''Harvest Storm'' is the third studio album by Altan, released in April 1992 on the Green Linnet label.

Track listing

All titles arranged by Altan. # "Pretty Peg/New Ships A-Sailing/The Bird's Nest/The Man From Bundoran" (reels) – 3:37 # "Dónal Agus Mórag/The New-Rigged Ship" (song and reel) – 4:27 # "King of the Pipers" (jig) – 3:08 # "Séamus O'Shanahan's/Walking in Liffey Street" (jigs) – 2:33 # "Mo Choill" (song) – 4:10 # "The Snowy Path" (slip jig) – 2:12 # "Drowsy Maggie/Rakish Paddy/Harvest Storm" (reels) – 2:57 # "Sí Do Mhaimeo Í" (song) – 2:50 # "McFarley's/Mill Na Máidí" (reels) – 2:25 # "The Rosses Highlands" (highlands) – 2:58 # "A Nobleman's Wedding" (song) – 6:35 # "Bog An Lochain/Margaree Reel/The Humours of Westport" (strathspey and reels) – 3:34 # "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (slow air and reel) – 4:20 All titles are traditional except the following: *"Séamus O'Shanahan's/Walking in Liffey Street" composed by Paul O'Shaughnessy *"The Snowy Path" composed by Mark Kelly *"Harvest Storm" composed by

Frankie Kennedy Frankie Kennedy (30 September 1955 – 19 September 1994) was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular ''Frankie Ken ...

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Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (; born 26 July 1959) is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish folk music band Altan, which she co-founded with her late husband Frankie Kennedy in 1987. Today, Mairéad is recognised as a leading exponent ...

"Mo Choill" ("My Love") is a song from a lady called "Rose of the songs" who had so many songs that she was known all over Ireland by a lot of people. It's a sad song about a man who goes off to sea and leaves his beloved one behind.

Live recordings

A live recording of the medley "Drowsie Maggie" performed by Altan in 1999 at the Cambridge Folk Festival is available on the ''Cambridge Folk Festival - A Celebration of Roots Music 1998-99'' 1-CD collective album. Released in 2000, this compilation includes a total of 17 live recordings from the Cambridge Folk Festivals 1998 & 1999.mainlynorfolk.info > Cool As Folk
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Personnel

Altan

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Fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

, whistle, backing vocals *Ciarán Tourish – Fiddle, whistle, backing vocals *Paul O'Shaughnessy – Fiddle *Ciarán Curran – Bouzouki, bouzouki-

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*Mark Kelly – Guitar, backing vocals *

Dáithí Sproule Dáithí Sproule (born 23 May 1950) is a guitarist and singer of traditional Irish music. He is the grandson of Frank Carney and uncle of singer Claire Sproule. Biography Born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, at the age of 18 he moved t ...

– Guitar on "The Rosses Highlands", backing vocals

Guest musicians

*Frieda Gray –

Dancing Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...

on "Mill na Máidí" *Tommy Hayes – Bodhrán, bass bodhrán,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

, jaw harp * Dónal Lunny –

Keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

, bass bodhrán on "Dónal Agus Mórag" * Liam Ó Maonlaí –

Didgeridoo The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...

on "Sí Do Mhaimeo Í"

Production

*P.J. Curtis – Producer *Brian Masterson – Engineer *Aidan McGovern – Assistant Engineer *Ciaran Byrne – Assistant Engineer *Greenberg Kingsley – Design * Ross Wilson – Artwork *Colm Henry – Photography

References

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