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    The majority of recordings selected for the Furls of Music feature musicians and singers from south Leitrim. This playlist of Leitrim Performers also of course includes Ben and Charlie Lennon from the north of the county.

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    The broken pledge, reel / [Jimmy McKiernan], fiddle

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    • The broken pledge, reel / [Jimmy McKiernan], fiddle

    • The Curragh races, reel / [Jimmy McKiernan], fiddle

    • The Dunmore lasses, reel ; The youngest daughter, reel ; The Aughavas reel / The Leitrim Trio, instrumental group

    • Stop the bus, jig [Paddy Taylor's, jig] ; The frost is all over, jig ; The Leitrim jig, jig / The Leitrim Trio, instrumental group

    • Logier's hornpipe / Enda McNamara, fiddle ; Reilly, Pat, speech in English ; Quinn, Fr. John, speech in English ; McNamara, Michael, speech in English

    • These are my mountains, song [composed by James Copeland] / Josephine McNamara, speech in English, singing in English

    • Michael Creamer's reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Buckley's fancy, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Fermoy lasses, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Terry of my heart, song / Marie Reilly, singing in English, & Michael Reilly, fiddle

    • Biddy McGrath, song / [unidentified woman], singing in English

    • Fisher's hornpipe ; Brigid of Knock, hornpipe / Ben Lennon, fiddle, & Michael NcNamara, flute

    • John Blessing's delight, jig [Jackson's Mistake, jig] / John Lee, flute

    • Up Sligo, jig ; [unidentified], jig / Ben Lennon, fiddle, & Michael NcNamara, flute

    • The blackthorn stick, reel ; [unidentified], reel / Ben Lennon, fiddle, Michael NcNamara, flute, & John McGuinness, bodhrán

    • The Drummond lasses, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Bonny Irish boy, song / John Blessing, singing in English

    • The joys and sorrows of Ireland, reel ; [Ceili House capers], reel ; The moving bog, reel / Michael McNamara, flute, & Pee Fitzpatrick, fiddle

    • Cut the sod, reel / Michael McNamara, flute, & John Blessing, flute

    • [unidentified tunes] / Michael NcNamara, flute, & John Blessing, flute

    • The dawn reel / John Thomas Gray, fiddle

    • [unidentified], reel / John Thomas Gray, fiddle

    • Top the candle, hop jig ; Do it fair, hop jig / Frank Reilly, fiddle, & Pat Reilly, fiddle

    • O'Connell's reel ; Mary of the grove, reel ; The Drummond lasses, reel / Michael NcNamara, flute, & John Lee, flute

    • The Edenderry reel ; Over the bridge to Peggy, reel ; Master Henry's reel / Michael NcNamara, flute, & John Lee, flute

    • The home I left behind, song / Fr. O'Flynn, speech in English ; Josephine McNamara, singing in English

    • Larry the beer drinker, jig / John Blessing, flute

    • Miss Simple's, reel ; The humours of Bolton Street, reel ; Bring her to the shelter, reel ; Miss Gunning's reel / The McNamara Family

    • The Ballyoran, hornpipe [composed by Seán Ryan] / Michael Reilly, fiddle

    • O'Donnell's, hornpipe / Michael Reilly, fiddle, & Michael McNamara, flute

    • Bonnie Kate, reel ; Jenny's chickens, reel / Michael Reilly, fiddle

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