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I think your arrangements are gorgeous. They are truly beautiful and also not too hard to play. Not trying to be sycophantic here! Just wanted to let you know I think you do a great job! "  --Somerset Harp Festival attendee

"I wanted to say hello and to tell you how much I am enjoying the Harper's Escape collection. I finally found time to go through the CD and music for the "Another 10 years" and can't wait to get the the other CD, so I can go through the first 10 years. You guys did a great job of putting this together, and it is one of the few collections of traditional music that has both the recording and the sheet music. So it works for me and the other sheet music dependent."  --1995 Escapee Jeri

"I've really enjoyed listening to the "Another 10 Years" CD -- and Annie says that the first one is good too, so decided to get that one too ! Now all i need is more time to play…" --Leslie

 
 

“Had to tell you -- what terrific work you did for this book and CD - so nice to have the tunes all in one place. Thank you so much for doing that for us!”

--Escapee Pat S.

 
 

“must be neat, to look at the book and realize how much work and joy and music and memories it represents!”

--Annie V.
 
 

“ Thanks you for producing (yet again) a fabulous book of tunes and CDs!!! You all have become very special friends in my life.... ”

--Escapee Cathy S.
 
     
     
 
The Harpers' Escape is produced by You Gotta Have Harp Productions, 11 Country Lane, Voorhees, NJ 08043. Phone: 856-795-7637.
 
 
 

   
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Play-Along Folks: Click here to get a spreadsheet view of ALL the tunes we play, sorted by title, which gives you which book the tune is in.

 

book thumbnail Another Ten Years of Tunes Out of Print/PDF ONLY

A Compilation of 42 Tunes & Songs from the second 10 Years of the Harpers' Escape

Arrangements by Kathy DeAngelo, Debbie Brewin-Wilson, Grainne Hambly & William Jackson (50 pages, spiral bound)

Table of Contents

Airs,  Songs & Lullabies
Molly MacAlpin
Bruach na Carraige Báine
Buachaill ón Éirne
Casadh an tSugain
Cró Chinn t-Sáile
Eibhli Gheal Chiúin
Leezie Lindsay 
The Lichtbob's Lassie
Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow
Samhradh, Samhradh
Soft May Morn
Siúd Mo Chaileag

Hornpipes & Barn Dances
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
If There Weren't Any Women in the World
Peacock's Feather
Poll Ha'Penny

Jigs
Drummond Castle
How Can We Abstain from Whisky?
Ned Coleman's
We Were Drinking & Kissing the Ladies
The Luaithreadán
The Rakes of Clonmel
Tobin's Favourite

Marches & Minuet
Dawning of the Day
Highland March from Oscar and Malvina
Lady Dolly Primrose's Minuet  
Mo Ghile Mear
The Rowan Tree

O’Carolan pieces
Captain O'Kane
Henry MacDermott Roe
Lamentation of Owen O'Neill
Lord Galway's Lamentation
Lady Gethin

Polka & Slide
Connie Walsh's slide
Mrs. Crowley's polka 

Reels
Old Copperplate
O'Dowd's Favourite
Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Malt

Miscellaneous
Harris Dance
Loudon's Bonnie Woods & Braes
Fair Little Canavans
Farewell to Fiunary

CD Companion to the book
A 2-CD Set

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Kathy DeAngelo and Harpers' Escape teachers on guest tracks.
Debbie Brewin-Wilson on Disc 1, Track 17 and Disc 2, Tracks 10, 15
Grainne Hambly: Disc 1, Tracks 5, 10; Disc 2, Tracks 3, 6, 14,17
William Jackson: Disc 1, Tracks 9, 17; Disc 2, Tracks 5, 9.

Disc 1
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Eily Gheal Chiun 2 If There Weren't Any Women in the World 3 How Can We Abstain from Whiskey 4 Dawning of the Day 5 Henry MacDermott Roe 6 Mrs. Crowley's 7 Siud Mo Chaileag 8 Tobin's Favourite 9 Cro Chinn t-Saile 10 O'Dowd's Favourite 11 Lord Galway's Lamentation 12 Peacock's Feather 13 Bruach na Carraige Ban 14 Ned Coleman's/We Were Drinking & Kissing the Ladies 15 Captain O'Kane 16 Lady Dolly Primrose's Minuet 17 Lichtbob's Lassie 18 Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow 19 Farewell to Fiunary 20 Samhradh, Samhradh

