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Randal Bays

About the artist

"A commanding presence on the fiddle." - The Irish Times “His playing has power and passion... simply a joy to listen to.” - Dirty Linen Magazine Randal Bays is a self-taught US-born musician who's been playing Irish fiddle for more than thirty years; he's now widely recognized as a master of that complex, ancient art, in particular the traditional styles of Co. Clare and Co. Galway. He's "among the best Irish style fiddlers of his generation", according to Fiddler Magazine.

Top songs

  1. Air: Ny Kirree Fo Sniaghtey (The Sheep Under The Snow)
  2. Slip Jigs: The Mother's Day / Elizabeth Kelly's Delight
  3. Ambrose Moloney's Reel/I'm Waiting for You/The Haymaker
  4. A Stor Mo Chroi
  5. Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
  6. Molly St. George
  7. The Wounded Hussar
  8. Bill McEvoy's/Maids of Mt. Kisco
  9. Corney Is Coming, The Coachman's Whip, Paddy Canny's Toast
  10. Miss Ramsay's Fling/Miss Wilson's Fling
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  1. The Humours of Carrigaholt/McGreevey's/Toss the Feathers
  2. The Gallowglass Jig/Clancy's
  3. The Ragged Hank of Yarn/Rolling in the Barrel/In the Tap Room/Th
  4. The Ninety-Nine March/The Ninety-Eight March
  5. The Concertina Hornpipe/The Homer Spit
  6. Maghera Mountain/Castle Kelly
  7. Austin Tierney's Reel/The Pretty Girls of Mayo
  8. The Humours of Lissadell/The Road to Cashel
  9. Coinleach Ghlas an Fhomhair
  10. Jamie's Boat/The Ship Sails Home
  11. The Golden Gardens/The Salmon's Leap
  12. East at Glendart/King of the Pipers
  13. Castle Kelly - The Bunch of Green Rushes
  14. The Sailor on the Rock/The Vaughan House
  15. Planxty Irwin/The South Wind
  16. Grenn Grow the Rushes, O/Tim Moloney's
  17. Lament for the Great Forests
  18. Mary Claflin's Reel/The Noon Lasses
  19. The Cause of My Sorrows
  20. The First Hard Rain/Ryan's Rant
  21. The Praireton Jig/The Blossom of Ballisland
  22. The Lark In the Clear Air
  23. The Shaskeen Jig/The Floating Bridge
  24. The Shore of Lough Graney/Ormond Sound
  25. The Gypsy Princess/The Woman of the House
  26. Molly Bawn
  27. The Princess Royal
  28. Planxty George Brabazon/Miss McDonald's Reel
  29. Miss Hamilton
  30. An Crubach - Si Beg, Si Mor
  31. The Trip to Durrow
  32. Planxty Maurice O'Connor/Carolan's Welcome
  33. Fine Summer's Morning
  34. The Cuil Aodha Jig - The Lark on the Strand
  35. Lucy Campbell/The Boys of Ballisodare
  36. Oyster Light
  37. Planxty Irwin / The South Wind
  38. Whately Snow
  39. Patsy Tuohey's/The Four Courts/The Reel of Bogie
  40. Bach Cello Prelude
  41. Corney Is Coming/The Coachman's Whip/paddy Canny's Toast
  42. Drowsy Maggie/Paddy Fahey's
  43. The Jolly Tinker
  44. Handsome Sally/The Broken Pledge
  45. The Speed Limit/Like I Care
  46. The Master's Degree March
  47. Allisdrum's March/The Hungry Rocks
  48. Lucy Farr's Reel/Crotty's Glory
  49. The Heathery Breeze/The Wind That Shakes the Barley/Katy Bar The
  50. Humours of Ennistymon/Old Tipperary
  51. I Will If I Can/Child of My Heart
  52. The Sheep Under the Snow
  53. The Speed Limit, Like I Care
  54. The Heathery Breeze, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Katy Bar The
  55. The Blackbird Hornpipe/The Rights of Man
  56. Finbar Curtin's Reel/The Wheels of the World
  57. The Bold Trainer, O
  58. Drowsy Maggie, Paddy Fahey's
  59. Allisdrum's March, The Hungry Rocks
  60. Strange Mary/The Traveller's Return
  61. My Love in the Morning/Who'll Be King but Charlie
  62. The Bank of Turf/Patrick Kelly's
  63. The Tailor's Thimble, The Pile Of Bricks, The Boys At The Lough
  64. I Will If I Can, Child Of My Heart
  65. Jamie's Boat / The Ship Sails Home
  66. The Banks of the Quay - An Chuillean
  67. Lucy Campbell, The Boys Of Ballisodare
  68. The Sheep Under the Snow (Ny Kirree Fo Sniachtey)
  69. Maggie Pickens/Banish Cnoc Na Gclarach/the Blue Whale
  70. Princess Royal
  71. Paddy's Rambles Through the Park
  72. Slip Jigs--The Mother's Day-Elizabeth Kelly's Delight
  73. Dowd's Favorite/Coen's Memories/The Mullingar Lea
  74. An Seansliperein Donn/Port An Deorai
  75. Banish Misfortune/The Monaghan Jig
  76. The Signing of the Papers (Tá Na Paipéir Dhá Saighneáil)
  77. Planxty Maurice O'Connor / O’carolan's Welcome
  78. Eleanor Kane /The Maids of Mitchellstown
  79. Dick Cosgrove's Reel/The Colonel's Delight
  80. The Friday Harbor Reel/The Milliner's Daughter
  81. Slip Jigs: The Mother's Day/Elizabeth Kelly's Delight
  82. The Green Stubble Fields of Autumn (Coinleach Ghlas an Fhomhair)
  83. The Tailor's Thimble/The Pile of Bricks/The Boys At the Lough
  84. Dick Cosgrove's Reel, The Colonel's Delight
  85. Air--Ny Kirree Fo Sniaghtey (The Sheep Under The Snow)
  86. My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
  87. The Bank Of Turf, Patrick Kelly's
  88. An Seansliperein Donn, Port An Deorai
  89. The First Hard Rain / Ryan's Rant
  90. Baptist Johnson - The Emigrant's Jig

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