Celtic Music: Dervish

Following the release of Harmony Hill, Dervish experienced a rapidly growing demand and they toured extensively, not releasing their next album, Playing with Fire, until 1994. The album reached number one one the Irish Folk Music and World/Roots music charts and stayed there for several months.

Dervish released their two albums in the United States and toured the country with appearances at such venues as Wolf Trap outside Washington, DC, the Milwaukee Irish Festival and City Stages in Birmingham, AL. More nominations and awards followed.

In 1996 Dervish won the Hot Press Folk Album of the year award with the release of At the End of the Day. They also toured to Hong Kong and Malaysia, further broadening their appeal.

In 1997, just hours before a performance at Palma de Majorca's Theater Principal, the group decided to record the show. Their performance was so good that it didn't require much work in the studio to turn it into a two-disc album, Live in Palma, that was again highly acclaimed. Also that year the readers of Irish Music Magazine voted Dervish Best Overall Trad/Folk Band of the Year.

During extensive touring in 1998, Shane McAleer left the band and was replaced by Sligo fiddler and guitar player Séamus O'Dowd. Toward the end of the year, All Ireland Fiddle Champion Tom Morrow joined the band. In 1999 the group went into the studio and recorded Midsummer's Night which was named Irish Trad Album of the Year by several publications.

Dervish released the compilation album Decade in 2001. This was followed in 2003 by Spirit which, while rooted firmly in the Irish tradition, had a more contemporary feel. In early 2006 Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern invited Dervish to accompany a trade mission to China. Later in the year, they released the compilation album A Healing Heart, showing a softer side to the group. Their latest release is 2007's Travelling Show which features Cathy Jordan's cover of Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves."

Harmony Hill
1. Apples in Winter
2. Hills of Greenmore
3. Fields of Milltown
4. Bellaghy Fair
5. The Ploughman
6. The Green Mountain
7. Welcome Poor Paddy
8. Jig C Jig
9. The Fair Maid
10. Virginia Set
11. A Stor Mo Chroi
12. Slides and Reels

from CD Baby - Harmony Hill

Playing with Fire
1. Buckley's Fancy
2. Molly And Johnny
3. Last Nights Fun
4. Wheels Of The World
5. Maire Mor
6. I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her
7. The Hungry Rock
8. Cailin Rua
9. Ash Plant Set
10. Peigin Mo Chroi
11. The Game Of Love
12. Willie Lennox
13. Let Down The Blade

from CD Baby - Playing with Fire

At The End of the Day
1. Touching Cloth
2. Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn
3. Jim Coleman's Set
4. An Spailpin Fanach
5. Packie Duignan's
6. Lone Shanakyle
7. Drag Her Round The Road
8. Peata Beag
9. Trip To Sligo
10. Sheila Nee Iyer
11. Kilavill Set
12. I Courted A Wee Girl
13. Josefin's Waltz
14. Eileen McMahon

from CD Baby - At the End of the Day

Live in Palma
Disc 1:
1. Packie Duigan's
2. Spailpin Fanach
3. Slow Reels
4. Sheila Nee Iyer
5. The Trip To Sligo
6. The Hungry Rock
7. Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn
8. Molly and Johnny
9. The Green Mountain

Disc 2:
1. I Courted A Wee Girl/Josefin's Waltz
2. Drag Her Round The Road
3. Maire Mhor
4. I Buried Me Wife and Danced on Top of Her
5. Hills Of Greanmore
6. Worlds End
7. Peata Beag
8. Pheigin Mo Chroi
9. Jim Coleman's
10. Happy Birthday to Felip
11. Edward by Lough Eirn's Shore
12. Killavil Jigs
13. Allellu Na Gamhna

from CD Baby - Live in Palma

Midsummer's Night
1. Midsummer's Night
2. Sean Bhain
3. Tenpenny Bit
4. Sweet Viledee
5. Palmer's Gate
6. Erin Gra mo Chroi
7. Lark on the Strand
8. Cairns Hill
9. Maid Father's Garden
10. Abbeyfeale Set
11. An T-Uil
12. Bold Doherty
13. Out on the Road
14. Red Haired Mary

from CD Baby - Midsummer's Night

Decade
1. The Kilavill Set
2. Molly and Johnny
3. The Lark in the Strand
4. The Hills of Greanmore
5. The Worlds End
6. Apples in Winter
7. Peigin mo Chroi
8. Josefins Waltz
9. An Spailpin Fanach
10. The Hungry Rock
11. Sweet Viledee
12. Palmer's Gate
13. Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn
14. Jim Colemans

from CD Baby - Decade

Spirit
1. John Blessings
2. An Rógaire Dubh/Na Ceannabháin Bhána/Páidín O Raifeartaí
3. Father Jack
4. The Fair-Haired Boy
5. Siesta Set
6. The Soldier Laddie
7. Beauties of Autumn
8. The Lag's Song
9. Boots of Spanish Leather
10. O'Raghailligh's Grave
11. Swallows Tail
12. The Cocks Are Crowing
13. Whelans (Jigs) Trounsdells Cross

from CD Baby - Spirit

A Healing Heart
Released in 2005.
1. I courted a wee girl/Josefins Waltz
2. A stor mo croi
3. Boots of spanish leather
4. Willie Lennon
5. Erin Gra mo Chroi
6. Ar Eireinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi
7. The fairhaired boy
8. Lone Shanakyle
9. I hope you still dance
10. Josefins Waltz (Reprise)

from CD Baby - A Healing Heart

Traveling Show
1. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
2.The Coolea Jigs
3. My Bride and I
4. The Cat Went A-Hunting
5. The Bealtine Set
6. Grainne
7. Heading Home
8. The Queen and The Soldier
9. The Masters Return
10. Lord Levett
11. The Jolly Tinker
12. Crucan Na bPaiste

from CD Baby - Traveling Show