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Patrick Clifford (musician)
Patrick Clifford (born in New York City, 1966) is a musician, songwriter, and producer of Irish and folk music. Best known as a key member of Four to the Bar—a "well loved and well respected" mainstay of the 1990s New York Irish music scene—he has also released two solo albums: ''American Wake'' and ''Chance of a Start''. Clifford grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Like many contemporary New York Irish musicians, he received his earliest training from the renowned Martin Mulvihill, (on piano accordion). His primary instrument with Four to the Bar was the bass, but he also added piano, guitar, and accordion to the band's sound, on both stage and recordings. As a songwriter, he wrote two tracks for the band's watershed album, ''Another Son'': * "The Western Shore" and * "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water" (music only). He and guitarist Martin Kelleher are generally credited with the production of both of Four to the Bar's full-length albums; ''Another So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
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Four To The Bar
Four to the Bar was a "well loved and well respected" American band from New York City during the early to mid-1990s. Band history The Early Days: 1991–1992 Four to the Bar was formed in the working-class/immigrant Irish community of Woodside, Queens, New York City, in 1991 The initial lineup was Martin Kelleher (from Cork (city), Cork) on bass guitar, David Yeates (from Dunboyne, Dunboyne, County Meath) on vocals and flute, David Livingstone (from County Monaghan) on mandolin, and Gerry Singleton guitar. That August, Kelleher switched to guitar and the band placed a classified ad for a bass player in the ''Irish Voice'' newspaper. Patrick Clifford (musician), Patrick Clifford (from New York City) answered the ad, was hired, and completed the Kelleher-Yeates-Clifford nucleus that would hold for the remainder of the band's existence. Four to the Bar immediately began to tour regionally. It was during this time that the band gave an opening act for then-rising star Sharon S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craic On The Road
''Craic on the Road: Live at Sam Maguire's'' was the first full-length album by Four to the Bar, released in 1994. Track listing #I'll Tell Me Ma (Traditional) #Waxie's Dargle/The Rare Old Mountain Dew (Traditional) # My Love's in Germany (Traditional) #I Ain't Marching Anymore (Phil Ochs) #The Hills of Connemara (Traditional) #A Taste of the Reel World (Traditional) #The Black Velvet Band/The Wild Rover/The Galway Shawl (Traditional) # The Ferryman (Pete St. John) #Mick Maguire (Traditional) #Muirsheen Durkin (Traditional) #Jenny's and Out! (Traditional) Personnel * David Yeates: Vocals, bodhrán, flute, tin whistle *Martin Kelleher: Vocals, guitar * Patrick Clifford: Bass * Keith O'Neill: Fiddle *Seamus Casey: Djembe, congas, percussion *Tony McQuillan: Accordion Production *Produced by Four to the Bar with Kevin Coleman *Recorded live on June 16, 1994 at Sam Maguire's Pub, Bronx NY, by Boulevard Studios, New Milford NJ *Crew chiefs: Mike Marri, Anthony Cioffi *Assistant r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Kelleher
Four to the Bar was a "well loved and well respected" American band from New York City during the early to mid-1990s. Band history The Early Days: 1991–1992 Four to the Bar was formed in the working-class/immigrant Irish community of Woodside, Queens, New York City, in 1991 The initial lineup was Martin Kelleher (from Cork) on bass guitar, David Yeates (from Dunboyne, County Meath) on vocals and flute, David Livingstone (from County Monaghan) on mandolin, and Gerry Singleton guitar. That August, Kelleher switched to guitar and the band placed a classified ad for a bass player in the ''Irish Voice'' newspaper. Patrick Clifford (from New York City) answered the ad, was hired, and completed the Kelleher-Yeates-Clifford nucleus that would hold for the remainder of the band's existence. Four to the Bar immediately began to tour regionally. It was during this time that the band gave an opening act for then-rising star Sharon Shannon at the Bog in Jamaica Plain, which brought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both. Techniques The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding the guitar, including finger picking, depending on the type of strings used (either nylon or steel), and including strumming with the fingers, or a guitar pick made of bone, horn, plastic, metal, felt, leather, or paper, and melodic flatpicking and finger-picking. The guitarist may also employ various methods for selecting notes and chords, including fingering, thumbing, the barre (a finger lying across many or all strings at a particular fret), and guitar slides, usually made of glass or metal. These left- and right-hand techniques may be intermixed in performance. Notable guitarists Rock, metal, ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Son (album)
