Maggie's Music: Sue Richards

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Hazel Grove - MM211
Sue does it again with this stunning follow-up to her award-winning Morning Aire. Her new album creates richly textured chamber-folk arrangements and unusual partnerships. Guest musicians include Scottish fiddler Calum MacKinnon, All-Ireland button accordion champion Billy McComiskey, early music players Carolyn Surrick on viola da gamba and Marcia Diehl on recorder, classical guitarist Connie McKenna, Charlie Pilzer on piano and Irish drum (bodhran).

"Richards brings more than precision... her graceful touch gives an appealing buoyancy... the chamber-like intimacy and sonorities are preserved and further heighten the color, pulse and emotion of these now lively, now haunting refrains." - The Washington Post

Tune List

1 O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick (3:02)
2 The Musical Priest / Miss Ratray (3:29)
3 Miss Murphy (3:12)
4 Brian Boru / Halting March / The King of Laois (7:20)
5 Miss Abbott (3:18)
6 Leaving Port Askaig / Murray Shoolbraid of Saltspring / East Neuk of Fife / Torryburn Lasses (4:21)
7 Da Day Dawn (2:43)
8 The Emigrant's Farewell (4:50)
9 Bi Falbh o'n Uinneig (Go from the Window) (5:03)
10 Morfa Rhuddlan (Rhuddlan Marsh) (2:23)
11 Banjo Breakdown (2:26)
12 Tip O'Neill / Washington Hornpipe (3:59)
13 Miss Noble (4:35)
14 Lament for Coire an Easa / The Hazel Grove (4:13)

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Morning Aire - MM204
The evocative power of the Celtic harp has no greater genius than Sue Richards who was called "one of America's brightest stars" by the folk magazine Dirty Linen. She has performed for President Bill Clinton at the White House, is a multi-Wammie winner, four-time National Scottish harp champion, teacher and adjudicator in harp competitions nationwide, and member of Ceoltoiri and Ensemble Galilei. Her second recording, Morning Aire, won the coveted Wammie Award for "Album of the Year."

Musicians: Sue Richards - Celtic Harp; with special guests Karen Ashbrook - pennywhistle; Myron Bretholz - bodhran; Billy McComiskey - button accordion, concertina; Connie McKenna - guitar; Charlie Pilzer - piano; Bonnie Rideout - fiddle; Carolyn Surrick - viola da gamba

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Grey Eyed Morn - MM201
Celtic harp music from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Performing solo and with All-Ireland button accordion player Billy McComiskey, Scottish fiddle players Bonnie Rideout and Calum MacKinnon, Carolyn Surrick on viola da gamba, Karen Ashbrook and Maggie Sansone on hammered dulcimer, Charlie Pilzer on piano and Connie McKenna on guitar. Includes: Traditional favorites Mairi's Wedding, Jock O'Hazeldean, Auld Lang Syne; jigs and reels; 18th-century airs by O'Carolan; and Fisherman's Call To the Seals from The Patrick McDonald Collection.

"Precise and powerful without sacrificing one note of expression." - The Welsh Harp Journal

"Captivating...a host of exceptional tunes which demonstrates the versatility and haunting quality of the harp in the fingers of an expert." - The Midwest Book Review

Tune List

1. Two Harris Dances / Banks of Spey (4:20)
2. Ur Cnoc Cein Mhic Cainte (3:20)
3. Seal Songs (4:30)
4. The Clergy's Lamentation (4:00)
5. Dream Angus / Mairi's Wedding (3:05)
6. Jock O'Hazeldean (4:00)
7. Gin Ye Kiss My Wife I'll Tell the Minister (3:18)
8. Leaving St. Kilda (5:07)
9. Roslyn Castle (4:40)
10. Unst Bridal March (3:30)
11. Out on the Ocean / Peter's Peerie Boat (2:07)
12. Michel O'Connor, 2nd Air / Mr. O'Connor (4:15)
13. Auld Lang Syne (3:00)
14. Nyth Y Gwcw (2:57)

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Merrily Greet the Time - MM228
Seasonal music from Autumn Equinox to the New Year celebrates music from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and other lands where Celtic people settled. Through harvest time, to the old Celtic new year called Samhain (now called "Hallowe'en"), the time of the Winter Solstice and the longest nights, and on to the coming promised light of Christmas and the New Year, our ancestors braced for the cold with the warmth that the winter hearth (and a good pint) could bring. Recorded live at the studios of XM Satellite Radio.

Musicians: Sue Richards, Celtic harp; Maggie Sansone, hammered dulcimer

Guest musicians (tracks 3,9,15,19): Connie McKenna, vocals; Karen Ashbrook, Irish flute, pennywhistle, hammered dulcimer; Ralph Gordon, cello

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