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Cal Callaghan's Hornpipes

from Fiddle Music by Danny Diamond

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The first hornpipe comes from the playing of Pádraig O’Keefe (1887-1963), the legendary Sliabh Luachra fiddle player and music teacher. It was collected from O’Keefe by Séamus Ennis while working for for RTÉ in the late 1940s and released on the archival album Pádraig O’Keefe: The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master (RTÉ, 1993). O’Keefe’s named the tune after the man he learned it from, his fiddle-playing maternal uncle Cal O’Callaghan.

The second hornpipe also comes from Cal Callaghan and Pádraig O’Keefe but via a more convoluted path. The tune was taught by O’Keefe to his protogé Denis Murphy (1910-1974), who called it The Bank of Turf, and from there it passed to the Dublin fiddler Seán Keane who recorded it on his classic album Gusty’s Frolics (Claddagh Records, 1975).

It was also in the repertoire of West Clare fiddle and concertina player John Kelly (1921-1988) under the name The Blacksmith’s Charm; his version of the tune can be heard on the album “Irish Traditional Fiddle & Concertina Music’ (Topic/Free Reed, 1975). While learning the tune I borrowed variations from both the Séan Keane and John Kelly recordings, added a couple more for luck, and ended up with a tune which sounds quite removed from its Sliabh Luachra roots.

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from Fiddle Music, released July 1, 2014
Danny Diamond: Fiddle

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Fiddle player / composer / recording engineer / researcher with a background in Irish traditional music; currently based between Minneapolis, USA and Dublin, Ireland.

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