Wyo Woman, the pronunciation of sean-n¢s is somewhere between 'shan noess' and shan noss'.

Alice, thanks for refreshing your compilation of other 'singing threads', there's a lot of good reading there. Maybe a link to that thread should be placed in this thread too? One of the links leads to an extract from the book by Tom s O Canainn which is well worth reading for the definition of the Sean-n¢s.

And I agree totally with McGrath- unaccompanied Irish traditional singing is not 'a capella'.

Good thread, still going strong, Brett!

Noreen