Henry Macdermott Roe / Planxty Hewlett (Carolan)

from From Sliabh Moscó to Cathair Pheadair by Polca an Rí

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Airs: HENRY MACDERMOTT ROE / PLANXTY HEWLETT

Sophie Petkevich – keyboards
Anton Zille – tinwhistle & fiddle
Alexander Shimchyuk – flute
Evgeny Kazenkov – bouzouki

Every band playing Irish music seems to be facing a choice whether to enter a relationship with Turlough O’Carolan’s tunes, and in our case we’ve been shamelessly using them as dance music for the waltzes. While we have no regrets about our crimes against baroque (-era music), this particular set was in fact born at an innocent home tune once upon a time in St. Petersburg. Sophie played the first air on the keyboards, while Tony knew it on the whistle, and we found the combination to be quite sweet. Carolan wrote the first tune to honour his principal patron family, while Hiúlit or Hewlett remains a mystery gentleman, but he has sort of become the more famous of the two thanks to the recordings of The Chieftains and Planxty.

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from From Sliabh Moscó to Cathair Pheadair, released July 4, 2021
Henry Macdermott Roe and Planxty Hewlett were composed by the blind travelling harper Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738), born in Newton, County Westmeath and apprenticed by Mrs. MacDermott Roe in Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon. Arranged by Polca an Rí.

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