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7 2 8 20110510 8 UP, DOWN & AROUND LEO RICKARD (Phaeton Records SPINCD 1014) Available from NPU at €15.00 (Members: €14.00) ~ NEW PUBLICATIONS ~ LEO RICKARD’S second album was launched in late March at a party in Dublin’s Teach- ers Club. Leo has made a departure for this album, bringing in accompanying instruments, in contrast to his strictly solo first album. Six of the tracks are accompanied with guitar and bouzouki, two with cello and one with con- cert flute, while Ciara Maxwell duets on the pipes with Leo on track 4. 1 Jigs: The Night of the Fair, Leaving the Nest, Padhraic O’Keeffe’s 2 Reels: The Cameronian, The Mullingar Races, The Drunken Lamdlady 3 Jigs: Planxty Brigid Maxwell, The Maid of Bearna Lodge 4 Air: Inisheer 5 Jigs: The Walls of Liscarroll, Calliope House, Coleman’s Cross 6 Marches: The Battle of Aughrim, The Haughs of Cromdale, O’Neill’s Caval- cade, The Pikeman 7 Air: Far Away 8 Reels: The Glen of Aherlow, The Merry Sisters, The Morning Dew 9 Air: Lament for Limerick 10 Hornpipes: Tomorrow Morning, The Cloone Hornpipe, The Peacock’s Feather 11 Air, Jig: Larry’s Way, The Blarney Pilgrim 12 Jig, piece: Nóra Críona 13 Reels: The New Mown Meadow, The Bro- ken Pledge, The Flogging Reel PURE IRISH UILLEANN PIPES VARIOUS ARTISTS (Arran ARRCD1460) Available from http://claddaghrecords.com COMPILATIONS of Irish music, and sometimes just of uilleann piping, regularly appear in the shops, with no indication of their prove- nance beyond a manufacturer’s name. This is such a one–a collection of tracks issued by IML Music Licensing Ltd., a firm based in Dublin. The content is a mixture of (mostly) en- semble playing, with some solo tracks. One item of particular interest is the track of the great fiddle player Sean Maguire playing a solo

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