Medley of fiddle airs (III)

Audio file
Date recorded: February 5, 1951
Contributor(s): Performer: O'Boyle, Neill; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: air, fiddle tune
Culture: Gaelic, Ireland, Irish
Instruments: fiddle
Setting: Central Hotel
Location: Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3298
Track Number: 4
Archive ID: T3298R04
Note: Medley: The Girls of Cady / Rad na mBarach [sic – possible misrendering of Gaelic "Boer reel" or Scots Gaelic "rathad" (road)?] / An Droighnean Donn (The Brown Thorn)
Belongs to: Letterkenny 2/51
About the session: Alan Lomax: "Early, done for Kitty, Dunloe, Letterkenny over glen, recording Neil O'Boyle & Kitty Gallagher in Central Hotel bedroom, Letterkenny, bitter hard afternoon, done in blizzard, glenties, death, meeting M. Doherty and Haughey, with Mickey Doherty."
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