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March 17, 2001

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  1. Liam Clancy: reciting from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake (Stages 11/21/79) WFMT recording

  2. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD-40068/71

  3. Original Broadway Cast: How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (E.Y.Harburg/Fred Saidy) Finian's Rainbow RCA Victor 1057-2-RG

  4. Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem: New Finnegan's Wake (Clancy/Makem/Joyce) (Stages Music Hall 11/21/79) WFMT recording

  5. The Chieftains: Lots of Drops of Brandy (trad/Paddy Moloney) Water From the Well RCA Victor 0902637-2

  6. Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: Paddy Fahy's Reel (Fahy) The Lonesome Touch Green Linnet GLCD 1181

  7. Sharon Shannon: The Hounds of Lettefrack (Phil Cunningham - John Regan - Seamus Quinn - trad) The Diamond Mountain Sessions Compass 7 4305 2

  8. Laurence Nugent: Paddy Fahy's (Fahy) / Tatter Jack Walsh (Nugent) / Hole In the Boat (trad) The Windy Gap Shanachie 78038

  9. Denis Leary: Traditional Irish Folksong No Cure For Cancer A&M 31454 0055 2

  10. Wood's Tea Company: St. Patrick's Day In America (Wooden/Magee/Jacobs) This Side of the Sea Lightening Ridge LR-107 (800-270-4384)

  11. The Chieftains: Live from Matt Molloy's Pub (trad/arr.Molloy) Water From the Well RCA Victor 0902637-2

  12. Peter Sellers: Suddenly It's Folk Song - Pat O'Shaugnessy & His Men of Shamrock A Celebration of Sellers EMI 7243 8 27781 2 7

  13. Hesperus: O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick (trad) Celtic Roots Maggie's Music MMCD220 (877-MAGGIEM)

  14. The Dubliners: Limerick Rake (trad) A Drop of the Hard Stuff Epic BN 26337

  15. Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: The Lament for Limerick (trad) The Lonesome Touch Green Linnet GLCD 1181

  16. Tommy Makem: Galway City (trad/arr.Makem) The Song Tradition Shanachie 52045

  17. Cherish the Ladies: The Galway Rover (Pete St.John) New Day Dawning Green Linnet GLCD 1175

  18. Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem: Galway Races (trad/arr.Clancy-Makem) Live Shanachie 52006

  19. Paddy Reilly: Rocky Road to Dublin (trad) 20 Famous Irish Ballads ARC Music EUCD 1399 (PO Box 2453, Clearwater, FL 34617 or info@arcmusic.co.uk)

  20. Gordon Bok: Dublin City (trad/arr.Bok) Bay of Fundy Folk Legacy FSI-54

  21. Uncle Monroe Presnell: In Dublin City (trad) Beech Mountain, North Carolina II Folk Legacy FSA-23

  22. Noel McLoughlin: Whisky in the Jar Ireland: The Songs ARC Music EUCD 1353

  23. Moloney, O'Connell & Keane: Kilkelly (Peter Jones) Kilkelly Green Linnet SIF 1072

  24. Liz Carroll: Lament of the First Generation Lost in the Loop Green Linnet GLCD 1199

  25. Maria Dunn: New York 1849 From Where I Stand Dunn MARCD01 (780-430-8560)

  26. Tom Lehrer: Irish Ballad The Remains of Tom Lehrer Rhino R2 79831

  27. Sands Family: The Praties are Dug (trad) Irish Traditional Music ARC EUCD 1412

  28. Dan Milner & Bob Conroy: McNally's Row of Flats (trad) Irish In America Folk Legacy CD-129

  29. Debra Cowan: McGinnis Gets a Job (trad/arr.Cowan) The Long Grey Line Cowan MPS-211 (508-662-9746)

  30. Dan Milner & Bob Conroy: The Hard Working Miner (trad) Irish In America Folk Legacy CD-129

  31. Dana Robinson: Pat Do This The Trade Threshold TM006

  32. The Cassidys: Tiocfaidh An Samhradh (Summer Will Come) (trad) Singing From Memory Sliced Bread CD-SB71180

  33. Kiltartan Road: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (W.B.Yeats/Wm.Sobol) In the Deep Heart's Core Kiltartan Road 1002 (773-871-5142)

  34. The Chieftains: Samhradh Samhradh The Chieftains' Collection Atlantic 83224-2

  35. Patricia Brady: It Was on a Fine Summer Morning (trad) Irish Jubilee PatriciaBrady PBD6224

  36. The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem: Red Haired Mary (Sean McCarthy) Reunion Shanachie-Ogham BLB5009

  37. Colcannon: Step It Out, Mary (trad) The Life of Riley's Brother Oxford Road ORP-401 (8137 Oxford Rd., Longmont, CO 80503)

  38. Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: Mary McMahon of Ballinahinch / Miss Lyons (trad/arr.H&C) Green Linnet GLCD 1195

  39. Liam O'Flynn: Sliabh na mBan (The Women's Mountain) The Piper's Call Tara CD 3037

  40. Richard Dyer-Bennet: Down By the Sally Gardens (trad/W.B.Yeats) The Art of Richard Dyer-Bennet Vanguard Classics OVC 6007

  41. Altan: Brid Og Ni Mhaille (trad/arr.Altan) Island Angel Green Linnet GLCD 1137

  42. Kiltartan Road: I Am of Ireland (J.Sobol/W.B.Yeats) In the Deep Heart's Core Kiltartan Road 1002

  43. Tommy Makem: Four Green Fields From the Archives Shanachie 52040

  44. Tom Paxton: Corrymeala / Peace Will Come (Holsteins 6/22/83) WFMT recording

  45. Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie: When I'm Gone (Ochs) Spoken in Love Long Tail LT003-2 (PO Box 5467, Takoma Park, MD 20913)
These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Hesperus with Bonnie Rideout at the McAninch Arts Center of the College of DuPage, Friday, March 23 630-942-4000

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, with Liam O'Flynn at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 and 10. 773-728-6000

Paul Geremia at Hogeye Folk Arts, at the Lake Street Church, Lake & Chicago Avenues, Evanston, Saturday, March 24 at 7:30. 847-475-6165

Doet (Bill Camplin) at the Two Way Street Coffee House, 1047 Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, March 23 at 8:45. 630-969-9720 (Tricia Alexander, Diana Laffey, and Small Potatoes are there on Marcah 18.)

Claudia Schmidt w/ Peter Keane at Fitzgerald's, 6615 Roosevelt Rd., in Berwyn, March 28 at 8. 708-788-2118 (Bill Quateman is there March 29)

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