Product Description
For their 10th album, the veteran Irish ensemble has gathered 13 traditional and newly composed tunes. These are transformed via singer/fiddler Mairéad ní Mhaonaigh¹s Gaelic-speaking Donegal birthright and gussied up by the group¹s modern yet reassuringly earthy acoustic arrangements. The set list includes several of the jaunty dance tunes that are the soul of Irish music; Is the Big Man Within/Tilly Finn¹s Reel is an especially fine example. But Ní Mhaonaigh¹s fragile, girlish soprano creates many of the album¹s most memorable moments, Adieu My Lovely Nancy and a lullaby, Dun Do Shuil linger in the heart and ear. She and her husband, accordionist Dermot Byrne, own a pub in a small village called Teelin and it must be a great place for musicians to swap songs and tell tales. Indeed, the entire album has home-town warmth to it, a sense of achieved heritage that is at once soothing and invigorating. --Christina Roden
- Track Listings : Disc 1
- Eirigh 's Cuir Ort Do Chuid Eadaigh
- Tommy Peoples/The Road To Cashel/The Repeal Of The Union/Richie's Reel
- Is The Big Man Within?/Tilly Finn's Reel
- Adieu, My Lovely Nancy
- Bo Mhin Na Toitean/Con McGinley's Highland/Seanamhach Tube Station
- Amhran Pheadair Bhreathnaigh
- The Roseville
- As I Roved Out
- Sport
- The Humours Of Castlefin/Nia's Dance/An Duidin
- The Wind And Rain
- The Silver Slipper
- Dun Do Shuil (Close Your Eyes)
