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Lúnasa (album)
''Lúnasa'' is an album by Lúnasa that was released twice, first in 1998 on their own label, and again in 2001 on Compass Records. It was the band's first major release. The piping on the album was done by John McSherry, as Cillian Vallely was not part of the group at the time. The first release of the album contained eleven tracks, named for the months in the Irish calendar. 'Lúnasa', the word for August, was omitted. A twelfth track was added for the re-release. Wayne Sheehy of Hothouse Flowers is a fan of the album, once commenting that he "loves" it.Lúnasa > Irish Music Legends - Studio Albums - Band Members - Kevin Crawford - Reviews/ref> Track listing # Eanáir''(Lord Mayo, Gavotte, The Maids Of Mt. Cisco)'' # Feabhra''(An Erc'h War An Enezeg (Snow On The Island), Brenda Stubbert's, Thunderhead)'' # Márta''(The Noonday Feast, The Waterbed, Sully's No. 6)'' # Aibreann''(The Last Pint)'' # Bealtaine''(Hogties, Promenade, Gan Ainm)'' # Meitheamh''(Fleur De Mandragore, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lúnasa (band)
Lúnasa is a traditional Irish music group, named after Lughnasadh, an ancient harvest festival. They tour and perform internationally, and have recorded a number of albums of both traditional and contemporary Irish instrumental music. History Lúnasa was founded in 1997 when Sean Smyth, John McSherry and Steve Cooney teamed up to tour Smyth's solo album, ''The Blue Fiddle''. They called in Mike McGoldrick, a friend of McSherry's, and toured as a four-piece. As the band was taking off, Cooney bowed out. In the meantime, Smyth was touring in Scandinavia with the rhythmical duo Donogh Hennessy and Trevor Hutchinson, and recruited them to join the band."Lúnasa The Merry Sisters of Fate" ''The Irish Music Review'', by Geoff Wallis, reprinted from FRoots Magazine. Calling themselves Lúnasa, they began performing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe. It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide range of hybrids. Description and definition ''Celtic music'' means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the people that identify themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the music of the Celtic nations. Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common. These following melodic practices may be used widely across the different variants of Celtic Music: *It is common for the melodic line to move up and down the primary chords in many Celtic songs. There are a number of possible reasons for this: **''Melodic variation'' can be easily introduced. Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compass Records
Compass Records is an independent record label founded in 1995 by musicians Garry West and Alison Brown that specializes in folk music, folk, bluegrass music, bluegrass, Celtic music, Celtic, jazz, and acoustic music. In 2006, Compass purchased the Green Linnet Records, Green Linnet and Xenophile Records, Xenophile catalogs, and in 2008 the label purchased Mulligan Records. Red House Records, an independent folk and Americana record label founded in 1983 in St. Paul, Minnesota, was purchased by the Compass Records Group in 2017. Roster * Altan (band), Altan * Darol Anger * Russ Barenberg * Bearfoot (American band), Bearfoot * Beoga * Michael Black (musician), Michael Black * Paul Brady * Dale Ann Bradley * Paul Brock * Paul Carrack * Liz Carroll * Beth Nielsen Chapman * The Chapmans * Jeff Coffin * Éamonn Coyne * A. J. Croce * Catie Curtis * Fairport Convention * Kris Drever * Elizabeth and the Catapult * Farmer Not So John * Mike Farris (musician), Mike Farris * Matt Flinner * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otherworld (album)
''Otherworld'' is an album by Lúnasa that was released 1999 on Green Linnet Records. It is the band's second major release. Although the album displays the band’s traditional Celtic sound, it features techniques and styles unusual to the genre, such as occasional double-tracking recording and occasional instances of instruments that differ from Celtic music, such as cello, electric bass and flügelhorn, leading Allmusic to say the album "yields a sound that is unique to the group and yet clearly in touch with tradition". The album has been described as innovative, with ''The Georgia Straight'' citing several tracks' usage of multiple woodwinds as an example. Their first album with Kevin Crawford, and for Green Linnet Records, the album was a major critical success, with critics complimenting the album's unusual sound. Their first album released outside of Ireland, it was also commercially successful for a small band, and became the fastest-selling album in the history of Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westport Matt Molloys
Westport is the name of several communities around the world. Canada *Westport, Nova Scotia * Westport, Ontario **Westport Rideaus, local junior "B" ice hockey team ** Westport/Rideau Lakes Airport *Westport, Newfoundland and Labrador Ireland *Westport, County Mayo ** Westport House ** Westport railway station, Mayo **Westport United F.C., football club **Westport CFE – Carrowbeg College Malaysia *West Port, Malaysia New Zealand *Westport, New Zealand **Westport News **Westport Airport (New Zealand) **Westport Rugby Football Club United Kingdom * Westport, Somerset ** Westport Canal *Westport, Wiltshire United States * Westport, California * Westport, Connecticut ** Westport Country Playhouse, a theatre **Westport (Metro-North station) **Westport Bank and Trust Company, a historic place **Westport Public Library *Westport, Indiana *Westport Township, Dickinson County, Iowa *Westport, Kentucky, in Oldham Co. **Westport High School (Kentucky), in Louisville, named for the Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Calendar
