http://www.irishmusicweddings.com/
Click the music link at the top of the page.
Maybe one of you single pipers in California could arrange to get married so you could hire Ronan to come out and play at the wedding – and invite me, please!
I find it very cool that someone of his abilities says “I love playing at wedding ceremonies”.
Thanks for this! Every once in a while, someone on this forum posts a link which solves a problem. In this case, I’ve managed to get the second part to an air that had been bugging me for years - The Snowey Breasted Pearl.
Now all I’ve got to do is work out the regulator parts 
Thanks
Jon
I downloaded the entire 150mb collection. I even sent to an e-mail to Mr. Browne thanking him for putting the music up for free download. He replied with a thank you and noted that he had wondered why his web server saw such a sudden surge in activity. A friend of his saw the C&F reference and told him of it.
Overall, I like the tunes. Gives me more stuff to listen to.
Thanks heaps for this - downloaded the lot too, Ronan’s the greatest. For years I’ve been after the tionol organizers here on the US West coast to book him, to no avail - he’s too busy with sound systems I guess, or they’re not as keen on his piping as I am? Or his price is too dear?
It’s Snowy, not “Snowey.” 
Come into my parlor and I’ll show you the entry in my dictionary. 
Usually played in G not D, too. Listen to the ancient recording of Leo Rowsome play that, quite the regulator fantasia.
Great collection. I love Ronan’s playing, really wonderful. I’d be great if other pipers released collections like this. More spontaneous recordings and tionól recordings, the types of things that don’t make it to CD.
This made me wonder about all the collections of piping recorded at concerts and tionols. Will there come a day when these are made available for the rest of us? The reason i ask is that most pipers don’t record ‘proper’ albums that often and there’s a huge treasury of privately recorded live performances, some of which i’d imagine are of adequate quality to be issued commercially. I can understand that a lot of work goes into your typical keenan or o’flynn release but there must be loads of tunes that pipers like this know and can play fantastic versions of that they’ll never get round to recording for their official releases and i’d like to think that these might be documented for posterity. Perhaps this is what organisations like the irish traditional music archive are trying to do?
I remember I was at a Fleadh back in the 90s, and I was having a beer with the pipe teacher.
There was a large session going on in the pub and I asked him why he didn’t join in
He said he never played much in gang-bang sessions any more, mainly because there was always some tit with a tape recorder trying to record him for posterity. He said the best music is played and floats away and isn’t analysed for years by dry old farts in offices. The emphasis being on the anal in analysed.
I must be much worse now. Within 5 minutes of playing a tune it is uploaded to Youtube.
I admit I enjoy any recordings. We would have lost a lot of great playing if someone hadn’t had the foresight to put Clancy, Ennis and others down on tape, but there are some people who just don’t realise that its time to switch off the recorder and just enjoy the moment.
Are there any sessions that ban recording? Not for copyright issues, but that it is just such a pain in the arse. 
Mukade
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