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Last Night's Joy

by Gerry O'Connor , Fiddle

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Artist: Gerry O’Connor
Title: Last Night’s Joy Release Date: 17th October 2018
Catalogue No. : LUGCD966
Label: Lughnasa Music Barcode : 5391524046809

“Gerry O’Connor is a musician’s musician. He is virtuosic, but never showboats: brilliant on playing tunes of all kinds and equally outstanding on accompanying songs. A great colleague and a lovely man to boot. The full package.” Mick Moloney
"My mother's people are all fiddle players," he explains, "and on my father's side they were all brass and reed people”.
On this his 2nd solo recording, Gerry draws from a wide range of sources, amongst them, County Louth Fiddler Peter McArdle, Quequoise fiddle player Jean Carignan, Swedish nyckelharpa player Erik Sahlström, Belfast fiddler Sean Maguire and Boys of the Lough’s Cathal McConnell amongst others. Gerry adds “The CD is connected in a very real tangible way with my production of Cathal’s extensive song collection, ‘As I Travelled this Road’, which itself is linked to a hilarious car journey to a gig in Galway when Breton guitarist Gilles le Bigot asked Cathal for a couple of songs to prime him for the gig. Cathal duly serenaded us with 29 songs before we reached Ballinasloe.”
The album is produced by Gerry’s son Dónal O’Connor and features a veritable who’s who of traditional music - Séamie O’Dowd, Niall Hanna, Neil Martin and Seán Óg Graham amongst others. Gerry’s namesake, Gerry ‘Banjo’ O’Connor also features on one set of American Polkas, aptly entitled StereO Connor. In what is a musical delight, former Skylark bedfellow Máirtín O’Connor joins Gerry on a set entitled ‘The Hawk & the Hare’. “Máirtín and I played this polska when we first performed as a duo together in the late 80's. It is a pleasure to have him play this track, taking us back 20 years!” O’Connor is meticulous in linking tunes to sources, and honouring the musicians who themselves honour and uphold the music. He is a repository of tunes, names, events and it carries a very replenishing image of a musician at the height of creative finesse.
Long known as Gerry ‘Fiddle’ O'Connor, this is one fiddler whose pulse is quickened by the sheer delight in the tunes.
As a fourth-generation fiddle player, he knows the value of the shared tune. Having garnered much of his fiddle style
from his mother Rose (who played in a céilí band until she was six months pregnant), music was in the blood.
Gerry O’Connor is from Dundalk, Co. Louth, where he grew up in a family of musicians, dancers and singers, all taught by his mother, Rose. From an early age Gerry was involved Irish music, winning numerous All Ireland awards in a range of duets, trios and céilí band titles. Playing with Michael Coleman’s contemporary John Joe Gardiner in the 1970s shaped Gerry’s style in the form of the fluid, lyrical fiddle-playing of the great Sligo masters.
He was a step-dancer too, a grounding which complements his music, imbuing it with vibrancy, a pulsating rhythm for which he is noted, marking him today as one of the great fiddle players of his generation. He has played and recorded with Lá Lugh (Eithne Ní Uallacháin, (Sony Music)) and Skylark (Len Graham, Gary O’Briain & Máirtín O’Connor). Lá Lugh’s album Brighid’s Kiss was voted Album of the Year in 1996 by readers of Irish Music magazine, and Gerry’s solo CD Journeyman was rated in the top five Albums of 2004 by The Irish Times. This critically acclaimed recording, was heralded as a milestone in the recorded music of the Oriel region of South Ulster.
“If some enterprising soul could bottle the spirit of Gerry O’Connor and market it as a panacea, then universal good health would
inevitably ensue” Songlines
Press:
RedBox Music PR Oonagh Derby 173 University St, Belfast, BT7 1HR.
T: +44 2890 314981 M: +44 7894871288 E: oonagh@redboxrecording.com
Bookings: Lughnasa Music
E: gerryfiddleoconnor@gmail.com W: www.gerryoconnor.net

credits

released October 17, 2018

Producer; Dónal O'Connor
Engineer and Mixing: Dónal O'Connor
Assistant Engineer; Jack Warnock

Photography ; Clare Moloney
Graphic Design; Grace Higgins



Musician Track Credits

Dónal O'Connor (piano): 2, 3, 4, 8, 11; (fiddle) 9, 11; (tenor guitar) 8 Niall Hanna (guitar): 1, 2, 6, 11
Séamie O'Dowd (guitar): 5, 7
Máirtín O'Connor (accordion): 5, 11
Gerry O'Connor (banjo): 7, 11
Neil Martin ('cello): 4, 6, 10
Seán Óg Graham (guitar): 10
Dermot Moynagh (bodhrán): 1, 9, 11

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Gerry O'Connor Dundalk, Ireland

A product of 4 generations of fiddle players, Gerry's recordings, focus on local music. He is a founder member of Lá Lugh, Skylark and Oirialla, recording 14 CDs. His first solo album "Journeyman" was hailed as one of the significant albums of Irish fiddle music. Gerry is a member of the legends of The Irish Rovers and recently published a collection of local dance music "The Rose in the Gap" ... more

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