GLEN ROAD LIVE AUDIO

About these downloads

These are recordings from live shows and radio appearances. We're making them available free. Pass them on to your friends, tell everyone about the band and buy our CDs.

Bedford Celtic Fest. TX, Oct 12 2003

This is Glen Road in a tent, recorded by Travis Ener who was mixing the sound. Travis is THE sound guy for acoustic music in North Texas. We had Albert Alfonso on drum. He is the best known Cuban-American Irish drummer and drum-maker on the planet.

Andy McGann's/The Charleston
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Two tunes from fiddlers that are on Turlach's Shame the Devil CD. Greg tries out some new jazzy chords on guitar.

Queen Amongst The Heather
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A pleasant tale of true love in the wilderness. It is on our album Round The Bend.

Farrell O'Gara/Tidy Cottage+Chorus Reel
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The Tidy Cottage is a tune by bagpiper EJ Jones, a multi-talented guy who sits in with Glen Road sometimes. It's also the name of Turlach's first CD. We've been messing with the tune and added a traditional tune as another part.

KCCU, Lawton OK, Sept 23rd 2003

This show, hosted by Mark Norman, was the opening day of the Lawton International Festival. You can listen to the entire show on RealAudio. Broadband | Dialup

Below are the MP3 files tune sets that we played on the show. Please note that these files are a little lower quality than the other MP3 files here (96 Kbps rather than 128Kbps). Mike had a cold so there were no live songs on the show.

Rose Marie's/Mary Finn's
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A set of tunes we have been playing since the beginning of the band.

Coolea/Star/Rollicking Skipper
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This set is on our album Round the Bend, but this version has Turlach playing whistle.

Father's Jig/Buttermilk Mary/Jean Denney's
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This set of reels is also the opening track on Round the Bend.

Farrell O'Gara/Tidy Cottage
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A set of reels we had recently put together.

WETS, Johnson City TN, Oct 26th 2001

These three tracks are from a radio show when we were touring with Sheila Maguire on fiddle.

Biddy Walsh/The Swan
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A version of Biddy Walsh is on Turlach's album Shame The Devil (Buy It). The Swan is one of Sheila's favourite tunes.

The Lark in The Morning
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This jig is an old standard.

The Verdant Braes Of Skreen
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This traditional solo song by Mike gets pulled out of the bag every now and then.

Sul Ross State University, Alpine TX, October 26th 2000

These tracks are from a concert during our first tour under the name Glen Road. We had a lovely gig at Sul Ross with Brendan Bulger on fiddle.

Boys of the Town/Mist Covered Mountain/Brid Harpers
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This arrangement of jigs was inherited from Turlach's album The Tidy Cottage (Buy It)

Con Cassidy's Jigs
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These jigs are associated with the great fiddler from Teelin in County Donegal. A different arrangement is on Turlach's album The Tidy Cottage (Buy It)

At Early Dawn
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This song was also the title of Mike's solo album. (Buy At Early Dawn)

President Garfields/ The Wonder
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President Garfield's hornpipe is on The Tidy Cottage and The Wonder is on Brendan Bulger's solo fiddle album.(Buy The Album) the Wonder also made it onto the Glen Road Album Round The Bend

Irene's Dad
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This song by Mike somehow ended up as an 'East Texas Cajun Love Song'. It hasn't been officially recorded yet though it appears in some Glen Road shows.

The Kilfodda/Dwyer's
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These reels are also on Turlach's album The Tidy Cottage (Buy It)

Solo Reels/Jean Denny's
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These solos end with Jean Denny's reel, which is part of the opening set on the first Glen Road album Round The Bend

Rose Marie/Mary Finn's
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These reels are also on Turlach's album The Tidy Cottage Buy It

Turlach Whistle Solo
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The two reels are "The Fox on the Town" and "The Laurel Tree". The first tune has been recorded by Turlach for a future album project.

Widows Old Broom
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This is a traditional song that Mike often sings in our school performances.