The Irish calendar is the Gregorian calendar as it is in use in Ireland, but also incorporating Irish cultural festivals and views of the division of the seasons, presumably inherited from earlier Celtic calendar traditions. For example, the pre-Christian Celtic year began on 1 November, although in common with the rest of the Western world, the year now begins on 1 January. *Winter (" Geimhreadh") - November, December, January (''Samhain, Nollaig, Eanáir'') *Spring (" Earrach") - February, March, April (Imbolc, then ''Feabhra, Márta, Aibreán'') *Summer (" Samhradh") - May, June, July (''Bealtaine, Meitheamh, Iúil'') *Autumn (" Fómhar" ''Harvest'') - August, September, October (''Lúnasa, Meán Fómhair, Deireadh Fómhair'') In English-language Julian calendars and its derivatives, the months are based on names from Classical mythology, such as the name "February" which derives from the Roman purification rite, Februa. In the Irish calendar, the names of the months in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hothouse Flowers
Hothouse Flowers are an Irish rock band that combine traditional Irish music with influences from soul, gospel, and rock. Formed in 1985 in Dublin, they started as street performers. Their first album, ''People'' (1988), was the most successful debut album in Irish history, reaching No. 1 in Ireland and No. 2 in the UK. After two more albums and extensive touring, the group separated in 1994. Since getting back together in 1998, the band members have been sporadically issuing new songs and touring, but also pursuing solo careers. Career The group first formed in 1985 when Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fiachna Ó Braonáin, who had known each other as children in an Irish-speaking school, Coláiste Eoin in Booterstown, Dublin, began performing as street musicians, also known as buskers, on the streets of Dublin as "The Incomparable Benzini Brothers". They were soon joined by Peter O'Toole and had won a street-entertainer award within a year. They renamed the group "Hothouse Flowers" (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, in Manchester, England) is a folk musician who plays Irish flute, uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran. He also plays other instruments such as acoustic guitar, cittern, and mandolin. Bands McGoldrick has been a member of several influential bands. In 1994 he was awarded the BBC Young Tradition Award, and in 2001 he was given the ''Instrumentalist of the Year'' award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. McGoldrick was a founder-member of the Celtic rock band Toss the Feathers while still at school. He also competed at that time in the Fleadhanna with Dezi Donnelly (fiddle) and John Joe Kelly (bodhrán), whom he had met at local Comhaltas meetings. He made appearances at various local and national festivals and ran whistle/flute workshops at the Cambridge Folk Festival and for Folkworks on their "Flutopia" concert tour. McGoldrick formed the band ''Fluke!'' (later renamed as '' Flook'') with Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen in Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Smyth
Seán Smyth is an Irish fiddle player from Galway. Smyth is an All-Ireland champion on both fiddle and whistle. He is known for his performances with the traditional Irish music group Lúnasa. Early life Smyth was born in Straide, County Mayo. Career Smyth's 1993 solo debut, ''The Blue Fiddle'', was named one of the ten best albums of that year by ''The Irish Echo''."Lúnasa makes U.S. debut" ''Irish Echo'' Online - Arts Smyth toured in Scandinavia in support of the album with guitarist Donogh Hennessey, bassist Trevor Hutchinson. The three, along with low whistle player Michael McGoldrick, and piper John McSherry, toured in Australia in early 1997. ''The Irish Music Review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Hutchinson
Trevor Hutchinson is a Northern Irish bass player and a founding member of Lúnasa. Born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland, he played with numerous bands before Lúnasa, including The Waterboys and Sharon Shannon. Discography ;With Lúnasa * Lúnasa (1999) * Otherworld (1999) * The Merry Sisters of Fate (2001) * Redwood (2003) * The Kinnitty Sessions (2004) * Sé (2006) * Lá Nua ''Lá'' (Irish for "Day"; later known as ''Lá Nua'', Irish for "New Day") was an Irish-language daily newspaper based in Belfast. It was the first daily newspaper in Ireland to be published in Irish. ''Lá Nua'' belonged to the Belfast Media Gr ... (2010) ;With Colleen Raney * Here This is Home (2013) External links His official Lúnasa profile The Waterboys members People from Cookstown Living people Bass guitarists from Northern Ireland Lúnasa (band) members Year of birth missing (living people) Musicians from County Tyrone {{Ireland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Chester
Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage * ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated short about Joe Fortes Music and radio * "Joe" (Inspiral Carpets song) * "Joe" (Red Hot Chili Peppers song) * "Joe", a song by The Cranberries on their album ''To the Faithful Departed'' *"Joe", a song by PJ Harvey on her album '' Dry'' *"Joe", a song by AJR on their album ''OK Orchestra'' * Joe FM (other), any of several radio stations Computing * Joe's Own Editor, a text editor for Unix systems * Joe, an object-oriented Java computing framework based on Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere project Media * Joe (website), a news website for the UK and Ireland * ''Joe'' (magazine), a defunct periodical developed originally for Kenyan youth Places * Joe, North Carolina, United States, a town * Jõe, Saaremaa Parish, Estoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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