5390153000985

Dreaming Up The Tunes

Johnny Og Connolly & Brian McGrath

£12.99
£12.99
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Format: CD

Cat No: CICD133

PRE-ORDER: This item will be shipped with the aim to deliver on release day.

Release Date:  29 August 2025

Label:  Clo Iar Chonnachta / Copperplate Independent

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5390153000985

Genres:  Folk  Celtic  

  • Description

    Johnny Og is Johnny's senior's son and plays the slightly larger two-row button accordion with a beautiful fluent, light touch. The great Joe Burke was one of his early influences. Virtuoso banjo player Brian McGrath, one of the founders of Four Men and A Dog, currently plays in Sean Keane's Band and At The Racket. He and Johnny Og have played together for years; there's both tightness and an easy give and take in their duo playing. Distinguished accompanists here too, James Blennerhasset on cello and double bass, Eugene Kelly and Peter O'Hanlon on guitars and McGrath on piano. The title is apt. Several of the tunes are recent compositions by, among others, Charlie Lennon and Johnny Og himself, whose fine, intricate tunes include the lovely set of jigs Poirt Inis Bearachain (also featured on his father's CD) and named after the now uninhabited Island off the Connemara coast, where Johnny Connolly Snr was born.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Gan Ainm / Doberman's Wallet
      • 2. Paddy Ryan's Dream / Jimmy Batty's
      • 3. Mick O'Connor's Reels
      • 4. The Happy Hornpipe / The Souvenir
      • 5. The Inis Bearachain Jigs
      • 6. Ril Johnny Phadraig Pheter / Ril Joe Mhaire Mhicilin
      • 7. Christmas in Spiddal / Twelve to the Bar
      • 8. The Carraroe Jig / Homage to Rooney
      • 9. Mountain Dew / Loughrea Reel
      • 10. Dillon's / Marion Egan's
      • 11. Bean Phaidin / Seanamhach Tube Station
      • 12. Michael Coleman's / Flanagan Meets O'Hanlon Barndances

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