Johnny Doherty playing fiddle Part 2 of 2

The great Johnny Doherty plays Peter Kennedy's fiddle while Pete Seeger interviews and accompanies some of the items on 5-string banjo. Recorded by PK they were filmed by Toshi, Pete's wife, in a downpour rainstorm in a motor-caravan at Carrick, Co Donegal (1964).
Tunes:
The Star Hornpipe
Jig: The Irish Washerwoman
Reel: The Yellow Heifer (or Paddy on the Turnpike)
Song Air: Easter Snow
Descriptive: The Fox Chase
Jig: The Connaughtman's Rambles
A comrade at thesession.org half-remembers a story about the recording session:
"The gist was that Kennedy and Seeger rolled up in the caravan without advance warning. Johnny was actually in bed with a severe cold or flu. Such was the innate politeness of the man that he arose from his sick bed, walked across some fields (presumably in that rainstorm) to where the caravan had stopped, and played for the visitors. Can anyone else confirm the accuracy of this?"

[@roisinwhite390]

Outstanding!!!We are priveleged to have this clip, chat, see Johnny D, all in the past, but very much alive and appreciated. Go raibh mile maith agat!Roisin White

[@fissta1]

Jamuary 29th 2014 - Sad Day Today as I learn Pete has died. - Another Legend Gone - Pete Seeger - RIP
Once upon a time in Carrick, SW Donegal, the great Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi and family drove up our main street and parked their car and caravan in tow outside John Maloney’s Ostan Sliabh a’ Liag. Outside the hotel door the fly fishing rods were stacked neatly as the hotel attracted a strong clientele of salmon and seatrout angling guests that fished the Glen River and lakes. The hotel was well renowned for the best meals around consisting of local fish, lamb, pork and steaks. In the evening the entertainment would occasionally have the odd surprise star performance from either a local fiddler such as Frank Cassidy or from the many traveler fiddlers on the circuit who were welcomed and well treated in every pub as they drew the crowds from far and near. Pete Seeger was on a trawl of Irish folk music and local GP Dr Malachy Mc Closkey led the search party to track down the great Johnny Doherty who was travelling near Slieveatooey at that time. The doctor, who knew and valued Pete Seeger persuaded Doherty to defer plans and drove him to Carrick where this recording was made on our street as the rain fell on the tin roof. There is also good footage of Seeger earlier that year at various gigs of his high profile1964 world tour. It is hard to believe and the footage proves that he ended his time in Europe with a session in that rental caravan on the Slieve League peninsula with another legend of our own. Johnny Doherty was a regular sight in the village coming and going but he eventually spent some of his final days living in the Dr. O’Byrne’s Golden Gate Doc’s Bar formerly the Glencolmcille Hotel in Carrick. See part 2 where his rendition of the fox and the hounds tune was a familiar sound coming from the one of the seven pubs as you stood on the street. In the notes to the clip we learn that Pete’s wife, Toshi, who died last year was behind the camera during these recordings as their kids played outside the caravan on the street. I remember that time when the Yanks came to town as one of excitement and the making of new friends to play who seemed to have an abundant supply of candy which they shared generously from their mother with the far Eastern smile as she distributed them among us with fairness. Their middle daughter was Tinya who shared my ripe old age of eight years at the time. We played our daily games of Kitty Out on the enclosed school green opposite the hotel where the caravan was recording for posterity. Once we got a gawk inside but all I saw was a bright light similar to the one I saw in Dentist Donal Martin’s which was enough to lose any interest to explore inside. Nobody knew that there was a recording made until this UA-cam clip turned up in 2010. Thanks for posting it Martin.
To all the Seeger family, the village of Carrick and Ireland extends their sympathy especially to son Daniel, and daughters Mika and Tinya. You’re too long away from us. Rath De oraibh go leir.

[@jw_senior]

The greatest of all modern Irish fiddlers. Brilliant stuff altogether, thanks for posting this Martin

[@untonsured]

John Wheatley up there with coleman.

[@ZippyClips]

It doesn't get better than Easter Snow.

[@LarrySanger]

Fantastic--thanks for posting these!!!

[@SusanElliot]

Magic!

[@nishii51]

From the FolkTrax site: The great Johnny Doherty plays Peter Kennedy's fiddle while Pete Seeger interviews and accompanies some of the items on 5-string banjo. Recorded by PK they were filmed by Toshi, Pete's wife, in a downpour rainstorm in a motor-caravan at Carrick, Co Donegal (B&W 1964/ 15 mins)

[@ambassadorfish]

This is the only version that Doherty played. It's very different to the full 8 minute piece composed by Edward Keating Hyland. I don't know where very virtuosic passage in this version comes from but there is a relationship between it and the other descriptive piece played by all the Dohertys The Hare and the Hounds.
There is a video somewhere on youtube of Liam Og O'Flynn playing the full piece.

[@ambassadorfish]

Just to add a slight correction to the tune titles for the first video in the description, it's:
The Loughside Hornpipe
The President (comp. JS Skinner)
The Irish Washerwoman
Lord McDonald's

[@clarebannerman]

I'd say the clip is from the mid 60's.