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The Battle of Aughrim/Gravel Walk
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This set lilts through the first lament, and then kicks ass in the second tune.
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An itinerant bunch of traditional/contemporary Celtic musicians and singers with a loyal following in Hanoi, Vietnam and friends and former members around the w
The Social Weevils are a fluid bunch of musicians and singers who perform sets of traditional and contemporary Celtic tunes and songs from Ireland and Scotland. The band's first CD, "One for the Road," was recorded on January 3, 2000 at the Army Recording Studios in Hanoi, Vietnam, using instruments that were mostly cheap and/or broken. On that CD the Social Weevils were Peter Taylor (button accordion, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Higgins (tenor banjo, mandolin), Don McIntyre (fiddle), Huub Buise (guitar, vocals), Bob Baulch (guitar, vocals), and Mary O'Keeffe (vocals on one song). On Christmas Eve, 2000, the band recorded another CD, "Live at the R&R," at the R&R Tavern in Hanoi, Vietnam, thanks to owner Jay Ellis his wife and their son, and Ralph Raymond at the 4-track mixing board. The line-up that night was Peter Taylor on all his usual instruments and vocals, Don McIntyre on his fiddle, Ann Russell on recorders, Alec Soucy on tin whistle, Genvieve Thibault on bodhran and accapela vocals, Mary O'Keeffe providing Irish and English vocals, Joe Peters on guitar, mandolin and vocals, and assorted other friends (instruments, vocals, hand claps and foot stomps). The band's second studio CD, "Over the Ocean," was recorded in March 2004 at Kien Quyet Studio in Hanoi. The line-up for that album included Don McIntyre (fiddle, vocals), Anna Russell (recorders), Liz Druitt (bass clarinet), Darryl Rees (guitar, vocals), & Joe Peters (guitar).
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World • Traditional Celtic
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Peak #11
Peak in subgenre #2
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Traditional
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Copyright-free
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September 25, 2004
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MP3 2.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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The Battle of Aughrim was fought on 12th July 1691 at Aughrim (near Athlone) in Ireland. It was the last battle in the campaign between William III and James II (though The Boyne, 1690, has subsequently been regarded as the decisive battle) and involved English, Danish, French, Scots, Dutch, German and Irish troops on the Williamite side vs French, Irish and other troops for James. The tune is widespread in Ireland and seems to be known as "The Glorious Battle of Aughrim" or "The Terrible Battle of Aughrim" depending on which side you think you might have supported. King William III later travelled to Rome for an audience with The Pope, much to the dismay of many Protestant Irish people belonging to the Orange Order, when they find this out. One was known to remark "He wasn't the man I thought he was" of the man in whose honour the order was originally founded. --Ian C Gravel Walk is a traditional reel; we think it sounds like somebody walking, quickly mind you, through gravel.
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There may well be lyrics to these tunes somewhere, but we don''t know of any.
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