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reels: Collier’s/Doherty’s/The Blockers

Michel: wooden flutes

Robin: guitar, mandolin

We slow down the tempo for these three reels. This set starts with “Collier’s,” a favourite reel with pipers. One day, Francis Doherty, a (French!) tin whistle student, brought me a tape he recorded on RTE, the Irish national radio. There was a reel played by a whistle player that he wanted to learn. Here’s that tune. I never found any information about it, so I call it “Francis Doherty’s.” “The Blockers” is a composition by fiddler Seán Ryan and figures in his book The Hidden Ireland. This reel is often played in D; I transposed it to the key of G to suite the flute, and realized afterward that that’s the original key as written in the book. - MS

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from The Irish Girl, released May 1, 2003

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Robin Bullock has been hailed as one of the 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists by DigitalDreamDoor.com, “one of the best folk instrumentalists in the business” by Sing Out! Magazine, “breathtaking” by Guitar Player Magazine, and a “Celtic guitar god” by Baltimore City Paper. His virtuosity on guitar, cittern and mandolin blends Celtic, Appalachian and Baroque influences into one beautiful whole. ... more

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