Track Listing: 1. Boys of the Lough, Devils of Dublin, Reel with the Beryl. Reels (3.40) 2. The Foxhunters, Comb Your Hair and Curl It. Hop Jigs (1.32) 3. Throw It Across the Road, Maid in the Cherry Tree, Jenny Picking Cockles. Reels (3.31) 4. I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her, Petticoat Loose. Jigs (2.52) 5. Navvy on the Shore, Glen of Aherlow, Dublin Porter, Pinch of Snuff. Reels (4.51) 6. Roosky Polka, McDonagh's. Polkas (3.01) 7. The Tinkers Stick, Sunny Banks, The Virginia. Reels (3.41) 8. Mrs Galvin's, The Legacy Jig. Jigs (2.49) 9. An Buachaill Dreoite, Mairseail Ui Shuilleabhain. Hornpipe, Jig, March. (4.14) 10. Cronin's, O'Keeffe's, Dawley's Delight. Slides (3.21) 11. John Kelly's College Groves, Maids of Galway, The Templehouse. Reels (2.53) 12. John O'Mahony's, Pride of the West, The Pullet That Wants the Cock. Jigs (4.00) 13. Mary Brennan's Favourite, Follow Me Down to Carlow, Fowler on the Moor. Barndances (2,33) 14. Larkin's Beehive, Road to Lisdoonvarna, The Dash to Portobello. Reels (3.20) Click on underlined titles to hear MP3 sound bites

We are delighted to announce our release of this already classic CD.

Comb Your Hair and Curl It
Traditional Irish Music on Flute, Fiddle and Concertina
CD MOO333

Catherine McEvoy, flute
Caoimhín ÓRaghallaigh, fiddle
Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh, concertina


Three of Ireland's finest traditional soloists combine their talents to produce the first classic CD of 2010. This will become a much loved and oft immitated recording. Many players will derive great inspiration from this recording. The 3 soloists had just finished a gruelling 5 week tour of Ireland and decided that music they made was worthy of making a CD and here it is. Just sit back and enjoy!

Previous recordings available from Copperplate
Catherine McEvoy:
Traditional Music in the Roscommon/Sligo Tradition
The Home Ruler
Catherine & John McEvoy: The Lismore Fancy

Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh,
The Nervous Man
Inside Out
with Providence
Debut album
A Fig For A Kiss

Caoimhín ÓRaghallaigh
with Mick O'Brien. Kitty Lie Over

Click on the link to see Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh & Danny O'Mahoney on UTube playing 4 great reels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YLo3wH8dsk

Press Reviews

www.LiveIreland.com
Two years ago, flautist Catherine McEvoy was our Female Musican of the Year. Here she is with Micheal O’Raghallaigh on concertina and Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh on fiddle. The album is Comb Your Hair and Curl It, and it is perfect. Pure. Trad. Magic from three magicians. There is no album recently that we have listened to more. Just get it. You’ll hear the real drop. Stunning. Bill Margeson

The Chicago Irish American News.
Two years ago, flautist Catherine McEvoy was our Female Musican of the Year. Here she is with Micheal O'Raghallaigh on concertina and Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh on fiddle. The album is Comb Your Hair and Curl It, and it is perfect. Pure. Trad. Magic from three magicians. There is no album recently that we have listened to more. Just get it. You'll hear the real drop. Stunning. Bill Margeson

Irish Music Magazine July 10
It's easy to see where the title for this CD came from. There's a touch of the pre-Raphaelites about Caoimhfn's appearance on the cover which probably made an instant connection with the cantering slip-jig on track two.

In their sombre jackets and open-collared shirts, the O'Raghaillaigh boys could have been photographed any time since knee-britches went out of fashion, and Catherine's little black number is equally timeless. But it's not just the appearance of these musicians which defies chronological categorisation: their playing is similarly classic and eternal. Flute, fiddle and concertina duck and dive through reels, jigs, slides, hornpipes, marches, barndances and polkas which would all have been familiar to Irish musicians of several previous generations. There are a couple of compositions from the mid twentieth century, but otherwise this is all old material. And who better to bring it alive than this trio of highly respected soloists from County Meath. Catherine is one of the finest flute-players around Dublin, in great demand as a teacher and performer. Micheal is acknowledged as an exceptional young concertinist with a couple of albums under his belt. Caoimhin had moved to the west coast of Ireland a few years ago, fallen in love with the pipes after a duet recording with Mick O'Brien, but he's apparently back home now and playing fiddle better than ever. You can hear immediately that these three fit perfectly together, the concertina pumping out The Boys of the Lough while flute variations weave around it and fiddle chords cut through the melody.

The music here is a feast of Irish tradition, with plenty of excitement to be had from these grand old tunes. / Buried My Wife and Danced On Top of Her changes dramatically into Petticoat Loose. A Chieftains favourite The Sunny Banks leaps out of a set of reels, the most striking version I've ever heard. Drag Her Round the Road opens a deep driving duet between the boys, its low octave melody enhanced by a concertina bass line which maintains its earthy growl through Maid in the Cherry Tree and Jenny Picking Cockles. Another duet becomes a trio as Catherine's flute tears into The Legacy Iig. Instruments are swapped in and out very effectively throughout this album, varying the sound without losing the mood. Catherine steps back again from a set of stomping slides including O'Keeffe's and Dawley's Delight, but the flute comes through strongly on the final three reels: Larkin's Beehive by Paddy O'Brien, The Road to Lisdoonvarna, and Sean Ryan's composition The Dash to Portobello.

All in all, this is a perfectly balanced recording and a splendid example of traditional duets and trios. Comb Your Hair and Curl It is certainly a highlight of 2010 for me. Alex Monaghan