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Punch for the Ladies - Traditional
Nuair’ chunnic mi ‘n tòs thu dheaninn do phòsadh (I Would Have Preferred Thee at First, But Not Now Sir) - Traditional
Bochd liath na‘n Gobhair (The Grey Buck) - Traditional

​James (Seamus) Goodman (1828-1896) was born near Dingle in County Kerry. A fluent Irish speaker and Uilleann piper of note, it was as a Church or Ireland Canon near Skibereen that he collected over 500 tunes and song airs from that area during the 1860’s. This collection Tunes of the Munster Pipers provides insight into pre-famine Irish music from that part of Ireland and indicates that piping was very strong there at that time. Punch for the Ladies comes from this collection. Latterly Goodman was professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin.

​I would have preferred thee first but not now sir is a fabulously Victorian translation common in these older collections of bagpipe music. The Gaelic title fits rhythmically with the tune so it is highly likely a Puirt a beul although we do not know what the rest of the words are.

​The Buck is the tune of a very old Gaelic song but most of the piping world knows this tune as The Maids of Kintail and often it is attributed to Donald MacLeod.

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Mike Katz & Alasdair White New York, New York

Mike Katz and Alasdair White have been playing together for almost 20 years, most notably as part of Scotland’s seminal Battlefield Band. In this time, as a matter of habit, they explored some of the more obscure, exciting and challenging corners of the Highland piping repertoire. Though both prolific composers in their own right, here they present traditional and collected music in its raw state. ... more

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