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25th Anniversary Celebration
''25th Anniversary Celebration'' (released in Japan as ''Altan: With the RTÉ Concert Orchestra'') is the tenth studio album by Folk music of Ireland, Irish folk music group Altan (band), Altan. It was released in January–March 2010. The album does not contain new original material (except for one new song, "Soilse na Nollag") for it is a compilation of studio re-recordings of previous material with orchestral arrangements. Overview ''25th Anniversary Celebration'' was recorded in the RTÉ studios, Dublin, Ireland with the contribution of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. It was made to commemorate Altan's 25th anniversary and features new arrangements of some of Altan's best-known songs and tunes. The album was released on 31 January 2010 in Japan (where it had its launch in December 2009 during Altan's Winter 2009 Japanese tour) and on 2 March 2010 in North America. Track listing # "Is the Big Man Within? / Tilly Finn's Reel" 3.52 (from ''Local Ground'' (2005)) # "Cití na gCuma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altan (band)
Altan are an Irish folk music band formed in County Donegal in 1987 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy. The group were primarily influenced by traditional Irish language songs from Donegal and have sold over a million records. The group were the first traditional Irish group to be signed to a major label when they signed with Virgin Records in 1994. The group has collaborated with Dolly Parton, Enya, The Chieftains, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss, and many others. Origin As an 18-year-old young student and musician from Belfast, Frankie Kennedy used to travel to Gweedore, County Donegal on his summer holidays, learning Irish and playing traditional Irish music on Irish flute and tin whistle. There he met native 14-year-old Irish-speaker and musician Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, the daughter of musician Proinsias Ó Maonaigh from Gweedore and the two fell in love with each other but Ní Mhaonaigh being very young, an innocent friendship began. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvest Storm
''Harvest Storm'' is the third studio album by Altan, released in April 1992 on the Green Linnet label. Track listing All titles arranged by Altan. # "Pretty Peg/New Ships A-Sailing/The Bird's Nest/The Man From Bundoran" (reels) – 3:37 # "Dónal Agus Mórag/The New-Rigged Ship" (song and reel) – 4:27 # "King of the Pipers" (jig) – 3:08 # "Séamus O'Shanahan's/Walking in Liffey Street" (jigs) – 2:33 # "Mo Choill" (song) – 4:10 # "The Snowy Path" (slip jig) – 2:12 # "Drowsy Maggie/Rakish Paddy/Harvest Storm" (reels) – 2:57 # "Sí Do Mhaimeo Í" (song) – 2:50 # "McFarley's/Mill Na Máidí" (reels) – 2:25 # "The Rosses Highlands" (highlands) – 2:58 # "A Nobleman's Wedding" (song) – 6:35 # "Bog An Lochain/Margaree Reel/The Humours of Westport" (strathspey and reels) – 3:34 # "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (slow air and reel) – 4:20 All titles are traditional except the following: *"Séamus O'Shanahan's/Walking in Liffey Street" composed by Paul O'Shaughnessy *" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouzouki
The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and a long neck with a fretted fingerboard. It has steel strings and is played with a plectrum producing a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but pitched lower. There are two main types of bouzouki: the ''trichordo'' (''three-course'') has three pairs of strings (known as courses) and the ''tetrachordo'' (''four-course'') has four pairs of strings. The instrument was brought to Greece in the early 1900s by Greek refugees from Anatolia, and quickly became the central instrument to the rebetiko genre and its music branches. It is now an important element of modern Laïko pop Greek music. Etymology The name ''bouzouki'' comes from the Turkish word , meaning "broken" or "modified", and comes from a particular re-entrant tuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing ''pallets'' to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called '' reeds''. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.For the accordion's place among the families of mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Whistle
The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. A tin whistle player is called a whistler. The tin whistle is closely associated with Irish traditional music and Celtic music. Other names for the instrument are the flageolet, English flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, tin flageolet, or Irish whistle (also ga, feadóg stáin or feadóg). History The tin whistle in its modern form is from a wider family of fipple flutes which have been seen in many forms and cultures throughout the world. In Europe, such instruments have a long and distinguished history and take various forms, of which the most widely known are the recorder, tin whistle, Flabiol, Txistu and tabor pipe. Predecessors Almost all primitive cultures had a type of fipple flute, and it is most likely the first pitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone than the deep tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional ( folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught " by ear" rather than via written music. Fiddling is the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. Among musical styles, fiddling tends to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (; born 