I've been picking out some Irish folk music for my trip to Ireland in a week.
Here's what I loaded on my iPhone.
Do you have any favorites to share? I am looking for Irish fiddle, flute, pennywhistle, accordian, harp and vocals.
1. Mick, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy – Notes from the Heart.
2. Catherine McEvoy – Flute – several albums!
3. Matt Molloy & John Carty – Pathway to the Well
4. James Carty – Upon My Soul
5. Telyn y Celt – Trad Harps compilation
6. Cathal Hayden – The Donegal Tinker
7. Paddy Keenan & Tommy Sullivan – The Long Grazing Acre
Every summer we have a music festival here in Boulder, up at Chautauqua, and we've had many fantastic Celtic and Irish Folk groups, some including local Irish stepdancers in costume!
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Listen to the dulcimer music of Joemy Wilson. It is some of my favorite Celtic music. Enjoy your trip! My best pal gifted the trip to me for my birthday, but I couldn’t get a passport in time. I hope you will go next year too.
Good list I like the music of Catherine McEvoy and her flute since it’s mellow some of the Irish music can get a little out of control at times. If you have not yet left for Ireland I would advise you to take one of those quilts with you I found them through your flickr profile it’s quite cool here at the moment so you might need one or two.
Luana, did you know that many Irish peoples moved to the Appalacians mountains of Virgina? They took their music with them. You can hear it in Bluegrass and especially through the fiddle music. I learned this because when Irish immigrants were coming over hear, starving from the potato famine, they got off the boat, and were immidiately instated into the Union Army, right as they had reached the land of hope and opportunity, they were given their papers and indentured into servitude of the Civil War. I am so sorry to hear about your friend. My back feels like broken glass all along my spine and the only thing that keeps me going is quilting for a small group in Kingman, AZ, called Diana’s Faith House. It is a group of single and homeless women and children. I quilt as much as I can for them. I have discovered that I can make up my own simple quilts that are fast, because I hand quilt. I have taken strips of 2 1/2 x 42″ and I randomly cut them different sizes and then put them into a plastic trash bag, then I grab randomly different colors and make about 42 or 43 inches long through sewing all the different colors and sizes together. Then, I gather up all my whole batiks and make them into about 6″ of border. I also use different colors as well. I’ve found that I have so much batiks that I can whip out several colorful quits for the mothers and children. Children love colors and I think the mothers are helped getting out of depression. Their are so little jobs. I’m on SSI and I am fearing back surgery, but this keeps me going. I’ve created a lot of simple designs of my own by doing this. I always use the most beautiful “happy” colors I can find, because I’m thinking how sad and scared these women are about finding a job and being able to take care of their children. We all know that working at Mc Donalds isn’t going to cut it for heath care, they delibertely keep you under 40 hours a week. I wanted to let you know that you are the one who inspired me to do start doing this. It is through your pictures, your shows, your beautiful pictures of beautiful places all over the world that I will not be able to go that gave me the idea that I would bring color to people who were bed bound and poor. You inspired me and I thank you so much. You also have helped me with my pain. My pain is so great the pills don’t do anything any more, but getting busy with my cutting and sewing and quilting by hand, magically makes my pain go away, not my medication, just thinking of what I might be doing for someone somewhere. Making them happy, using my quilt to cover their legs in a wheelchair?? When I get done with my millions of projects, I would love to make some string art quilts, with several fabrics showing and some fancy string art clipped away. Thank you Luana, you have enlarged my life and helped me with my pain. I truely love you and your magnificiant photographs!!