1294CD Rough Guide to … Irish Music (3rd edn.)

1294CD Rough Guide to Irish Music.

The music of Ireland is a tradition that is alive and kicking. Right the way across the country music fills every corner of life – warm pubs bubble with musicians taking part in impromptu seisúns and rousing late-night sing-songs are commonplace.

This album features musicians old and new, from Waterford to Donegal and Kerry to Belfast.

It includes a second, bonus CD ‘Six Days In Down’ on which John McSherry, the masterful uilleann piper, and fiddle virtuoso Dónal O’Connor join forces with the globetrotting slide guitarist Bob Brozman.

Track listing:

• The Unwanted: The Duke Of Leinster/Gardiner’s/John Stenson’s #2
• Solas: A Sailor’s Life
• Altan: Tommy Potts’ Slip Jig
• Karan Casey and John Doyle: The Bay of Biscay
• Brendan Mulholland: The King of the Pipers/Behind the Haystack/The Maid on the Green
• Jack Talty and Cormac Begley: Paddy Cronin’s/If I Had a Wife
• Andy Irvine: The Close Shave/East At Glendart
• Brock McGuire Band: Moving Cloud
• Iarla Ó Lionáird: The Heart of the World
• Sharon Shannon: Neckbelly
• Fidil: Kiss the Maid behind the Byre/Tá Do Mhargadh Déanta
• Gráinne Holland: Dónal na Gréine
• Dermot Byrne And Floriane Blancke: Sore Point
• Hugh Healy and Michael ‘Blackie’ O’Connell: The Hut Of Staten Island/The Deil Among The Tailors
• Brian Finnegan: Belfast: Back to Belfast/Anne Lacey/Eroticon VI
• At First Light: The Pipers Of Roguery
• T With The Maggies: Wedding Dress

Disc 2 – ‘Six Days in Down’

• Hardiman The Fiddler
• Brelydian
• A Mháire Bruineall
• Portaferry Swing
• Róise Na BhFonn – Tuneful Rose
• Pota Mór Fataí
• The Slide From Grace
• Bean An Fhir Ruaidh – The Red Haired Man’s Wife
• Beer Belly Dancing
• The Beauty Spot
• Cailleach A Shúsa – The Hag In The Blanket