''Another Son'' was the second full-length album and final recording by Four to the Bar, released in 1995. The album was a radical departure from their first, 1994's ''Craic on the Road''. The band is listed as producing the album. Engineer Tim Hatfield has also been credited with playing a significant role in the success of the record. Track listing #"The Newry Highwayman" (Traditional) #"Another Son" (Kelleher) #"The Western Shore" ( Clifford) #"Shelli Sullivan's/Passing My Time/Marie Harvey's Delight" (O'Neill) #"NY's for Paddy" ( Yeates) #"Something's Come In" (Kelleher) #"Catch the Wind" (Donovan) #" The World Turned Upside-Down" ( Rosselson) #"The Shores of America" (Kelleher) #" The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water" (W.B. Yeats (lyrics); Clifford (music)) #"Skibbereen" (Traditional) #"Getting Medieval" (Traditional) #"No Matter Where You Go" (Kelleher) Personnel * David Yeates: Vocals, bodhran, flute, tin whistle, percussion *Martin Kelleher: Guitar, bouzouk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music. The four-string bass is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lowest-pitched strings of a guitar (typically E, A, D, and G). It is played primarily with the fingers or thumb, or with a pick. To be heard at normal performance volumes, electric basses require external amplification. Terminology According to the ''New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', an "Electric bass guitar sa Guitar, usually with four heavy strings tuned E1'–A1'–D2–G2." It also defines ''bass'' as "Bass (iv). A contraction of Double bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Accordion
A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ. Its acoustic mechanism is more that of an organ than a piano, as they are both aerophones, but the term "piano accordion"—coined by Guido Deiro in 1910—has remained the popular name. It may be equipped with any of the available systems for the left-hand manual. In comparison with a piano keyboard, the keys are more rounded, smaller, and lighter to the touch. These go vertically down the side, pointing inward, toward the bellows, making them accessible to only one hand while handling the accordion.Felt or rubber is placed under the piano keys to control touch and key noise: it is also used on the ''pallets'' to silence notes not sounded by preventing air flow. This material eventually wears with use, resulting in a clacking noise, so has to be replaced to quieten the mechanism. The bass piano accordion is a variation of a piano accordion without bass buttons, with the piano key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Mulvihill
Martin Mulvihill (born in Ballygoughlin, County Limerick, Ireland in 1923; died 21 July 1987) was an Irish traditional musician, composer, teacher, and author. He composed roughly 25 tunes in the Irish traditional style. Although his mother Brigid Flynn played the concertina and fiddle, Martin, the youngest of her ten children, was the only one to become a musician. He began his study of music at the age of nine. From a violin player in the neighboring town of Glin, he learned the rudiments of the fiddle and how to read and write music; from his mother he learned the Irish traditional style. His early repertoire was learned both from written sources such as the Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music, Ker, and O'Neill's 1001, and from local musicians. In 1940 at age 17, he joined the Irish Army. After his discharge, he played with Meade's Dance Band in Glin. In 1951 he emigrated to Northampton, England; there he married Olive McEvoy from County Offaly, with whom he had h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Heights, Manhattan
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the uppermost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Washington Heights is bordered by Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street, by Harlem to the south along 155th Street, by the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to the east, and by the Hudson River to the west. Washington Heights, which before the 20th century was sparsely populated by luxurious mansions and single-family homes, rapidly developed during the early 1900s as it became connected to the rest of Manhattan via the A, C, and 1 subway lines. Beginning as a middle-class neighborhood with many Irish and Eastern European immigrants, the neighborhood has at various points been home to communities of German Jews, Greek Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chance Of A Start
''Chance of a Start'' is the second studio album by American Irish folk musician Patrick Clifford, released in 2012. It was named by the Irish Voice newspaper as one of the eight best Irish music albums of 2012.Farragher, Mike (25 December 2012)"2012 was a great year for Irish music - a rundown from Luka Bloom to Patrick Clifford" ''Irish Voice.'' Retrieved 28 December 2012. As on ''American Wake,'' the album uses instrumentation typical of the American folk music idiom (such as harmonica, piano, bass, and organ), to arrange six notable twentieth-century Irish folk standards and four original songs. Clifford described the resulting sound as "Irish at its heart with an American manifestation." Unlike ''American Wake'', ''Chance of a Start'' contains no instrumental tracks. David Yeates and Martin Kelleher provide backing vocals on numerous tracks, the first published recordings of Four to the Bar members' collaboration since the band's 1995 release, ''Another Son.'' Songs The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Wake (album)
''American Wake'' is the first full-length solo album by Patrick Clifford, released in 2010. The title refers to a gathering in an Irish home the night before a family member emigrated to America, in which friends and family would say goodbye to the emigrant for what was probably the last time. The album's production marks a significant change from Clifford's work as a member of Four to the Bar. While the repertoire is largely drawn from Irish folk music, the arrangement and production rely less on traditional Irish instruments (such as fiddle, tin whistle, and flute), and more on instrumentation from the American folk music idiom (such as harmonica, piano, and organ). The cover artwork features an image of Clifford as a child with family members, on a boat approaching the Statue of Liberty. Content "The Narrowback," "Paddy Yank's Blues," and "The Golden Door" are a suite of related original compositions that comprise a framework for the album. The same melodic theme appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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