The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69073 Message #3784922
Posted By: keberoxu
12-Apr-16 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Subject: RE: Maire Ni Scolai
Gael Linn, in 2011, issued a CD album that is a sort of sampler, with eight singers in recordings made for Gael Linn over the years. The title of the CD is "Amhráin Ghrá." There are links to it in the Mudcat thread called "All the dear Spinning Eileens."
Plainly Máire Ní Scolaí was something different than a "spinning Eileen," with her classical singing background and her firsthand fieldwork in collecting traditional songs. However, as previous posts state, her one vinyl LP was recorded for Gael Linn at about the same time that the Cabaret Gael Linn was promoting singers who accompanied themselves on the harp.
"Amhráin Ghrá" opens with three songs from Máire Ní Scolaí's long-playing album from 1971. They are:
An Draighneán Donn
Seoithín Seothó
Eibhlín, a Rúin
This Gael Linn compilation is CEFCD 201.