- “Elephant in the Corn” - Nickel Creek. After a 7-year break, Nickel Creek returned in 2014 with critically-acclaimed A Dotted Line.
- “Catherine Kelly’s / Lake Effect” - Liz Carroll featuring Turtle Island String Quartet. Catherine Kelly’s slip jig is something we’ve recently reintegrated into our set list. This recording puts a different spin on it.
- “Soggy’s / Waterboogie” - Beoga. A dancer who used to come to our local session choreographed a dance for this slip jig. Our session leader calls Soggy’s “The best slip jig ever… I’ve been told that if you play this for dancers they will love you.”
- “Fish and Bird” - Noam Pikelny featuring Aoife O’Donovan. A waltz by the banjo player from Punch Brothers, from Grammy- nominated Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail. It’s actually about a bird and a whale.
- “Repeal of the Union” - The Gloaming. Featuring Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Martin Hayes.
- “Timmy Cliffords / The Return Home / O’ot Be Est Da Vong / John Joe Caseys” - Solas. Though recorded in 1996 this great album from which this track comes has really stood the test of time.
- “Interlude 3” - Sarah Jarosz. From Blue Heron Suite, a concept album that is really a single-composition song cycle. It contains four interludes. Sarah’s primary instrument is a Fletcher Brock arch-top octave mandolin.
- “6 Then 5” - Seamus Egan. This comes from a great 2020 album from American multi-instrumentalist of Irish music and former member of Solas.
- “The Rookery / Joe Cooley’s Morning Dew / The Edenderry Reel” - Caitlin Nic Gabhann. Former member of Riverdance and concertina player who accompanies her own music with percussive foot-tapping.
- “Rye Whiskey” - Punch Brothers. “Rye whiskey makes the band sound better / Makes your baby cuter…”
- “Suite Breton: Stajerien Chapel Nevez / Ridée / Ridée Pour Jean-Michel Veillon” - Old Blind Dogs. One reel and two ridées, from Cape Breton, as performed by Scots from Aberdeen.
- “Whiskey Before Breakfast” - Various. A distinctly bluegrass take on a classic Irish session tune, from Bluegrass ‘95, winner of International Bluegrass Music Association’s 1996 “Recorded Event of the Year”.
- “Lady In The Bottle / Old Hag You Have Killed Me / Price Of The Pig” - Anna Murray - Scottish piper from the Isle of Lewis closes us out with a set of three jigs on the small pipes.
Cover image is a photo of green grass with morning dew, with blurry trees in the distance, by Jonas Weckschmied on Unsplash