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My first cd "Uilleann Piper" is available from CD Baby. www.cdbaby.com./cd/tommymartin You can hear a few clips there too. Here is the list of tracks; 1. The Dawn / Buckleys Fancy. (Reels) Solo uilleann pipes 2. Sir Festus Burke (Carolan) Uilleann pipes and guitar - Paul McCabe 3. The Shaskeen / The Flax in Bloom (Reels) Solo uilleann pipes 4. Poor but Happy at 53 / Tom Martins Reel tin whistle and guitar - Peter Browne 5. Mick Hands Polka / Yannicks Gavotte uilleann pipes, guitar - Mick McNamara and bodhran - Mick McNamara 6. Jenny's Folly / The Merry Thatcher (Reels) uilleann pipes and guitar - Paul McCabe 7. Sir Sidney Smiths March uilleann pipes, flute - Clare Martin and fiddle - Jacqui Martin 8. Father O'Flynn / Dinny Delaney's Jig Solo uilleann pipes 9. The Jolly Tinker / The Merry Thatcher (Reels) uilleann pipes and guitar - Paul McCabe 10. An Clar Bog Deil (Slow Air) solo uilleann pipes 11. Splendid Isolation / The Copperplates (Reels) uilleann pipes and guitar - Mick McNamara	Track list for the new 'Shady Woods' CD 1. The Dublin Lads/The Flags of Dublin/The Four Knocks (Solo Uilleann Pipes) 2. The First Slip/Hardy Man the Fiddler/The Yellow Wattle Slip Jigs. (with Patsy O'Brien - Guitar and Kevin Buckley - Fiddle) 3. The Cloone Hornpipe (solo Uilleann Pipes) 4. Molly from Longford/The Wise Maid (uilleann pipes with Bernie McDonald - Guitar and Eileen Gannon - Harp) 5. The Shady Woods of Truagh/Jack Wade’s Reel Slow Air/ Reel (solo Uilleann Pipes) 6. Wallop The Spot/The Leg of the Duck/Temple Hill Jigs (solo Uilleann Pipes) 7. The Maple Leaf/The Man of Aran Reels (Low Whistle with Bernie McDonald - Guitar and Eileen Gannon - Harp) 8. Richard Dwyers/Late in the Night/Jack in the Box/Seamus Thompson’s Reel Reels (solo Uilleann Pipes) 9. Humors of Ballykeal/Sgt. Earlys Jig/The Shady Woods of Old Limerick Jigs (Uilleann Pipes and Patsy O'Brien on Guitar) 10. Terry Heigh Ho the Grinder/The Rakes of Drumlish Slip Jigs (Flute and Bernie McDonald - Guitar and Eileen Gannon - Harp) 11. Eleanor Kane’s/The Gooseberry Bush/The Spinners Delight Reels (Uilleann Pipes and Kevin Buckley - Fiddle) 12. The Fox Chase (solo Uilleann Pipes) 13. Green Grow the Rushes O/The Jolly Banger Barndances (I play pipes, flute, fiddles and banjo, Kevin Buckley drove the drums)	Musicians on the CD are; (click above)


Myself and Carlow fiddle player, Tricia Hutton, recorded on this Dare album. The band is fronted by ex-Thin Lizzy keyboard player, Darren Wharton.	I was uilleann piper with the Barleyshakes for a while. Alan and Kirsten Kelly are keeping it going in Austrialia. Alan Doherty is keeping her lit with Grada in Dublin and Larry Shaw is taking it handy in Hollywood (thats the Hollywood in Wicklow) Can't remember what Dave Hingerty is doing.	Michelle O'Brien and myself were rockers for an afternoon when we did some squeally solos on this Goth/Celtic/Metal album... RRRAAAWWWKKKKK :)


I did a little low whistle on fellow uilleann piper, Jimmy Morrison's album, The Pipers rest.	I played in this place for years. A lot of fun was had too!!!! I know the album cover is crooked but it's kind of how the pub looked the last time I left it.	Fellow north county Dublin musician, Brendan Lynch asked me to play a tune with him on this cd. I heard a rumour that he has another one due out. "....I was born in sweet Kilarney,one day when I was young.... "


Myself and Clare fiddle player, Michelle O'Brien recorded a set of reels for this album. The best pub in the world for a pint and a tune.	I did a bit of uilleann pipes on this when I lived in Hong Kong. It was recorded as a kind of farewell to the territory when it was handed back to China in 1997.