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Steve Cooney
Stephen Cooney is an Australian-Irish musician. Early life Cooney was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he learned to play the didgeridoo, and from the age of seventeen he played in a number of rock bands. He is of Irish ancestry. Career Cooney moved to Ireland in the early 1980s, and since then he played, noticeably the guitar, over 60 albums with Irish artists, such as the Irish band Altan, The Chieftains, Clannad and Andy Irvine. He also composes his own material and is a producer/arranger of traditional music. In 2019 he recorded and published at Claddagh Records the album ''Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for Solo Guitar''. Personal life Cooney was married to Sinéad O'Connor from 2010 to 2011. Selected discography ;With Franciscus Henri * '' Lord of the Dance'' (1969) ;With Mándu * ''To the Shores of His Heaven'' (1974) ;With Little River Band * ''Little River Band'' (1975) ;With Captain Rock * ''Buried Treasure'' (1975) ;W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Of The Dance (Franciscus Henri Album)
Lord of the Dance may refer to: Personalities * Nataraja, Shiva in his dancing posture * Lord of the Dance, a title given to Jesus Christ in some musical adaptations * Rudolf Nureyev, ballet star, nicknamed Lord of the Dance Literature * ''Lord of the Dance'' (novel), a 1984 novel by Father Andrew Greeley Music * "Lord of the Dance" (hymn), a hymn written by Sydney Carter in 1963 ** "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day", a traditional song that the "Lord of the Dance" hymn is based on * ''Lord of the Dance'' (Franciscus Henri album) (1976) * ''Lord of the Dance'' (musical), an Irish musical and dance production ** ''Lord of the Dance'', an album composed by Ronan Hardiman for the above production ** A nickname for Michael Flatley, star of the above production * "Lord of the Dance", a song by Steven Curtis Chapman from the album '' Signs of Life'' * "Lord of the Dance", a song by Chris Clark from the album '' Clarence Park'' See also * "Lard of the Dance", a 1998 episode of ... [...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] |
Island Angel
''Island Angel'' is the fourth studio album by Altan, released in 1993 on the Green Linnet label. In 1995, '' Q'' included ''Island Angel'' in its publication "In Our Lifetime: Q's 100 Best Albums 1986–94", a list compiled to celebrate its 100th issue. It was also the final album to feature founding member Frankie Kennedy who died a year after its release. Track listing All arrangements are by Altan. # "Tommy Peoples/The Windmill/Fintan McManus's" – 3:14 # "Bríd Óg Ní Mháille" – 5:00 # "Fermanagh Highland/Donegal Highland/John Doherty's/King George IV" – 4:06 # "An Mhaighdean Mhara" – 2:52 # "Andy de Jarlis/Ingonish/Mrs. McGhee" – 3:34 # "Humours of Andytown/Kylebrack Rambler/The Gladstone" – 3:15 # " Dúlamán" – 3:42 # "Mazurka" – 2:42 # "The Jug of Punch" – 3:29 # "Glory Reel/The Heathery Cruach" – 2:54 # "An Cailín Gaelach" – 3:24 # "Drumnagarry/Pirrie Wirrie/Big John's" – 3:29 # "Aingeal an Oileáin (Island Angel)" – 3:40 All titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Shannon
Sharon Shannon (born 8 June 1968) is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 debut album, '' Sharon Shannon,'' was the best-selling album of traditional Irish music ever released in Ireland. Beginning with Irish folk music, her work demonstrates a wide-ranging number of musical influences. She won the lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Meteor Awards. Early life Shannon was born in Ruan, County Clare. At eight years old, she began performing with Disirt Tola, a local band, with which she toured the United States at the age of fourteen. Shannon also worked as a competitive show jumper, but gave it up at the age of sixteen to focus on her music. She similarly abandoned studying at University College Cork. In the mid-1980s, Shannon studied the accordion with Karen Tweed and the fiddle with Frank Custy, and performed with the band Arcady, of which she was a foundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Sands (Irish Folk Singer)
Tommy Sands (born 19 December 1945) is a Northern Irish folk singer, songwriter, radio broadcaster, and political activist. He performs with his three siblings as '' The Sands Family''; solo as ''Tommy Sands''; and with his son and daughter as ''Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands''. Tommy was the prime songwriter for The Sands Family, one of Ireland's most influential folk groups of the 1960s and '70s. Tommy Sands has hosted ''Country Céilí'', a radio show on ''Downtown Radio'' in Newtownards since 1976. His song "There Were Roses" has been described as "... certainly one of the best songs ever written about the " Irish Problem"".Dna Users, Biography of Tommy Sands In May 2002 he received an |
Gerry O'Connor (banjo Player)
Gerry O'Connor (born 21 July 1960 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a traditional tenor banjo player. As Earl Hitchener (music critic for the ''Wall Street Journal'') said, Gerry O'Connor can be considered at the moment "the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music". He also plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar and tenor guitar. O'Connor released four solo albums and his third one, titled ''No Place Like Home'' was named by Irish Times as Number 1 Traditional/Folk album of the year in 2004. After the sudden death of banjo player Barney McKenna on 5 April 2012, he entered The Dubliners to complete the planned tour, until the final shows at Vicar Street in Dublin, on 28/29/30 December. Barney McKenna himself said, about Gerry O'Connor: "He's my best pupil ever". Together with Eamonn Campbell, Patsy Watchorn and Seán Cannon, Gerry O'Connor plans to keep on touring in 2013 as The Dublin Legends. In addition to his solo performances and recordings, O'Connor is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago (album)
