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Mark D,


Just a note to thank you very much for contributing to the Community Funding. Everyone appreciates your generosity! You get the famous IrelandYes award for thoughtfulness.    You are a valued member of this forum community. Thanks so much!


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You are very welcome!


Although our visit to Ireland was back  in 2004, I still visit this site just about everyday. I really enjoy reading all the very insightful posts !


I also like to share my love of Celtic music. Something I am very passionate about!


It is true that you start planning your next trip to Ireland the minute you return from your first. 


Cheers !
Mark D.



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So Mark D., when are you going back?  You must have Matt Molloy's on your brain.


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So what's some of your favorite Celtic Music?  Tell us, tell us!

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Hello All,


My favorite group is an local band called "The Mckrells"  I have known the leader of the band since high school, and have been following his music since 1980.  His current band plays  Celtic/Bluegrass music.  It's hard to explain, so you can sample thier current cd here:


http://cdbaby.com/cd/mckrells7


If you want a real kick, click on " Black Is The Color" a Caribbean twist on a Cetic standard.


My wife and I toured Ireland with a couple members of the group in 2004. Seeing the sites during the day, and barnstorming pubs/hotels at night. I consider myself a amatuer singer, but the guys let everyone sing at the sessions. It was a real thrill. Especially singing in Matt Molloys !


After meeting Matt himself, I became a big fan of the Chieftians!. I also like Christy Moore, Dervish, The Furey's, Patrick Street. And lessor know bands like The Fenians, The Glengarry Bhoys and  Gaelic Storm.


I have taken many a mandolin lession, but can't seem to be able to sing and play at the same time ! So I concentrate on singing.  Hopefully one day a Celtic band will be looking for a singer ! <GRIN>


Cheers!
Mark D.


 


 


 


 


 

 


 


 



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They sound great :)


Some of those bands sound familiar -- of course Christy moore and the chieftains, but also Gaelic Storm and Dervish.  If you like 'fusion' music, have you heard Afro Celt Sound System?  It's Celtic and Senegalese music!  I also like Steve McDonald, Lothlorien, Black 47, Enter the Haggis, Altan, Great Blue Sky, and lots of others.  I get my 'fix' from my own CDs and listening to Celtic music for free on the web at www.live365.com -- they have dozens of Celtic music stations!  One just for ren faire music, even.  I listen mostly to Celtic Pub Radio, though occasionally tune into Highlander Radio.  It's a great place to find out if you LIKE some band before buying the CD.



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Wow !


Thanks for the website tip !!


Big Blue Sky came here to Burlington, VT a few years back. I thought they were awesome !  I will have to give Afro Celt Sound System ! I really like Black 47. I also like listening to " The Thistle and the Shamrock" on Vermont Puiblic Radio.  I met the host Fiona Ritchie when she came to Vermont with Silly Wizard. She is as nice in person, as she is on the radio.


Off to check out www.live365.com  !


Cheers !
Mark D.


 


 


 


 


 



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I'm sorry, the band i saw here in Vermont was Great Big Sea. Another super Celtic band.

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I really like Great Big Sea.  I believe they're from Newfoundland.  I was in Ottawa last week and heard a couple playing in a pub that were from Newfoundland.  She was great fiddle player.  Fast.  Canada has some great traditional music particularly Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland.


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Mark D is right, the McKrells are great, he got me hooked on them.

Green Dragon, thanks for the web-site where I can listen to more music and decide which CDs to buy.

Mark, I've always wanted to go to Canada. I"m going to make a note of the places you mentioned where they have traditional music.

Thanks everybody. Music is good for the soul, especially Irish music.

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For a while, I took mandolin lessions from Brian Perkins of the Vermont band Atlantic Crossing. They feature lots of Quebec music.


To listen to a few samples , click below:


http://www.contracopia.net/cgi-local/cdpage/cdpage.cgi?cdreq=ac2


http://www.contracopia.net/cgi-local/cdpage/cdpage.cgi?cdreq=ac1


 


I really enjoy Road to Montreal...or Sample #4. It was the first song I ever was able to memorize !!


They are really a great band !


Cheers!
Mark D.


 



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Everybody: I sat next to a couple from Belfast and sang Irish songs today, watching an old man dance with all the young pretty ladies (he was a great stepper, used to teach dance.) I think he is 86 years old and his family says he has early Alzheimer's but he remembers every dance step. He was so full of joy, when he left it was like a little air went out of the baloon. I found myself able to learn some of the words to songs I'd never heard before as the couple from Belfast next to me knew the words...there was a Malone Malone song, and lots of others. We watched astonishingly talented young people performing Irish dances, and learned 2 of them have won awards and are competing in the world championship for Irish dancing in Belfast in the spring.

Was I in Ireland yet? Nope, I was at an Irish festival at a church here in California! Just happened to sit next to a couple from Belfast.

There was a funny song about a boy who's mixed up because his father is orange and his mother is green.

Do you know what a 5-course dinner is for an Irishman? Four Guinesses and a baked potato. (Sorry the jokes at the church festival were bad.)



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"Oh, it was the biggest mixup that you had ever seen... me father, he was orange, and me mother she was green!"


This was, I believe, recorded by the Irish Rovers to a traditional tune.  I had this album (The Unicorn) when I was about 6 years old... an early intro to Irish music I loved :)   It also had The Unicorn song, of course ("There were rats and cats and elephants but sure as you're born, the loveliest of all was the Unicorn"), Goodbye Mrs. Durkin (I'm sick and tired of workin!), The Orange and the Green (above), the immortal Black Velvet Band, and lots of others I love.


I think I got the name of the group wrong, Mark... it should be Great Big Sea.  I mixed it up


 



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Green Dragon wrote:
"Oh, it was the biggest mixup that you had ever seen... me father, he was orange, and me mother she was green!"


Green Dragon, you know the song! Plus plenty of others. I wish I could learn the words to lots of Irish songs before we go to the pubs.

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Hi there, do you happen to play any celtic instrument like a bodhran perhaps?



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