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Thread #162106   Message #3856721
Posted By: GUEST,Peter Laban
23-May-17 - 08:20 AM
Thread Name: Request for Irish music recommendations
Subject: RE: Request for Irish music recommendations
That's certainly an eclectic collection. Not sure Ican read a particular direction or taste from it though.

I'll try give yo ua few pointers, ones I like.

The fiddleplaying of Bobby Casey, Tommy Potts, Tommy Peoples, Patrickk Kelly. And the new recording by Liam O'Connor, the Loom, must get a mention, I suppose.

As recordings go, PJ Crotty, Carol and James Cullinan's Happy To meet, Mick O'Brien and Caiomhin O'Raghallaigh's Kitty Lie over must get a mention as a modern classic. An Triur, peadar O Riada with martin Hayes and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, especially their first recording. Maeve Donnelly and Peter O'Loughilin, The thing itself. Jack Taltry and Cormac Begley, Fir Bolg. Cormac Begley's new CD. And for anothe classic look at Noel Hill & Tony Linnane's 1978 recording. Claire Keville John Weir and Eithene ni Dhonalie's An Tri is a Rian. Breda Keville's Hop down. Anything by Iarla o Lionaird.

I'll mention Eithne ni Uallaichain again, especially her posthumous 'Bilingua' but La Lugh's Senex Puer still ticks all boxes after all those years and her singing remains unsurpassed.

If you want to go explicitly modern perhaps The Gloaming may work for you, or ensemble Eiriu.

it could be a never ending list but for now, this will get you started.