Hi Guest & Guest, Peter Laban,

I'm a magpie when it comes to listening to music. There are very few styles of music that I don't like, but for harp music, I agree about M?ire N? Chathasaigh, who plays some of the music with her sister Nollaig Casey on a favourite CD of mine called Lead the Knave. It has my all time fave Carolan tune called Michael Ward (which is also known as Michael O'Connor)on it.

Apart from Derek Bell, and any of The Chieftains music I can find, my other go-to for harp is a Scottish duo called Sileas, which is Mary McMaster and Patsy Seddon. As I said 15 years ago on this thread: I am allergic to "soppy, slushy type of harp music which is everywhere" but I love the gutsy, raunchy players like Derek Bell & Sileas. My adjective for Sileas is "raucous".

The Little Cascade (Sileas) (1987)

Sileas plays this tune differently to Alan Stivell.

Then, just to mix it up a bit, I am also a Pogues fan.

Helen