Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMVIII

As more folks joined our merry troupe, practices and recordings got more complicated. It became more difficult just to rehearse and learn new tunes so recording naturally took a back seat. While we were getting together now with our friends Sport and Cate Moran, Sean and Ailene Caviliere, and Aonghus there weren't very many recordings of us playing together. Tim hadn't written very many new songs, and was mainly concentrating on learning some of the Irish standards I knew as we both were getting more serious about playing out. I wanted to make another CD to pass out at the Samhain event in October of 2008 but most of the recordings I had, while they were tunes we were working up as a group were mainly just my versions of them which had been made to help folks learn the tunes. Tim eventually came to own a lot of these songs, but only after I had made the CD. In a way, this CD marks the end of me and Tim fooling around and our starting to get more serious about sounding better as a group - unfortunately, the recordings here are at the very beginning of that transition.

We adopted the name Bardic Circle sometime shortly after the CD was made.

01  Lord Randal
02  Mermaid
03  As I Roved Out
04  Colins Shabeen
05  Come Out Ye Black and Tans
06  Drowsy Maggie
07  Twa Corbies
08  Reynardine
09  Rising of the Moon
10  Real Old Mountain Dew
11  Good Ale
12  Greenland Whale Fisheries
13  Shan Van Vocht
14  Star of the County Down
15  Spancil Hill
16  Steal Away
17  Heres a Health

  • YouTube and Twitch

    Music videos I've posted on social media
    2019

  • Thus Sang the Bard at Beltaine

    tunes I wanted to bring to Bardic Circle but never got good recordings for with the group
    2013

  • Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMXI

    Sport and Cate Moran help me carry on without Tim
    2011

  • TdB Bardic Circle Podcast

    All that is left of the podcast which I used to run in iTunes where I posted spippets of practice sessions or other funny stuff
    2010

  • Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMVIII

    more musicians and more merry music making in the medieval inspired genre
    2008

  • Momus and the Fomorians - Samhain MMVI

    More originals by Tim rounded out with lots more Irish and English folk
    2006

  • Comyn's Bardic Closet - Beltaine, MMVI

    Irish and medieval inspired folk tunes with several originals by Tim
    2006

  • NRN - Mostly Covers

    Mostly inspired by Rob, we worked up a lot of actual recognizable covers for a couple summers
    2000

  • Looking For Me

    I'm done screaming
    1998

  • Uruk Hai - Angel of Mercy

    An eclectic miscellany
    1993

  • LVC Sessions

    an EP of sorts produced by Todd of a few songs Ned and I had worked up
    1993

  • PREY

    an EP recorded by John in his basement
    1991

  • The Flying Mollusks

    some more original trip-metal meat puppets inspired material
    1991

  • In the daze of Ralph

    Ned, Todd, and I collaborate. Todd was a large influence here as he had been writing longer.
    1991

  • Identity Crisis

    more attempts at writing songs but perhaps a little angrier
    1991

  • Introspection

    My first attempts at writing songs
    1990

  • Chipmunks on Acid

    A very silly set of songs inspired mainly by my friend John
    1989

  • Me, Him, and the Other Ones

    Merry antics and deep lyrics by Morgan, great guitar work by Erik
    1984