''Santiago'' is an album by The Chieftains, released through RCA Records in 1996. The album is dedicated to traditional music of Galicia, the region in the northwest of Spain, and also adaptation of Galician emigrants' musical folklore in Latin American music, for example, in the music of Mexico and Cuba. As Paddy Moloney noted in the CD's booklet, Galicia is "the world's most undiscovered Celtic country". The album features collaborations with Carlos Núñez, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder, Eliot Fisk, Richard Egües, Pancho Amat, Kepa Junkera, Júlio Pereira, (among others). In 1997, the album earned the group the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Track listing Personnel * Derek Bell - harp, tiompán, harpsichord *Martin Fay - fiddle * Seán Keane - fiddle *Kevin Conneff - bodhrán, vocals *Matt Molloy - flute *Paddy Moloney - uilleann pipes, tin whistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Black Veil (album)
''The Long Black Veil'' is an album by the traditional Irish folk band The Chieftains. Released in 1995, it is one of the most popular and best-selling albums by the band. It reached number 17 in the album charts. The band teamed up with well-known musicians such as Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. The album went gold in the U.S. and Australia, and Double-Platinum in Ireland. One of the tracks, "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?", sung and written by Van Morrison, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 1996. Credited collaborators include Marianne Faithfull, Mark Knopfler, Mick Jagger, Ry Cooder, Sinéad O'Connor, Sting, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Van Morrison and Arty McGlynn. The Tennessee Waltz/Mazurka was recorded at Frank Zappa's studio not long before he died. There is video evidence (available as a bootleg called 'Salad Party') that additional material was recorded during this session, though The Chieftains have not rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Chieftains Celebration
''A Chieftains Celebration'' is an album by the Irish folk music group, The Chieftains. The title derives from the "celebration" of the millennium of the city of Dublin, Ireland. Track listing # "Coolin Medley" – 4:56 # "O'Mahoney's Frolics" – 3:02 # "Galicia" – 4:38 # " Here's a Health to the Company" – 3:01 # "Planxty Brown/The William Davis's/Lady Wrixon" – 4:46 # "Boffyflow and Spike" – 2:52 # "The Strayaway Child" – 4:55 # "The Iron Man" – 3:40 # "The Wexford Carol" – 3:23 # "Gaftaí Baile Buí" – 4:13 # "Millennium Celtic Suite" – 7:16 - recorded live at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin The Gaiety Theatre is a theatre on South King Street in Dublin, Ireland, off Grafton Street and close to St. Stephen's Green. It specialises in operatic and musical productions, with occasional dramatic shows. History In April 1871, the broth ... in July 1988 References 1989 albums The Chieftains albums [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Small
Judith Margaret Small is a retired judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia and former folk singer. Small was known for her feminist, often patriotic, and political songs, usually following a traditional theme. She produced twelve albums, hundreds of songs and has been described as being among the most popular political singers in Australia, with many such songs based on topical factual events like the Montreal Massacre. She enjoys singing about real people and issues, stating "If an audience comes away thinking about issues it is a worthwhile performance". She toured the country and internationally, playing primarily in clubs and pubs, and at various conventions. Biography Judy Small, now based in Melbourne was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. She moved to Sydney in 1972, studying psychology and began her career as a singer and songwriter in the late 1970s, inspired by the folk boom of the 1960s and describing her influences as such folk singers as Joan Baez, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontline (album)
''Frontline'' is the fourth studio album by the Australian folk-rock group Redgum. It was the last album that John Schumann performed on before he left the group at the end of 1985.That Striped Sunlight Sound bloFrontline review/ref> Track listing Personnel The Band * Michael Atkinson – vocals, guitar * Hugh McDonald – acoustic and electric guitars, violin, vocals * John Schumann – vocals, acoustic guitar * Verity Truman – saxophone, flute, vocals * Stephen Cooney - bass, didgeridoo, guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals * Brian Czempinski - drums * Michael Spicer - piano, keyboards Guests * Mick O'Connor - Hammond organ * Michael Harris - violin * Dobe Newton - lagerphone * Wilbur Wilde - saxophone * Bill Harrower - saxophone, alto flute * Trevor Lucas - guitar * Greg Sheehan - percussion * Tim Fetters - trumpet Technical * Trevor Lucas - producer * Tony Buettel - engineer * Richmond Recorders - recording studio * Music Farm Studios - mixing studio Design * A&L Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