26 July 1959) is an Irish fiddle, Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Folk music of Ireland, Irish folk music band Altan (band), Altan, which she co-founded with her late husband Frankie Kennedy in 1987. Today, Mairéad is recognised as a leading exponent in the Donegal fiddle tradition, and she is often considered one of the foremost singers in the Irish language, her native tongue. She was part of the Irish supergroup T with the Maggies who performed in January 2009 at Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin their first ever two concerts under that name and who released in October 2010 their debut (and to date only) album. After nearly 22 years with Altan, Mairéad released in February 2009 her debut solo album ''Imeall''. After 29 years with Altan, Mairéad released in October 2016 her alternate band Na Mooneys' debut album ''Na Mooneys (album), Na Mooneys''. Background Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore, County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proinsias Ó Maonaigh
Proinsias Ó Maonaigh () or Francie Mooney (28 April 1922 – 28 March 2006) was a fiddler from Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), County Donegal, Ireland. He is known for his distinguished fiddle playing and his unique and vast contribution to Irish music and culture. He is the father of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle player, lead vocalist and cofounder of Irish folk music band Altan) and grandfather of fiddle player Ciarán Ó Maonaigh. Early life Born in Gaoth Dobhair in 1922 as the youngest of eight children, he was a son of a famous musician from the area Róise Mhór who would have played with An Píobaire Mór ("The Great Piper") Tarlach Mac Suibhne. It was an Irish speaking household and traditional music was nurtured within the home and they were taught many Irish songs. Life and career In 1954, he married a Gaoth Dobhair woman, Kitty Ní Ghallchóir, and they have three children: Gearóid Ó Maonaigh, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Áine Ní Mhaonaigh (or Anna Mooney). Francie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Idol
''The Blue Idol'' is the eighth studio album by Irish traditional music, Irish traditional band Altan (band), Altan, released in February 2002 on the Narada Productions, Narada label. Overview ''The Blue Idol'' features guest artists such as Dolly Parton on "The Pretty Young Girl" (which was translated by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh's father Proinsias Ó Maonaigh) and Paul Brady on "Daily Growing". The album was mixed and engineered by nine-time Grammy Awards, Grammy Award-winner Gary Paczosa Critical reception ''The Blue Idol'' received a dithyrambic review from Billboard charts, Billboard, describing it as «a work of genius» and as «a triumph for Altan and a reminder of the endless charm of Irish music». Track listing # "Daily Growing" [song] – 4:53 (also known as "The Trees They Grow High") # "Frog Went A-Courting, Uncle Rat" [song] – 2:18 # "Roaring Water" [jig] – 3:15 # "The Pretty Young Girl" [song] – 4:39 # "The Blue Idol" ("The Blue Idol"/"The Butchers March") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwater (Altan Album)
''Blackwater'' is the fifth studio album by Altan, released in April 1996 on the Virgin Records label. Three of the songs are sung in Irish. "Ar Bhruach Na Carraige Baine" is sung partly in English and in Irish. "Blackwaterside" is sung in English. It was the first album released by the band since the death of founding member Frankie Kennedy two years earlier. The final track on the album is a tribute to Kennedy and was written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh herself. Track listing # "Johnny Boyle's/King of the Pipers" (Jigs) (Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 3.30 # "Dark Haired Lass/Biddy From Muckross/Sean Maguire's" (Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 2:51 # "Stór, A Stór, A Ghrá" (song) (Traditional) (Irish) - 2:51 # "Strathspey/Con McGinley's/The Newfoundland Reel" (Strathspey and Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) -3:11 # "Tá Mé 'Mo Shuí (I am awake)" (song) (Traditional) (Gaelic) - 4:08 # "An Gasúr Mor/Bunker Hill/Dogs Among the Bushes" (Hornpipe and Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runaway Sunday
''Runaway Sunday'' is the sixth studio album by Altan, released in July 1997 on the Virgin Records label. Track listing All titles arranged by Altan. # "Súil Ghorm" – 2:45 # "John Doherty's Reels" – 2:35 # "Caidé Sin Don Té Sin?" – 3:13 # "Germans" – 3:13 (barn dances) # "Clan Ranald/J.B.'s Reel/Paddy Mac's Reel/Kitty Sheáin's" – 4:17 # "I Wish My Love Was a Red Red Rose" – 3:50 # "Mazurka" – 2:29 # "Australian Waters" – 3:27 # "A Moment in Time" – 3:17 # "Ciarán's Capers" – 3:29 # "Cití Ní Eadhra" – 3:06 # "Flood in the Holm/Scots Mary/The Dancer's Denial" – 3:52 # " Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair" – 3:27 # "Time Has Passed" – 3:32 All titles are traditional, with the following exceptions: *"Súil Ghorm" – composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh *"Time has passed" – composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh *"A Moment in Time" – composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Mark Kelly *"The Dancer's Denial" – composed by Mark Kelly *"Paddy Mac's Ree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixth largest in Western Europe after the Acts of Union in 1800. Following independence in 1922, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
