled |
15 | Blackbird | Sharon Shannon | Spellbound – Best of Sharon Shannon |
16 | Master Seamus’ / Bunker Hill | Dermot Byrne | Dermot Byrne |
17 | Reilly, Of the White Hill | Billy McComisky | Music of Ed Reavy |
18 | An tSeanbhan Bhocht | Séamus Begley & Oisín Mac Diarmada | Le Cheile |
19 | Going for a Soldier Jenny / The Chandelier | The Alt | The Alt |
20 | Aililiu Na Gamhna | Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn | Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn |
21 | The Wiggly Jigs (Pancake Tuesday / The Broad Walk / Professor Delbert’s Birthday) | Solas | Another Day |
22 | Mouth Music / Eddie Curran’s Favorite | Dolores Keane & John Faulkner | Broken Hearted I’ll Wander |
23 | The Banks of the Red Roses | De Danann | The Best of De Danann |
24 | Down the Lane | Nomos | Set You Free |
25 | Carty’s Reels | Michael Hubbert and Mickie Zekley | Mooncoin |
26 | The Gambler (A Gullible’s Travels) | Alan Reid & Rob Van Sante | The Dear Green Place |
27 | Reels: Dinny O’Brien’s / The Sweetheart Reel / Paddy Kenny’s | Téada | Ainneoin Na Stoirme / In Spite Of The Storm |
28 | Michael J. Kennedy Plays The Cuckoo’s Nest | Grey Larsen And Paddy League | The Green House |
29 | Tom Ward’s Downfall / Farewell to Ireland / Dillon’s Fancy | James Keane | That’s the Spirit |
30 | The Bucks of Oranmore | Joe Burke | Bucks of Oranmore |