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Alan Pittwood

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The Green Linnet
« on: May 25, 2019, 09:13:58 PM »

The Green Linnet
Tony Mac Mahon (18 April 1939, Ennis, - to date)
Bernard Noel "Barney" McKenna (16 December 1939, Dublin - 5 April 2012, Howth)

The Green Linnet was a series of six twenty-five minute programmes first broadcast in 1979; later restored and rebroadcast in 2006.
Since then they have been available, from time to time, through RTÉ's TG4 Player.   Some programmes may be found on YouTube.

The Green Linnet itself was the green Citroen 2CV van that carried the musicians Tony MacMahon (accordion, anglo concertina) and Barney McKenna  (tenor banjo, mandolin) on their travels.  The programmes were recorded in the second half of the 1970s and the intention, as explained by
Tony in the first programme, was to follow the inspiration of the last of the travelling pipers, Johnny Doran, and play for 'small pieces of money' on the roads and streets of Ireland and Europe.

The series won awards across Europe on its first showing but it was said that, under the pressures of the trip, Tony and Barney clashed so badly that they did not speak to each other for twenty years.

Their reconciliation allowed for that restoration and rebroadcast in 2006.  It also allowed of an entirely new programme,
The Green Linnet Remembered that was filmed in Tony McMahon’s house on Good Friday 2006 and included the series cameraman Seamus Deasy.

part 1  Fleadh, Ennis, County Clare  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhSuGqbpis
                                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUAMpzYzDis
                                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdJI7XpeelY

part 2  Lanrivain, Brittany               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdJI7XpeelY [Incomplete, from 5:45 for about five minutes only]

part 2  Lanrivain and Kemper [Quimper], Brittany  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG_k8nbBPe8

part 3  Germany

part 4  Switzerland Florence Italy               

part 5  St Tropez, South of France
https://tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=5680612578001&teideal=The%20Green%20Linnet&series=The%20Green%20Linnet&dlft=19

part 6  Andorra
https://tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=5680634404001&teideal=The%20Green%20Linnet&series=The%20Green%20Linnet&dlft=19


Part 4 is not available on the TG4 Player.   And both parts 5 and 6 have only 9 days left to view, as at 25 May 2019.   
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Re: The Green Linnet
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2019, 09:53:59 AM »

Thank you for that
Green Linnet was also of course the name of a famous recording label specialising in 'Celtic' music. Did some great stuff though also sometimes mired in disputes etc, as with Tony and Barney. 
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Re: The Green Linnet
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2019, 01:15:34 PM »

Green Linnet was also of course the name of a famous recording label specialising in 'Celtic' music. Did some great stuff though also sometimes mired in disputes etc, as with Tony and Barney.

And also one of the great Bonaparte ballads...unless I'm wrong which is often the case... :|glug
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Re: The Green Linnet
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2019, 01:19:22 PM »

Compass Records of Nashville, Tennessee bought Green Linnet Records, along with Celtophile Records [Green Linnet's budget compilations] and Xenophile Records [Green Linnet's world music label] in 2006 (it also bought Mulligan Records in 2008).

Go to http://compassrecords.com/artists/ then use the drop-down All-labels to narrow down the search for more information and to see what remains available from the Green Linnet catalogue.

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Re: The Green Linnet
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2019, 01:34:34 PM »

Green Linnet was also of course the name of a famous recording label specialising in 'Celtic' music. Did some great stuff though also sometimes mired in disputes etc, as with Tony and Barney.
And also one of the great Bonaparte ballads...unless I'm wrong which is often the case... :|glug

The Green Linnet was code for Napoleon Bonaparte to whom Irish nationalists looked for support.

Have a look at Richard Zierke's Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music discography website: https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/about.html

and, particularly, https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thegreenlinnet.html  for detailed discussion of recordings of The Green Linnet.
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