A few piping gems!
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Ireland.html#top
“SR17B7-8: Two tunes played by a left-handed uilleann piper.”
“SR2B7: “Dingle Regatta” (or “Sufferin’ Irish Catholic”) played on accordion and spoons by Kathleen Begley and Áine and Josephine Kane.”
I know what that means…
“The Library’s Recording Laboratory receives no tax dollars and operates, therefore, essentially like a commercial studio in the Washington, D.C., area, charging comparable rates. The Recording Laboratory currently charges $109 per hour for engineering time (15-minute setup charge, plus 15-minute increments based on running time of materials and associated time spent on flat-winding, reel changes, cleaning, etc.) plus the cost of tape stock and shipping.”
Spendy! Anybody want to gang up on this stuff?
The archival stuff from the 40s and 50s is almost all singing, you do get Jimmy Lyons from Teelin, Co. Donegal, fiddler, he was in the book the Northern Fiddler I think.
I see the name Henrietta Yurchenco in relation to stuff from 1974, I have a tape of the Lavin Brothers (Roscommon pipers) that was recorded by her.
I wonder who donated all this schtuff?
The New York City stuff has some interesting items, too, like:
“AFS 14,697: One 10-inch tape of Irish music performed by Joe Burke, Jack Cohn [Cohen?], Andy McGann, and others. Recorded in New York City by Daniel Collins, January 1972. The collection includes two pages of notes. (One hour; LWO 6793)”
There are some recordings from SSWC 1974 that might be good.
djm
I figured it out - these are the reels to ask for if you want the 40s/50s stuff:
LWO 5111 reel 177A
LWO 5111 reel 280B
LWO 5111 reel 281A
LWO 5111 reel 281B
LWO 5111 reel 282A
LWO 5111 reel 282B
LWO 5111 reel 283B
LWO 2496 reels 8B-9A
LWO 2496 reel 10B
LWO 2496 reel 11A
LWO 2496 reel 11B
LWO 2496 reel 12A
LWO 2496 reel 12B
LWO 2496 reel 13A
LWO 2496 reel 13B
Most of the rest is from AFC 1995/022/SR:#, these are Henrietta and Co’s tapes from 1974, much of which looks like excellent stuff - Seamus, the Kellys, Pat Mitchell. And there are other bits in there, a video doc of Joe Heaney, all of Bill Och’s field recordings/interviews with Micho Russell, etc.
The old stuff has a bit of “Dennis Murphy” too.