''Celtic Solstice'' is an album by
Paul Winter, released in 1999 through the
record label
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Living Music.
In
2000
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, the album earned him a
Grammy Award
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for
Best New Age Album
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.
Track listing
# "Triumph" (Halley, Spillane, Winter) – 7:06
# "
Golden Apples of the Sun" (
W. B. Yeats
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,
Travis Edmonson) – 6:25
# "Hollow Hills" (Spillane) – 1:55
# "O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick" (traditional) – 4:36
# "Dawnwalker" (Halley, Spillane) – 6:43
# "My Fair and Faithful Love/Blarney Pilgram" (Maclean, traditional) – 5:23
# "Sweet Comeraghs" (Faoli·in) – 3:55
# "After the Fleadh/Running Through the Woods With Keetu" (Fahy, Madden) – 6:45
# "The Minister's Adieu" (Thomas) – 2:09
# "Farewell to Govan" (Cunningham) – 2:58
# "Golden Apples of the Sun (Reprise)" – 7:06
# "Dawnwalker (Reprise)" (Halley, Spillane) – 2:32
Personnel
* Paul Winter – soprano saxophone
*
Joanie Madden – flute and whistle
*
Davy Spillane
Davy Spillane (born 1959 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician, songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.
Biography Irish music
At the age of 12, Spillane started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him an ...
–
uilleann pipes
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*
Jerry O'Sullivan – uilleann pipes
*
Paul Halley
Paul Halley (born 1952 in Romford, England) is a keyboardist, vocalist and composer. He is perhaps best known as being a member of and composer for the Paul Winter Consort.
Biography
Paul Halley was born in England in 1952. His father was a ...
–
pipe organ and piano
*
Eileen Ivers
Eileen Ivers (born July 13, 1965) is an American fiddler.
Ivers was born in New York City of Irish-born parents, grew up in the Bronx and attended St. Barnabas High School. She spent summers in Ireland and took up the fiddle at the age of n ...
– fiddle
*
Carol Thompson
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–
Celtic harp
The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as in Irish, in Scottish Gaelic, in Breton and in Welsh. In Ireland and Scotland, it was a wire-strung instrument requiring grea ...
and Welsh
triple harp
The triple harp is a type of multi-course harp employing three parallel rows of strings instead of the more common single row. One common version is the Welsh triple harp (Welsh: ''telyn deires''), used today mainly among players of traditional W ...
*
Zan McLoed – guitar
*
Bakithi Kumalo
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Biography and ...
– bass
*
Austin McGrath –
bodhrán
The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or oth ...
*
Jamey Haddad
Jamey George Haddad (born July 2, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American percussionist who works primarily in the fields of jazz and world music and specializes in hand drums.
Biography
Haddad is of Lebanese ancestry. From the age of four, he b ...
– percussion
*
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 si ...
– vocals
See also
*
Celtic music in the United States
Irish, Scottish and Welsh music have long been a major part of American music, at least as far back as the 18th century. Beginning in the 1960s, performers like the Clancy Brothers became stars in the Irish music scene, which dates back to at l ...
*
Folk music of Ireland
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there we ...
References
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1999 albums
Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
Paul Winter albums