Anyone like Celtic Music?

Like the tannahill Weavers, only have "Cullen bay". Love that CD!

used to listen to the "Thistle..."

Cool show.

Love Enya's music too, although not traditional celtic necessarily.

Tom

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Absolutely! I'm not very knowledgeable about it, but I like it:) Got started on The Chieftons and Bothy Band. I have listened to the thistle and shamrock---LOVE that woman DJ's accent:cool:

Love Enya's music too, although not traditional celtic necessarily.
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Me too. You might check out Lorena McKennit(sp?) as well...
 
Not only like it, I play it. Tonight, in fact. I do tinwhistle and Irish flute, and sing - it's a pretty busy time of year.

heroes include Bothy band, Solas, Chieftans, Silly Wizard, etc. etc.

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Silly Wizard. Are they still together?

Loreena Mc Kinnet really made a big splash although I wouldn't consider her celtic like Solas or something. She has had a lapse in putting out albums and I read somewhere her boyfriend was tragically killed in a boating accident and it has taken her a long time to get over it.
 
Silly Wizard is long gone, but some of the members are still in the business. Andy Stewart, their fabulous (and almost unintelligible) singer is still one of the very best with Scottish songs - he put out a wonderful CD of Robert Burns songs a few years back.

I agree about the O'Carolyn tunes - some gems there. Sit-and-listen music, not get-up-and-dance.
 
Listen to the thistle and shamrock RELIGIOUSLY.. well, used to. Things aren't quite so mellow these days.

Chieftains. Yah. Of all the Celtic music exported that hit mainstream to one degree or another, they are my favorites.

What would you call The Pogues? Genre, I mean. I know the etemology of their name...
 
I like whistle music .Especially the soloists ., There is an old style of irish songs that when sung can transport me to Ireland with no airplane necessary .There is one Irish lass who has a smile in her voice that just shivers me timbers .The name of the tune is Inishear . There are a lot of variations . When she sings it the world just goes away .
 
Thistle and Shamrock for sure...carried locally out of Antioch in Yellow Springs (where you were hiking).

I'll love it tonight after the first pitcher of green beer in the Oregon district too...
 
A lot of people don´t know that celtic´s culture is so vast that you can find his past and present all around Europe, including Spain.
Try to have Carlos Nuñez´s work.
Is fantastic. Specially his first CD "A irmandade das Estrelas"

And if you want to know how it is old good music in the new modern world try Hevia with his Electronic Bag Pipe.

Saludos desde España.

NS
 
NAVAJA SEVILLANA said:
A lot of people don´t know that celtic´s culture is so vast that you can find his past and present all around Europe, including Spain.
Try to have Carlos Nuñez´s work.
NS
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When I saw Solas last weekend they were raving about Carlos' playing, saying they had just gone on a tour with him. I'll have to check him out There's some pictures of him on their website:

http://www.solasmusic.com/gallery.ctp?page=1&service_id=376
 
Definitely an addict, myself.

Another great source of Spanish Celtic music is Milladoiro. "As Fadas de Estrano Nome".
 
NAVAJA SEVILLANA said:
A lot of people don´t know that celtic´s culture is so vast that you can find his past and present all around Europe, including Spain....
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one of my grandmothers came from galetea. not the spanish one, the austro-hungarian one. 'galetea' is a variation of 'celtia', so i am part celt. celts were in a broad swath of europe from spain to the mongol steppes and were in between the nordic/germanic tribes to the north and the graeco-romans of the southern areas. in spite of being called 'barbarians*' and 'un-civilized**' they had a rich and artistic culture of great refinement and morality.

* a barbarian was someone who did not speak roman latin or greek & sounded to them like they were always saying bar-bar-bar, it did not originally imply they were brutal savages. the celts weren't.

** civilized only mean people who live in cities (latin civvas or civitas), civilization was those people who lived in cities. those who chose to live in villages or tribal gatherings were 'uncivilized'. again nothing to do with savagry or brutality.

all those negative meaning were added to the words later on, a bit like yokel, bumpkin, or redneck are used nowadays to describe the poor unfortuneate people who live in the country and engage in brutal blood sports instead of being citified veggies with politically correct views which must be enforced on the unenlightened country folke. (politics - again another word derived from POLIS, greek for 'city')

anyway 'erin go bragh' - up the celts. guiness for everyone! my enya CD is playing in the background.
 
I really like Steeleye Span, but I hate to say it - many of their songs are English.

I have CDs by the Dubliners and the Irish Weavers - like them both.
Celtic music keeps me awake when I drive and can't handle Cajun and Zydeco anymore.
 
My wife Loves Lorena McKennet (SP?)

We have one Cd of hers, and she is on a CD we have featuring various celtic artists.

I did get to play Side drum in a Pipe band back in NC several years ago! very stirring music!

Tom
 
I listen to the T&S on NPR every Sunday whenever possible.

I have the soundtrack CD from Riverdance in my car's CD player and was listening to it just this morning. Say what you want, but I like Bill Whelan. So too the Chieftains, Tannehill Weavers, Battlefield Band, and others.

I played both drums and bagpipes in college for the university band, too. But that was mid-late 70s. Ages ago, now.

Noah
 
I've got a penny whistle that sometimes belts out an Irish like tune. The finger placements are kinda small for my large fingers though. It's interesting that the ndn Flute can also have Celtic overtones at times.
We also like Enya and we have a couple of other Celtic CD's by other musicians but I don't remember their names. Windham Hill or something like that sorta rings a bell.
 
I'm a big fan of Frances Black. She also gets bonus points for one of the best ever make-out-tape songs, "All the lies that you told me"...
 
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