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Tag Archives: Celtic music
Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas’s Fire & Grace
We get the loveliest things here at Green Man, often without any clue that they are coming! Fire & Grace, the latest CD from Alasdair Fraser, who’s perhaps the best Scottish fiddler ever, arrived in the post this week. Fraser … Continue reading
The Kathryn Tickell Band’s Air Dancing
In a far distant past (1986) I saw the then very young Kathryn Tickell charm an audience at Sidmouth Folk Festival with her Northumbrian pipes and her fiddle. She was named as one of the bright hopes for the future … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, English folk music
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Phil Cunningham, Kevin Burke, Susan McKeown, Aidan Brennan, Seamus Egan, and Solas’ Memorial Concert for Johnny Cunningham
Phil Cunningham sat alone on the large stage, eyes closed, as he wrung a slow, sad air from his custom Borsini accordion in memory of his brother Johnny. The Faerieworlds Festival crowd of several hundred, which moments before had been … Continue reading
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Steve Reel’s Celtic Knights and The Unfortunate Rakes’ Rakes Alive!
This review was contributed by Mike Stiles. These two CDs benchmark the glorious growth of the guitar in Celtic music. I encourage those readers who haven’t yet checked out the Celtic scene to do so by bouncing off some familiar … Continue reading
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Jason Whelan’s Blur, The Tim Malloys’ Wrecked, and various artists’ Shite ‘n’ Onions, Volume 1
Here at GMR we like the raucous music that builds on the Anglo-Celtic traditions; from the Oysterband to the Pogues, we’re there. And this omnibus review finds me with a nice collection of raucous artists, from St. John’s Newfoundland to … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, rock and roll
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Various artists’ A’ The Bairns ‘O’ Adam: Hamish Henderson Tribute
With a tribute album, if you are not familiar with the artist as a person or what he has done, then looking at the album cover in a record store is about as much use to you as a one … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Scottish music
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Wicked Tinkers’ Banger for Breakfast
Recently I attended a Wicked Tinkers show at the Portland Scottish Highland Games. As I said in my review of the show, “The Wicked Tinkers are crazy in the way that only very, very good performers can be, with a … Continue reading
Wicked Tinkers at the Portland Scottish Highland Games
Hot sun, cold beer, bagpipes, drums, didgeridoos, and four wildly funny, talented, sexy men in kilts … OK, maybe that’s not your idea of Heaven, but I’ve seen the Wicked Tinkers so I know better. The Tinkers are: award-winning piper … Continue reading
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Kyle MacNeil, Liz Carroll, Tove de Fries, North River Centre for the Performing Arts, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia – Oct. 13, 2002
I wish I could show you video and play you a recording of this magical night, dubbed Fiddle Heaven in the Celtic Colours International Festival program. It would make anyone a fan of fiddle music, to hear this auditory ambrosia; … Continue reading
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Keympa’s Reviralo and Cucanandy’s Contented Minds
Celtic music can be found in some surprising places. Spain, for instance, and North Carolina. Spain’s Galicia region is home to some curiously dislocated vestiges of Celtic culture and music. From Llan de Cubel, which hews pretty closely to the … Continue reading
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