from Compositions by Liz Carroll
Liz Doherty, the great Donegal fiddle player, reached out to me in June of ’22 to ask me to write a piece that could be played for the opening TG4 program at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Mullingar. I had just written a slower tune and so I combined it with a couple of new reels to make “The Homecoming.” Liz thought the last tune could be brighter–in ’A’ maybe–so I sat down and wrote this one. It was a thrill hearing the tune played by a mass of young fiddlers (students of Louise Hunter and Geraldine McGlynn) alongside a stellar brass section, guitarist Sean Og Graham, percussionist Colm Phelan, bassist Conor McCreanor, and the phenomenal fiddler April Macaulay.
