These files best played with Windows Media Player 7.

polkaset.mp3 - As I Looked East, As I Looked Out Upon the Ice, Maggie in the Woods.

harpsolo.mp3 - Katherine Cleary plays "Have you been to the Rock".

sicknote.mp3 - George Rubsamen sings a famous solo about Paddy and the barrel of bricks.

seanreids.mp3 - George backs me up on bodhran.

22-23 June 2001

These recordings were made using a Sony ECM-717 stereo microphone and the Sony MZ-R700 minidisc recorder. Tiny, and stealthy, the ECM-717 its great for places where the big Crown SASS-P mike would be a problem.

CTMS01_Eskin.mp3 - Merry Blacksmith and Cooley's Reel. I'm playing the Uilleann pipes on this set. Olivier Olonguet on bouzouki.

CTMS01_Reels.mp3 - Reel set from the Saturday night mega-session. Crowded room, about 30 players, incredible energy, a powerful set ending with "The Gravel Walk".

CTMS01_Christa.mp3 - Christa Burch sings a memorable solo.

Click here for photos of the Friday night session.

19 February 2002

Taimse.mp3 - Duet with me on the pipes (chanter only), backed up by John O'Hara on guitar.

12 June 2001

Bheir_Mi_O.mp3 - George (concertina, voice) and the gang.

Langstroms_Pony.mp3 - I'm playing the Uilleann pipes on this set.

SeanReids.mp3 - Chris Davis (fiddle) and I (whistle) kick off these reels.

Rakish_Paddy.mp3 - The whole group gets into the act.

Wheels_Maids.mp3 - Featuring Chris Davis (fiddle), Dennis Buskirk (tenor banjo), and John O'Hara (concertina). Second reel is the Maid of Mt. Cisco.

10 June 2001

Awesome_Trio.mp3 - Melanie Nolley (fiddle), Olivier Olonguet (bouzouki), and Steve Forman (bodhran) rock out on a reel set.

Merrily_Jig_Set.mp3 - A lovely set of jigs. I'm on tenor banjo on this set.

Scholar_Set.mp3 - Elaine Thompson (whistle) kicks off this energetic set of reels.

Christa.mp3 - Christa Burch sings a solo. A little background noise from the ice machine compressor in the pub, but such a lovely tune that I had to include it.

For the majority of the recordings the microphone used was a Crown SASS-P MK II stereo PZM mike. The mixer is a Samson Mixpad-4, which is battery powered and provides phantom power to the microphone. The recorder is a Sony MZ-R700 portable minidisc recorder. Recordings are captured digitally to a Macintosh using a Digidesign AudioMedia sound card and ProTools software. Final compression to MP3 done using SoundJam software from Casady and Greene.

I play tenor banjo, octave mandolin, whistle, and Uilleann pipes depending on my mood and the needs of the session.