Nuala & Tomás Ó Canainn - Béal na Bláth

Recorded in 1982 on the Belfast "Outlet" label, this LP record featured traditional songs, airs and dance music played by "Na Fili" piper and singer Tomas O’Canainn with his daughter Nuala on fiddle. The 10 dance tunes are all original compositions by Tomas O’Canainn.

Tomás Ó Canainn [died in 2013] was an Irish Uilleann piper, accordion player, singer, composer, researcher, writer and lecturer. He was a founder of the group Na Fili with fiddler Matt Cranitch and whistle player Tom Barry in the late 1960s and 1970s. They gained considerable popularity and recorded several albums. Tomás Ó Canainn, both an instructor and performing musician, writes about and collects traditional Irish music. His books include Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland (2005, Ossian), Traditional Music in Ireland (1997 Music Sales Corporation), Seán Ó Riada: His Life and Work (2004, Collins Press), Fifeanna and Feadoga (2001, Cló Iar-Chonnachta Teo), Home to Derry (2004, Appletree Press), Lifetime of Notes (1996, Collins Press), Sean Ó Riada (1993, Columbia Press), and Songs of Cork (1978, Gilbert Dalton). His original compositions of Irish music are published in Tomas’ Tunebook: ‘New Tunes for Old’ (1998, Ossian)

Personnel:
Nuala Ó Canainn - fiddle
Tomás Ó Canainn - pipes, vocals

01. The Lower Drum Roll - With Marley to Galicia

02. Ar Lan Y Mor (On the Seashore)

03. Conlach Ghlas an Fhomhair (The Fresh Stubble of Autumn)

04. The Ennismore Potter / Father Michael Ryan's

05. Uir-Chill a Chreagain (Creggan Churchyard) 

06. Goirtin Eornan (Little Field of Barley)

07. Nuala's Fiddle / The Glanmire Gallop

08. Falkland Frolics / Kinsella, File

09. The Stranger

10. A Stóir Mo Chroí (Tresure of My Heart)

11. Eibhlin, A Rúin (Evelyn, Darling)

12. Máire Ní Mhaoileoin (Mary Malone)

13. Johnny's 21st / Ger's 21st 

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Nuala & Tomás Ó Canainn - Béal na Bláth