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Cillian Vallely
Cillian Vallely is an Irish musician, born in Armagh, Northern Ireland. He plays traditional Irish music on the uilleann pipes and low whistle, and studied at the Armagh Pipers Club with his mother and father, Brian and Eithne, and then with the late Armagh piper Mark Donnelly. His brothers, Niall and Caoimhín, also play traditional music. Since 1999, he has been a member of the band Lúnasa with whom he has recorded seven albums. He has also performed and toured with Riverdance, Natalie Merchant, Tim O'Brien & Mary Chapin-Carpenter in The Crossing, New York-based Whirligig, and the Celtic Jazz Collective with Lewis Nash and Peter Washington. In the past couple of years, he has worked on various collaborations between traditional and classical music, along with his brother Niall and the composer Micheal O’Suilleabhain. He has recorded on over 40 albums including ''Callan Bridge'' with his brother Niall, ''On Common Ground'' with Kevin Crawford and various guest spots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Hopes (Bruce Springsteen Album)
''High Hopes'' is the eighteenth studio album by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen, released January 14, 2014, on Columbia Records. It went to the top of the charts in eleven countries, and was Springsteen's eleventh No. 1 album in the United States, a record surpassed only by The Beatles and Jay-Z. It was his tenth No. 1 in the UK putting him on par with The Rolling Stones and U2. ''Rolling Stone'' named it the second-best album of 2014. The album is a collection of cover songs, out-takes and re-imagined versions of tracks from past albums, EPs and tours. Springsteen's regular backing band, the E Street Band, perform along with guitarist Tom Morello. Contributions from deceased members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici also feature. Background Springsteen said that the new music was "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade" and among his best writing and deserved a proper studio recording. Work on the album started on December 9, 2012, when Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ships In The Forest
''Ships in the Forest'' is a studio album by Irish traditional singer Karan Casey, and the first to be released primarily on her own label. The album features much of Casey's live band, as well as her brother-in-law and husband, both members of the band ''Buille''. The album features one song in Irish and many Irish traditional songs. There is also a song by Joni Mitchell. The album's title is a reference to the last track, the traditional Scots song '' I Once Loved a Lass'', which includes an enigmatic verse that asks "how many ships sail through the forest?" Track listing # "Love Is Pleasing" # " Dunlavin Green" # "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" # "Black Is The Colour" # "Town of Athlone" # "Maidin Luan Chincíse" # "The Fiddle and the Drum "The Fiddle and the Drum" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell; it was first recorded by Mitchell on her 1969 album ''Clouds''. It was one of the songs performed by Mitchell on ''The Dick Cavett Show'' on August 19, 1969, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Ann Bradley
Dale Ann Bradley is an American bluegrass musician. She is a six-time (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2021) Female Bluegrass Vocalist of the Year, a distinction given by the International Bluegrass Music Association. She has released music both as a solo artist and as part of the group New Coon Creek Girls. Early life Bradley was born in southeastern Kentucky. Her father was a coal-mining Baptist minister. She grew up without running water or electricity until she was a senior in high school. She also lived with heavy religious restrictions with her father being a minister. She received her first guitar at the age of 14, making a guitar pick out of a plastic milk carton to play. As a junior in high school, Bradley met a childhood friend of her mother who was also her new band director at school. He and his wife sang at Pine Mountain State Park, located in Pineville, Kentucky, in the summers and invited Bradley to perform with them. She played with the band (Backporch Grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Simon (musician)
Alan Simon (born 3 July 1964) is a French folk-rock musician and composer, best known for his rock operas performed with noted rock musicians guesting. Simon is associated with Breton Celticism, and his most ambitious works are typically on themes linked to Celtic myth and history. Simon has also branched out into film-making. Life Simon was born in Nantes, spending his early years in the moorlands of Goulaine. He left school at 15 to travel the world, supporting himself in a variety of trades. From 1979 to 1992 he lived in Asia. He also travelled twice around the world, financed by photographic work, journalism and musical performances. He also marketed his songs to rock musicians, having some success and building up contacts before he achieved fame. He currently resides near Nantes. Career Early work Aged 20, he wrote his first work, ''The Rebel Child'', which won the Grand Prize of the Society of Artists in France. In 1995, he composed his first musical story, ''Le Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karan Casey
Karan Casey (born 1969) is an Irish folk singer, and a former member of the Irish band Solas. She resides in Cork, Ireland. Early years Casey was born in Ballyduff Lower, Kilmeaden, County Waterford, Ireland. Her family encouraged her to sing in the house, in a church choir and at school. At Waterford Regional Technical College she studied piano then took music at University College Dublin in 1987. Having learned to copy Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing, she performed in a Dublin bistro several nights per week while still a student. At the Royal Irish Academy of Music she studied classical music and sang in a jazz band, then a folk-ballad band, then another jazz band. She also fell under the influence of Dublin folk singer Frank Harte. During this time she also formed her own band, called "Dorothy". Emigration to the USA In 1993, Casey moved to New York City, to study jazz at Long Island University. When she began to frequent Irish traditional sessions in New York, she st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowlands (album)
