About the music

We play Irish traditional music, a music that thrives as part of communities, of ex-pats and blow-ins, around the globe. We play together a lot, in sessions and concerts and for dancing, both locally and around the world, and have done for years. This record captures how we sound, on a good night at home, when the pub’s quiet, the punters attentive, the pints are flowing, and maybe some old friends have stopped by.

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About the tunes

1
Gan ainm / gan ainm / The Star Above the Garter (slides)
Two un-named slides from Roger Landes, followed by one of the most loveliest titles in the tradition, allegedly a reference to the physical geometry of the Order of the Garter—though we prefer to think it refers to another sort of splendid physical geometry.

2
The Fair Maid (song: Angie)
A song of the sort our fans have come to call a “cross-dressing sailor song.” In some versions, the girl dresses in “man’s array” in order to keep tabs on the boy, as he goes away to wa