MEMORIES OF SLIGO/ROGER SHERLOCK
accompanied by Mary Conroy
Inchecronin, 1978, INC.7419
County Sligo is with counties Roscommon and Leitrim one of the best places for flute music in Ireland.
One of the biggest names is of course Matt Molloy but there are numerous other flute players who are highly respected. Roger Sherlock is one of them. He went to London in 1952 to get some work as many other Irishmen and became an important musician for the community. Brendan Mulkere who wrote the notes gives some details about that part of Sherlock's life. Inchecronin was a label in London in the 70s that's gone a long time ago.
Sherlock's style is traditional of course and is different in a way from contemporary flute playing we know now. But that style is still relevant in Co. Sligo. There are some mistakes or omissions about the titles of some tunes : for track A1 some sources give ''the Turnpike Gate and the Killavil's Fancy'', track A3 ''the Duke of Leinster and the Duke of Leinster's Wife'', track A5 the third reel would be ''the Old Pensioner'', track A7 ''the Queen of May and Anderson's Reel'', track B3 the scottisches are in fact hop jigs ''the Foxhunter's and Comb your hair and Curl it'', track B5 the first reel is ''Dash to Portabello'' composed by Sean Ryan, track B6 ''Tripping to the Well and the Kiss behind the Door'' and track B7 ''the Flowers of the Red Mill and the Streetplayer''. The guitar backing by Mary Conroy is sometimes not very good but it's not too bothering I think.
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