Gerry O’Connor - Gaelic Roots Lunchtime Series, Boston College
Channel: Burns Library Irish Music Archives, Boston College
Date: 2020-11-05

Gaelic Roots Lunchtime Series: virtual event with fiddle player Gerry O’Connor

Event premiere: Nov. 5, 2020, 12:00 noon EST (see tune list below)

Gerry O’Connor will present a lecture/performance based on his 2018 publication of The Rose in the Gap: Dance Music from the Oriel Region, a collection of the dance music of South Ulster from the turn of the 20th century.

With a focus on his local music of Oriel, he is known worldwide as a fiddle soloist and as a founder band member of Lá Lugh, Skylark and Oirialla.

Virtual events in the series are pre-recorded, set to premiere simultaneously on the Gaelic Roots Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/gaelicroots/ (including a Q&A session) and Burns Library’s Irish Music Archives YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/BurnsLibraryIMC

Presented by Irish Studies at Boston College, this virtual event is produced in collaboration with the John J. Burns Library Irish Music Archives and Boston College Libraries. The Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop, and Lecture Series is directed by Sheila Falls.

Duration: approximately 45 minutes

List of musical selections:

1. (Air and march) The Rose in the Gap
2. (Reels) The Cottage in the Grove / The Dandy Reel / Over the Bridge to Beeta
3. (Highland and reels) Delvinside / Drowsy Maggie / Yankee Cabbage / Miss Hutchinson’s / The New Line to Dublin
4. (Jig) The Drowsyman’s Hornpipe
5. (Hornpipe and reels) Gypsy Hornpipe / Blackberry Blossom / Peter Street
6. (Air) Úrchnoc Chéin Mhic Cáinte (Peadar Ó Doirnín, 18th century)
7. (Highland, jig, highland, and reel) Switch Her through the Heather / Peter McArdle’s Jig / Highland Down the Meadow / The Scutchers Reel 
8. (Barndance and reels) Betty Black / The Left Handed Reel / The Lass of Ballintra / The Rakes of Invercairn
9. (Strathspey and reels) The Marquis of Huntley (aka The Ewe with the Crooked Horn) / Lively Kate (aka Bouncing Kate) / Eliza of Roth 

Performer website: https://www.gerryoconnor.net