Disc 2
1
Lady Gethin 2 Molly MacAlpin 3 Poll Ha'Penny 4 Fair Little Canavans 5 Soft May Morn 6 Highland March from Oscar and Malvina 7 Casadh an tSugain 8 Luaithreadan/ Rakes of Clonmel 9 Harris Dance 10 Loudon's Bonnie Woods & Braes 11 Buchaill on Eirne 12 Rowan Tree 13 Connie Walsh's 14 Lamentation of Owen O'Neill 15 Leezie Lindsay 16 Drummond Castle 17 Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine 18 Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Malt 19 Old Copperplate 20 Mo Ghile Mear

Thanks to Gráinne Hambly for Henry MacDermott Roe from her CD Golden Lights and Green Shadows and to William Jackson and Mill Music Publishing for permission to use Cró Chinn t-Sáile from The Ancient Harp of Scotland, Lady Dolly Primrose’s Minuet from Duan Albanch, Soft May Morn and Harris Dance from The New Harp. All tracks traditional, except the Luaithreadán jig, composed by Junior Crehan

the original:
Ten Years of Tunes

Out of Print/PDF ONLY

A Compilation of 36 Tunes & Songs from the First 10 Years of the Harpers' Escape AVAILABLE ONLY IN PDF

Arrangements by Kathy DeAngelo, Debbie Brewin-Wilson and Grainne Hambly

Table of Contents

Airs
Amazing Grace
Arran Boat Song
Mingulay Boat Song
Dream Angus 
MacCrimmon’s Lament
Hector the Hero 
Laoidh Chaluim Chille (Sound of Mull)

Hornpipes
Nellie Your Favour I'm Afraid I'll not Gain
Pleasures of Hope

Jigs
Andy DeJarlis 
Haunted House 
Gallagher's Frolics
Sean Coughlin’s (Christy Barry's #1)
Posadh Brighidin (Biddy’s Wedding) 

Marches
Tall nam bard nach beo (Hall of the Departed Bards)
O’Neill’s Cavalry March 
MacAllistrum’s March 
Rakes of Mallow 
Wind O’er the Borders
Wendell’s Wedding

Polkas
Maggie in the Wood
Egan's Polka 

Reels
Maid Behind the Bar
Wind that Shakes the Barley
Merry Blacksmith 
Humours of Scariff
Mountain Road
Man of the House
Four-Poster Bed

Strathspey
Welcome Whisky Back Again 

Slides
Road to Lisdoonvarna
Kieley’s Slide

Songs
Broom of the Cowdenknowes
If I Were a Blackbird
Loch Lomond
Down by the Sally Gardens

 

CD Companion to the book

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1  Sean Coughlin's (Christy Barry's #1) jig
2  Laoidh Chaluim Chille (Sound of Mull)  air
3  Man of the House  reel
4  Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?  song, Debbie
5  Humours of Scariff reel
6  Wind that Shakes the Barley / Maid Behind the Bar / Merry Blacksmith reels
7  Mingulay Boat Song  / Arran Boat Song  airs
8  Rakes of Mallow  march
9  Andy DeJarlis   / Haunted House  jigs
10  Tall nam bard nach beo  march
11  Loch Lomond  song, Kathy
12  Nellie Your Favour I'm Afraid I'll Not Gain/ The Pleasures of Hope  hornpipes
13  Posadh Brighidin (Biddy’s Wedding)  jig
14  Mountain Road reel
15  MacCrimmon’s Lament  air
16  Maggie in the Wood / Egan's  polkas    
17  Welcome Whisky Back Again strathspey
18  Dream Angus    air
19  Gallagher's Frolics jig
20 Road to Lisdoonvarna / Kieley’s  slides
21 Hector the Hero air
22  MacAllistrum’s March  march
23  Broom of the Cowdenknowes   song, Kathy
24  The Wind O’er the Borders  march
25  O’Neill’s Cavalry March  march
26  If I Was a Blackbird  song, Debbie
27  Amazing Grace  air
28  Wendell’s Wedding  march 
29  Four-Poster Bed   reel

Debbie Brewin-Wilson on Tracks 2,4,7,10, 13, 15, 17, 18, 24, 26, 27, 29
Grainne Hambly: Tracks5, 12, 14, 19
All other tracks by Kathy DeAngelo

updated 10/19/22

 

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Check out the review from Denise Grupp-Verbon of Another Ten Years of Tunes in the Fall issue of the Folk Harp Journal.

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