Tuesday 28 July 2015

Boys of the Lough - Live at Passim

The Boys of the Lough are a Scottish-Irish Celtic band making fantastic sounding music since the early 1970's. Recorded live at the famed Cambridge, Massachusetts folk club Passim'sin 1974, this concert shows off The Boys' versatile take on Celtic folk music and their fine musical skills Live At Passim songs. As usual, the track list is a grab bag of songs from Ireland, Scotland, and Shetland, with emphasis on jigs and reels. Boys Of The Lough during this period where: Dave Richardson (mandolin); Aly Bain (fiddle); Cathal McDonnell (flute); Robin Morton (concertina, bodhran).


  1. The Kincora Jig/Behind the Haystack
  2. The Day Dawn (listening tune)/Pit Hame Da Borrowed Claes/Da Fashion O'Da Delting Lasses/Da Peerie House Under Da Hill (Shetland reels)
  3. General Guiness (song)
  4. The Boys of Twenty-Five/The Boyne Hunt/Chase Her Through the Garden (Irish reels)
  5. The Flower of Magherally (song)
  6. The Hound and the Hare
  7. The Cameron Highlanders/The Balkan Hills/The Atholl and Breadalbane Gathering (Scots marches)
  8. The New Set: The Golden Slipper/The Streamstown Jig/Johnny McIljohn'Sreel /Sonny's Mazurka
  9. The Shores of Lough Bran (song)
  10. Ar Eirinn Ni' Neosfainn Ce Hi (slow air)/The Whinny Hills of Leitrim/Another Jig Will Do (slip jigs)
  11. The Darling Baby (song)
  12. The Nine Points of Roguery (Irish reels)
Link to the free album

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