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1. The Great Irish Famine - An Epic of Death and Immigration IN THE shadow of Ireland's "holy" mountain, Croagh Patrick, stands a most unusual ship. It looks like a small 19th-century sailing ship with its prow pointing west toward the Atlantic Ocean. But this ship will never set sail. It is firmly fixed in a...
2. Transatlantic Sessions Video Showcase A  folk music collaboration between top musical artists from North America, Ireland and the UK. For the latest series (three), a beautiful old farm steading converted into a small concert/studio space at Strathgarry House near Killiecrankie in th...
3. Cool Facts About Ireland & Irish Culture I visited Ireland way back in the 1970's, and have gone back several times. Wow, has it changed! Still, it's an amazing place. I stay in touch by collecting fun facts about Ireland - Irish cultural oddities, funny expressions used there, the meaning...
4. The Very Best Music for Children A love of music is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children.
5. Celtic Music: Lenses ☺ This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...
6. Transatlantic sessions A  folk music collaboration between top musical artists from North America, Ireland and the UK. For the latest series (three), a beautiful old farm steading converted into a small concert/studio space at Strathgarry House near Killiecrankie in th...
7. I've been a Pratie Head for many's the long year... (Celtic Music) I'd been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing Balkan music with the acappella women's ensemble Laduvane,and singing American folksongs in a band called "Rank Strangers." In 1981 I married and my husband moved us to Chapel Hill, NC. This lens i...
8. Celtic Music: Mary Black Mary Black was born into a musical family in Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a fiddler, her mother a singer. Her brothers had their own group, The Black Brothers, and her younger sister Frances has been a successful singer in her own right. She began...
9. Celtic Music: Solas That praise for Solas comes from the Boston Herald, and similar words have been written in many Irish/American and major city newspapers since the band was started by Seamus Egan in 1996.
10. Celtic Music: Golden Bough Paul Espinoza and Margie Butler, founding members of Golden Bough, started performing together in 1976 and formed Golden Bough in the San Francisco area in 1980. After some changes in lineup, Golden Bough is currently a trio with Butler (harp, bodhra...
11. Celtic Music: Kim Robertson Kim Robertson is a pioneer of the American folk harp movement. She has combined a passionate sense of tradition with a love of innovation that brings a modern sound to the ancient Celtic harp. Her concerts and recordings include traditional tunes as...
12. The Laily Worm and other evil stepmother stories This peculiar ballad was collected by Francis James Child and was published in his compendium called The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in 1802. He wrote: There is only one version of this ballad, which was recorded in the north of...
13. Cruachan - Irish Celtic Heavy Metal Band Cruachan are an Irish Celtic Heavy Metal band. Cruachan formed in 1992. Celtic music, history, Paganism and mythology are prominent influences in Cruachan's music, as are the Viking Age and the works of J R R Tolkein. Cruachan's earlier w...
14. Celtic Music: Music at Matt Molloy's Back in 1992 Matt Molloy, flute player extraordinaire, former member of the Bothy Band, a member of the Chieftains, and owner of the pub bearing his name on Bridge Street, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, invited his musician friends to join him in an...
15. Determine and Claim Your Irish Heritage Ireland, also known as the Emerald Isle, the birthright heritage of my beloved son Aiden, conjures up overwhelming images and sentiments as we explore this magnificent island, the heritage, geography, the people, the history, the myths and fantasies,...
16. Celtic Music: Planxty In 1972 Christy Moore, a vocalist who also plays acoustic guitar and bodhran, got together with Donal Lunny (bouzouki, guitar), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica) and Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle) t...
17. Celtic Christmas Music Holiday and seasonal songs and tunes performed on traditional instruments associated with Celtic music will take you far from the supermarkets and commercial radio and put new life in your seasonal celebrations. Performers from both sides of the Atla...
18. Celtic Music: The Bothy Band The Bothy Band came together in late 1974 at a musical celebration of 25 years of the record label Gael Linn. When Donal Lunny left Planxty to start his own label, Mulligan Records, in 1975 he got the group together again. While their history only sp...
19. Celtic Music: Dervish Liam Kelly, Shane Mitchell, Martin Mc Ginley, Brian Mc Donagh and Michael Holmes got together in 1989 to record The Boys of Sligo which inspired them to form the band called Dervish. They were joined in 1991 by singer Cathy Jordan and champion fiddle...
20. Celtic Music: Sean-Nós Nua In 2002, following an often controversial career, Dublin-based pop singer Sinead O'Connor released Sean Nos Nua, and album of traditional Irish songs. "Sean nos" (literally "old style") is an ornamented style of unaccompanied singing. O'Connor has ad...