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I grew up thinking I didn't like Irish music, because I thought Irish music was "Danny Boy," "Dear Old Donegal," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," and "McNamara's Band." I was well into what passes for my adult life when I started to hear both Irish traditional music -- they call it "trad" back home -- and the contemporary music that builds -- with care and respect -- on the rhythms and idioms of the old jigs and reels and ballads and songs. And I was fully in love.
We did a show like this one last year. In Hartford, we are fortunate to have Steve Dieterich, one of the best-loved and respected impresarios of good Irish music on this side of the Atlantic. Steve has made Hartford a destination for many of the best groups as well as the up and comers, whom he spots early. He's with us today as he was last year, and we hope the educate your ears. There's nothing wrong with "Dear Old Donegal." But it's kind of an imitation of the real thing.
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Steve & Colin's Playlist:
Girsa - "Man in the Bog/ Compromise"
Girsa - "Mountians of Pomeroy"
Danu - "The Glen Cottage/John Brosnan's/Peata an Mhaoir"
Cathy Jordan - "The Lark in Clear Air"
Cathy Jordan - "All the Way Home"
Cherish the Ladies - "The Boat to Bofin/The View Across the Valley/Martin Ainsboro's"
Cherish the Ladies - "The Green Fields of Canada"
Altan - "The Blackest Crow"
Eamonn Dillon - "Trim the Velvet"
Bua - "Liontar Duinn an Cruiscin"
Karen Casey & John Doyle - "The False Lady"
Lunasa - "Fruitmarket Reels"
The Jolly Beggars - "The Night That Paddy Murphy Died"