''Lowlands'' is an album by Irish songwriter, and folk singer Susan McKeown, released in 2000. The tracks on this album present an array of styles, including African, Appalachian, Middle Eastern and Irish. "Lord Baker" is often heard as fragment of a ballad, but here McKeown has included the full story, making this the longest track on the album. The Scots songs "The Dark Haired Girl" was translated into Irish by McKeown. Track listing All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted. # "The Dark Haired Girl" (An Nighean Dudh) (sung in Irish) # "John Coughlin" # "The Hare's Lament" # "Slan agus Beannact/ Goodbye and Farewell" (sung in Irish) # "The Snows They Melt the Soonest" # "Nansi Og Ni Obarlain/ Young Nancy Oberlin" (sung in Irish) # " Lord Baker" ord Bateman. Child Ballad 53# "Dark Horse on the Wind" (Liam Weldon) # "The Lowlands of Holland" # " Bonny Greenwoodside" hild Ballad 20# "To Fair London Town" # "The Moorlough Shore" Personnel * Aidan Brennan – guitar * Mam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan McKeown
Susan McKeown (born February 6, 1967) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, arranger and producer. Early years Susan McKeown was born on February 6, 1967 in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. She briefly attended the Municipal College of Music, Chatham Row, Dublinnow incorporated into the Dublin Institute of Technology)as a teenager before abandoning a potential career in opera order to sing folk and rock. Together with John Doyle, McKeown formed The Chanting House in 1989. Mainly performing as a duo, they toured Europe with Donogh Hennessy and other musicians, playing original songs and traditional tunes. They released a cassette-only album titled ''The Chanting House'' in 1990. Move to New York Upon graduating from University College Dublin, McKeown was awarded a scholarship to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan. In 1990, with a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, she relocated to New York City. Doyle followed and they were soon to join forces with Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lúnasa With The RTÉ Concert Orchestra
''Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra'' is a collaboration album between Irish traditional Celtic music band Lúnasa and the Irish RTÉ Concert Orchestra, recorded in 2012 and released in April 2013 by Lúnasa Records. The collaboration came about after RTÉ contacted contemporary Irish composer Niall Vallely, requesting he composed music for a traditional group, and Vallely in turn requested Lúnasa for a collaboration, bringing the two ensembles together for a fusion between traditional and classical music. After the two groups performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in April 2012, they recorded the album later in the year. The music on the album is Vallely's rearrangement of various suites and tunes, both traditional and modern, that Lúnasa had performed in the past. Music critics have noted the dynamic of the album, where neither the orchestral and traditional elements of the recording outweigh each other. Lúnasa member Trevor Hutchinson is said to pivot the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lá Nua (album)
''Lá Nua'' is an album by Lúnasa. It was released in 2010, and is the band's eighth major release. The album's name means "new day" in Irish. It is the band's first album to be released on their own record label since their debut album, ''Lunasa''. It was recorded in the Cooley Mountains. Earlie Hutchner of American newspaper ''Irish Echo ''The Irish Echo'' is a weekly Irish Americans, Irish-American newspaper based in Manhattan in the United States. In 2007, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Irish businessman and publisher of the ''Andersonstown News'', purchased the paper. Founded in 1 ...'' ranked the album at number 2 on his list of the "Top Ten Traditional Albums of 2010". Track listing # Ryestraw''(The New Day March, Ryestraw, An Old Woman Would)'' # The Raven's Rock''(The Raven's Rock, Ruby's Reel, The Beehive)'' # Tro Breizh''(Tadin-Tinaketa, March des Charbonniers, Ridées Six Temps)'' # Fruitmarket Reels''(Joe Tom's, Supernose, Buntata's Sgadán)'' # Doc Holliday's''(E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story So Far
The Story So Far may refer to: __NOTOC__ Books * ''The Story of Sar'' (book), a 2003 book by Bhawana Somaaya Films * ''The Story So Far'' (2001 film), a film about the band Sick of It All * ''The Story So Far'' (2002 film), a documentary about the band New Found Glory Music Albums * ''The Story So Far'' (Divine album), a 1984 album * ''The Story So Far'' (Bucks Fizz album), a 1988 compilation album * ''The Story So Far'' (Keith Urban album), a 2012 compilation album * ''The Story So Far'' (Mo-dettes album), a 1981 album * ''The Story So Far...'' (Mostly Autumn album), a 2001 live album * ''The Story So Far...'' (Supertramp album), a live album\documentary by Supertramp *'' The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart'', a 2001 greatest hits album * ''The Story So Far'' (Spunge album), a 2002 album * ''The Story So Far...'' (Lúnasa album), a 2008 greatest hits album *''The Story So Far – The Best Of Def Leppard,'' a 2018 compilation album * ''Moby'' (album), titled ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sé (album)
''Sé'' () is an album by Lúnasa. It was released in 2006 on Compass Records, and is the band's sixth major release. The album's name means 'six' in Irish. ''The Living Tradition'' observed " Scottish, Breton and Spanish piping influences joining tunes in and , and plenty of slow jigs and reel A reel is an object around which a length of another material (usually long and flexible) is wound for storage (usually hose are wound around a reel). Generally a reel has a cylindrical core (known as a '' spool'') with flanges around the ends ...s: in short, all the fabulous variety and richness which is Lúnasa's hallmark. Tracks like 'Black River' and 'Boy in the Boat', including Iain Kirkpatrick's great reel 'The Boys of Ballivanich', are familiar from recent concert tours, and all the more welcome for that." Track listing # The Cullybacky Hop''(Mike Hobin's, Emmett's Hedgehog, Dunrobin Castle)'' # Leckan Mór''(Kalyana, Emer Maycock, Above in the Garret, Leckan Mór)'' # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
