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WEST OF GALWAY
Southwest Florida's Premier Irish Party Band
 
 
 

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'Searching for the Craic' is the title of our latest CD.

We hope the music takes you where it's taken us over these past years. Many new faces that have become great friends, and many who heard our first performance in 2003 and have joined us ever since.... Thank you, to all of you.

Your voices, laughter and smiles are what keeps West of Galway moving forward. We hope to still be enjoying all of this for many years to come.

For Generations families & friends have gathered around the kitchen table for fun, food and drink.

This collection of music is a celebration of that long tradition

So.... fill the table with food, pour a round for the house, get your singing voices together, & join us in song!

  • O'Sullivan's John
  • Galway City
  • Nancy Whiskey
  • Goodbye Mick
  • Boys of Blue Hill / Off to California
  • Mountain Dew / John Ryan's Polka / Hills of Connemara
  • All For Me Grog
  • Wild Colonial Boy
  • Back Home in Derry
  • Galway Bay / German Clockwinder
  • Foggy Dew / King of the Faeries
  • The Night Pat Murphy Died
  • Charlie on the MTA
  • Fields of Athenry
  • Ireland thru My Eyes

  • Fiddler's Green
  • Black Velvet Band
  • Star of the County Down
  • Wild Mountain Thyme
  • Irish Rover
  • Finnegan's Wake
  • Rose of Clare
  • Immigrants Eyes
  • Spancil Hill
  • Haste to the Wedding/Saddle the Pony/Kesh Jig
  • Whiskey in the jar
  • The Wild Rover
  • The Mermaid
  • Black is the Color

 Craic' : [ Irish ] / pronounced: crack / The combined sensation of the conversation, the company, the music, the drink, the spirit of the surroundings;
"the craic" is what drives all emotion and music that comes from the soul.



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The little island that has populated the world.

This collection of music tells the stories of the hard life Irish men and women have had to endure, and is a tribute to thier fight for survival in the new world. It tells how through immigration we've come to be here in America. These songs are the basis of how West Of galway came to be. How our families immigrated and worked hard to establish a new life in the new world. How the traditions of Ireland have carried on through generations. We're very proud of this collection of songs and hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we have enjoyed putting them together.

  1. Botany Bay
  2. Rakes Of Kildare
  3. Step It Out Mary
  4. Waltzing Matilda
  5. The Night Visit
  6. Rocky Road To Dublin
  7. Scotland The Brave/Will Ye No Come Back Again/Mari's Wedding
  8. Belfast Mill
  9. Leaving Of Liverpool
  10. Kilkelly Ireland
  11. The Holy Ground
  12. Red Is The Rose
  13. The Hills Of Donegal
  14. Julia Delany