''Leahy'' is an album by Canadian
folk music
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group
Leahy
Leahy is a Canadian folk music group. The eight band members, all from the Leahy family of 11 siblings, are from Lakefield, Ontario and have been touring Canada and internationally since the early 1980s, when they were known as The Leahy Family ...
. It was released by
Virgin Records
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in 1996. The album peaked at number 1 on the ''
RPM
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Standards
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'' Country Albums chart in July 1997.
Track listing
#"B Minor" (Traditional) – 3:55
#"Cape Breton Medley" (R. Cooper, Wiley Hunter, Jr., Traditional) – 5:11
#"McBrides" (
Dónal Lunny
Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays left-handed guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozai ...
,
Declan Sinnott
Declan Sinnott (born 29 July 1950) is an Irish musician and record producer.
Originally from Wexford town, where his father was an optician and jeweller on Main Street, he came to Dublin in the late 1960s. Around 1970 he was a member of the poe ...
) – 4:15
#"The French" (Traditional) – 4:39
#"The Call to Dance" (
Gordon Duncan
Gordon Duncan (14 May 1964 – 14 December 2005) was a Scottish bagpiper, low whistle player and composer, born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
Early life
Duncan was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire on 14 May 1964. His parents were tenant farmer and ...
, Howie MacDonald) – 4:05
#"Alabama" (G. Cahn, Ned Landry, J. Yeffen) – 3:40
#"Don Messer Medley" (
Don Messer
Donald Charles Frederick Messer (May 9, 1909 – March 26, 1973) was a Canadian musician, band leader, radio broadcaster, and defining icon of folk music during the 1960s. His CBC Television series '' Don Messer’s Jubilee'' (1959–69) feature ...
, Traditional) – 3:05
#"
Csárdás
Csárdás (, ; ), often seen as Czárdás, is a traditional Hungarian folk dance, the name derived from ' (old Hungarian term for roadside tavern and restaurant). It originated in Hungary and was popularized by bands in Hungary and neighboring l ...
" (Traditional) – 4:04
#"Colm Quigley" (Donnell Leahy, Traditional) – 6:02
#"The Coulin" (Traditional) – 4:44
Chart performance
References
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1996 albums
Leahy albums
Virgin Records albums