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Tag Archives: Celtic music
Laura Risk and Jacqueline Schwab’s Celtic Dialogue
Dynamic nuances, crisp, clear tone and appropriately stylistic bowing characterize Laura Risk’s fiddle lines on her newest recording, Celtic Dialogue. Risk’s pure and gentle touch on the fiddle makes it sound like she is caressing the music from her instrument rather … Continue reading
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Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill, Triona Ni Dhomhnaill and Donal Lunny’s Idir an Da Sholas (Between the Two Lights)
Brendan Foreman penned this review. One half of this duo of sisters is actually quite prominent in the world of Irish traditional music. Triona Dhomhnaill was a founding member of three of the most important modern-day Celtic musical groups: the Bothy … Continue reading
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A Nightnoise Retrospective
Nightnoise were a musical quartet whose career spanned the better part of two decades. Although three quarters of the band came from Ireland, the group was based in Portland, Oregon. Despite backgrounds in traditional Irish music, classical, and jazz, the … Continue reading
Nightnoise’s The White Horse Sessions
I spent years looking for this album after Reynard, a bandmate of mine in Mouse in the Cupboard, said it was an album that I should hear. (He heard it on some late-night Celtic radio programme, but couldn’t find a … Continue reading
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Tannahill Weavers’ Epona
Chuck Lipsig penned this review. The Tannahill Weavers have a new CD out named Epona. That’s really all anyone needs to know. But it doesn’t make a good review, does it? How about this then? In the Tannahills’ quarter-century history, this is … Continue reading
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Tannahill Weavers’ Alchemy
Chuck Lipsig penned this review. Twenty-seven years, thirteen original albums, and two compilations: That’s the running total for The Tannahill Weavers with their new CD, Alchemy. With the present line-up of Roy Gullane (Vocals, guitar), John Martin (Vocals, fiddle), Duncan Nicholson … Continue reading
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Tannahill Weavers’ Live & in SessIon
Paul Brandon penned this review. It’s Midwinter here in Brisbane, which means in reality, it’s still generally a good deal warmer than in Britain. I’m sitting here, my Winnie the Pooh cup full to spilling with steaming coffee (Mandehling single origin … Continue reading
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Katie McNally Trio’s The Boston States
For decades, expatriate Cape Breton Islanders lived and worked in Boston because there were few jobs on the Nova Scotia island they called home. Many of them, in addition to working factory jobs of one kind and another, were excellent … Continue reading
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Paul Cranford and Friends’ The Lighthouse
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review for Folk Tales. Paul Cranford is a lighthouse keeper, and that is where the title for this disc came from. It is filled with enchanting Cape Breton Fiddle Music. There are a total of … Continue reading
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The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc’s Deliverance
Deliverance, the second release by The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, brims with life, energy, a lot of joy and a little bit of sorrow, all poured out in the delightful strains of fiddle music from three different but related traditions. The … Continue reading
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