The Keegan Tunes: Volume 1 Companion CD - Josephine Keegan

Josephine Keegan has been playing the fiddle all her life, and is also internationally famous as an accompanist. She has composed many tunes, and of these many have passed into the tradition. She has now published a book of her compositions, with accompanying audio. This double CD contains all the Keegan tunes, played by many musicians and extending to 45 tracks.

Josephine Keegan’s unique contribution to Irish Traditional Music is legendary, and with this CD and book it has been given the long overdue public recognition her work so deserves. The full-color book contains notations of all the 80 tunes included (reels, jigs, hornpipes, marches and slow airs), and the CD features 38 musicians from Keegan’s beloved South Armagh region, an area steeped in rich tradition.