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The Boys of Blue Hill / The Stockport Hornpipe

from Quarehawk by Michael Walsh

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I first heard this first hornpipe played by the late great Tony Howley, a Sligo flute and
sax player based in Manchester for many years. A man of great sartorial elegance and
a beautiful Sligo style of playing. When I was young he played it down the phone to
me and I remember thinking how on earth would I ever be able to play like that.
Here’s my attempt. The second tune is a hornpipe sharing the same name as
the town I grew up in. I’ve grown to love English folk music and I wanted to find
something from my home-town to play in that style with Bryony and Will. I found this
on line in the 19th Century Kohler’s Repository of Dance Music collection housed in
the National Library of Scotland. I can’t be certain that it’s named after Stockport in the north west of England, but as there is no Stockport in Scotland, I’d like to think it is.

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from Quarehawk, released May 29, 2020
The Boys of Blue Hill / The Stockport Hornpipe (Trad Arr: Michael Walsh, Simon Bradley, Bryony Griffith, Will Hampson).
Tin Whistle: Michael Walsh
Fiddles: Simon Bradley, Bryony Griffith
Melodeon: Michael Walsh
Produced by Michael Walsh
Recorded & Engineered:
Sam Proctor Music Production, Sheffield.
Tom Wright at Powered Flight, Sheffield.
Mixed by Sam Proctor.
Mastered by Nick Cooke

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Michael Walsh Sheffield, UK

Manchester born, Sheffield based singer, fluter & poet. My music reflects growing up in the Irish community in Manchester my Yorkshire home & my love for the music of the Iberian peninsula. My flute playing is inspired by Irish traditional music from the west of Ireland. The album charts the last three years of my life. Celebration, loss, moving on & finding my own voice. ... more

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