The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4429   Message #24990
Posted By: Aine
02-Apr-98 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: fellow sean-nos singers?
Subject: RE: fellow sean-nos singers?
Alice: Mo dhearmad! My mistake! The title is "The Seven Steps To Mercy" (in Gaeilge: Seacht gCoiscéim na Trócaire - which by the way, they mispelled on the CD) I'm very sorry - Realworld is the record company name. Try a search on Green Linnet again, it might work this time with the right title :-) Le meas, Aine

Martin: I bought the tape you mentioned, Amhráin ar an Sean-Nós, in Glencolmcille when I was there a couple of years back. The first chance I had to listen to it was after being kidnapped (seriously, from a phone box outside the pub)and taken to an all night house party, where we danced, played music and sang until the sun came up. My bean a ti's house was on the other side of the glen and since I was still so "pumped" from the craic at the party, I turned down a ride home and walked back. I listened to "Amhráin ar an Sean-Nós" while I strolled through the glen and up the mountainside through the mist rising up from the valley. It was a experience I'll never forget - the hairs on the back of my neck still rise up. I would recommend this recording to everyone interested in Irish music (sung in Irish), whether it be sean-nós or not! If you can't get to a glen by the sea at dawn in Ireland, just kick back in a comfortable chair at home, close your eyes and use your imagination . . . you'll enjoy it, I guarantee. Slán go fóill, Aine