Track 14 : Jigs

Lost and Found, The Haunted House, The Luthradán

Clare FM brought Kitty the first tune, from Terry Bingham's recording. Terry called it Tommy Peoples'. I think it was James Kelly who recorded the tune as The Lost and Found, a title now widely used.

I learned The Haunted House in 1983 from the playing of another piper who now too is part of a concertina and pipes duet: Tommy Keane. Only much later did I learn that Vincent Broderick composed the tune.

Junior Crehan had an elaborate story of how one night he caught a little creature that was bringing misfortune on his family coming down the chimney. It was the Luthradán, a second cousin of the Leprachaun. As a reward for his release, the creature took down the fiddle that was hanging on the wall and played this tune. Junior passed it on to us all. The tune is often played in the lower key of D, but we play it here in a version in G, which we heard played on the fiddle by Junior with his daughter Ita playing the whistle.