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The Boy from Ireland
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Irish traditional music played on fiddle by a nine year old from Tuam, Co. Galway with mandolin accompaniement.
tracks
- 1 The Blackbird.
- 2 The Ballydesmond Polka Set.
- 3 The Auld Resting Chair -Tom Anderson - Shetland Islands
- 4 The Boys of Ballisodare / The Butterfly - Slip Jigs
- 5 The Road to Lisdoonvarna - for Kaia, The Burnt Old Man
- 6 Give Me Your Hand. Rory Dal Ó Caghán, c.1640, The Eagle's Wh
- 7 The South Wind / The Song of the Chanter
- 8 Kerry Polkas
- 9 The Cottage in the Grove
- 10 Sí Beag Sí Mór / The Boy in the Gap, for Bill Dundon
- 11 The Boy from Ireland, for Áine. Ó Carolan's Draught
- 12 Kerry Slides
- 13 Ó Carolan's Receipt
- 14 The Foxhunter - Slip Jig
- 15 My Love's an Arbutus
- 16 The Nine Points of Roguery
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notes
Zeb was nine when he recorded this album. At the time, he was studying with Ona Cropper, director and conductor of the Vancouver Corelli Strings Orchestra.
At home, during practice time, I'd often sit in wih Zeb and accompany him on mandolin and, when he'd ask, show him tunes from the deep well of Irish music, which he used to also love to play.
In hindsight, learning Irish music alongside classical was a painless way to improve bowing technique and playing in general, since it led to more playing time and for that matter, more fun as well.
Around about the same time, a friend asked me to go into Blue Wave Studios in Vancouver, record some music and send it on to him at the Union Label in California, now called Cloister Recordings. Unable to resist, I asked Zeb if he'd help with the project. Thus was born ' The Boy from Ireland '.
As you'll hear when you listen to this album, that its really all about a boy playing his fiddle with inventiveness, grace and soul. Granted, his dad accompanies him on mandolin, but Zeb's own virtuosity, innate musicality, with its sensitivity and richness of tone, is, to put it simply, a wonder and a joy to listen to.
'The Boy from Ireland' is a one of a kind recording. Parents of young musicians, classical or otherwise, might successfully use this recording as a source of encouragement and inspiration in what is after all considered 'the highest form of art', which is to say, music.
Zeb's style is reminiscent of another impeccable musician he was later to emulate, that of renowned fiddle player Kevin Burke. Zeb met and played with Kevin when he was six years old during one of Kevin's visits to Vancouver while touring with yet another great Sligo-born fiddle player, Manus Maguire.
You can see a photo of Kevin, Zeb and Manus playing together on http://www.irishbouzouki.com/theboyfromireland.html, (the root being www.irishbouzouki.com - click on the link 'UZ2' ).
The long awaited follow-up to this album, also be available on CDBaby, is the 2003 live recording entitled ' Musical Priest '.
Photos from the making of that cd can be seen on http://www.swordoflight.org/tuan,( click on ' Musical Priest ').
A copy of the transcript of the music featured on ' The Boy from Ireland ' is available in book form by writing to info@swordoflight.org.
In closing, may I say that this excellent re-mastering of ' The Boy from Ireland ' by Grammy Award winner Oz Fritz at Cloister Recordings, is a rare opportunity for you too to share in the pleasure and good fortune I enjoyed as Zeb's music companion, friend and right-hand man. Thanks again Zeb. Best, Se Duggan;
" We are the music makers
and we are the dreamers of dreams...
Yet we are the movers and shakers
of the world forever, it seems. "
Arthur O Shaughnessy
Dedicated to the memory of Chief Seattle & a special friend of ours, Bill Dundon.