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28 Jan

Minnesota Original Video: Jolly Raftsman

Video of us playing the Ontario song The Jolly Raftsman on the banks of the St. Croix River on a cold October day.

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2024

  1. Yon Green Valley
  2. Nellie Greer 
  3. Carnanbane
  4. Mickey Free
  5. When the Manistee Went Down
  6. Duluth in Eighty-Two
  7. By Trait I’m a Raftman (Jack Haggerty)
  8. Zenith of the West
  9. The Day We Rode Behind McArthur’s Blacks
  10. To the Maids of Taconite
  11. Wearing of the Green

2023

  1. Michael James
  2. The Storm at Sea
  3. Driving Saw Logs on the Plover
  4. Young Monroe
  5. Ye Noble Sons of Canardie
  6. Down By the Tanyard Side
  7. Jack Rogers
  8. Lost Jimmie Whalen
  9. Jocky to the Fair
  10. Farewell to Nancy
  11. The Cuckoo
  12. At the Close of an Irish Day

2022

  1. The Lady Leroy 
  2. My Eileen is Waiting for Me 
  3. Farewell to Caledonia
  4. The Four Provinces
  5. Never Go Back on the Poor
  6. Two Irish Laborers
  7. The Arkansaw Navvy
  8. The Heights of Alma
  9. The Town Passage
  10. Patrick Sheehan
  11. Leaving Erin
  12. Tidy Irish Lad

2021

  1. Exile of Erin
  2. Young Matt Ilan
  3. The Irish American Club
  4. Learning McFadden to Waltz
  5. The Peelers of Ballinamore
  6. The Three Hunters
  7. May Morning
  8. The Wild Irishman
  9. The Diamond of Derry
  10. Doran’s Ass
  11. Sentenced to Death
  12. The Ram of Darby

2020

  1. The Apple Praties
  2. The Protestant Cow
  3. Lather and Shave
  4. The Hat My Father Wore
  5. The Three Dreams
  6. The Wind Sou’west
  7. Moorlough Mary
  8. Hiring Time
  9. Jessie Monroe
  10. Black-Eyed Susan
  11. To Cork Once I Did Go
  12. The Peddler

2019

  1. George Riley
  2. Our Captain Says “Away”
  3. The Fair at Bonlaghy
  4. The Lass Among the Heather
  5. Darby O’Leary
  6. The Jolly Roving Tar (Get Up Jack, John Sit Down)
  7. The First Day of April
  8. The Gallagher Boys
  9. The County Tyrone
  10. The Broken Shovel
  11. Roll Her to the Wall
  12. Highland Mary

2018

  1. Barney Flew Over the Hills
  2. Roving Cunningham
  3. Johnny Jarmin
  4. Riley and I Were Chums
  5. The Gallant Brigantine
  6. The Pokegama Bear
  7. The Lakes of Champlain
  8. Sweet Mary Jane
  9. Morzie Ellsworth
  10. The Dublin Lasses Reel
  11. The Deep Deep Sea
  12. The Boy of Love

2017

  1. Nora McShane
  2. The Raftsman
  3. The Fellow that Looks Like Me
  4. Sweet Recale
  5. The Farmer’s Boy
  6. The Lament of the Irish Emigrant
  7. Lovely Minnesoty
  8. Cole Younger
  9. The Croppy Boy
  10. Down in Yonder Valley
  11. The Apprentice Boy
  12. What a Time on the Way

2016

  1. Shanty Man’s Life
  2. The Hunter’s Death
  3. Vandiemens Land
  4. Lost on the Lady Elgin
  5. Persian’s Crew
  6. Heenan and Sayers
  7. Lovel
  8. Jerry Go Oil the Car
  9. To Work Upon the Railroad
  10. The Crafty Miss
  11. The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught
  12. A New Name and a New Project

2015

  1. The Brown Girl
  2. Kettle River
  3. The Three Nations
  4. Hibernia’s Lovely Jane
  5. The Bold Privateer
  6. Georgian Bay Ho Ho
  7. My Dear Irish Boy
  8. Molly Bawn (The Irish Girl)
  9. Caroline of Edinburg Town
  10. St. Patrick’s Day
  11. Ye Noble Big Pine Tree
  12. The Pitcher of Beer

2014

  1. You Rambling Boys of Pleasure
  2. The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught
  3. Barney Blake
  4. Lovel
  5. Down in a Salley Garden
  6. The Bigler’s Crew
  7. You Pretty Girls of Michigan
  8. Drummond’s Land
  9. Persian’s Crew
  10. Ned McCabe
  11. We Are Anchored by the Roadside, Jim
  12. Lonesome Hours of Winter

2013

  1. Banks of the Nile
  2. The Banks of Boyne
  3. What a Time on the Way
  4. The Lass of Dunmore
  5. Johanna Shay
  6. Vandiemens Land
  7. Shanty Boy (and the Farmer’s Son)
  8. Bold Daniel
  9. The Smugglers of Buffalo
  10. As I Rode Down Through Irishtown
  11. Lost on the Lady Elgin
  12. Young Sally Munroe

2012

  1. The Falling of the Pine
  2. Jerry Go Oil the Car
  3. Lost 1924 Recordings of Singer Michael Cassius Dean Rediscovered
  4. The Day That I Played Baseball
  5. The Roving Irishman
  6. Morrisy and the Russian Sailor
  7. The Flying Cloud
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