slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (07/08/85)
I am interested in Celtic harp albums, having heard this instrument
played on Prairie Home Companion. Can anyone tell me which artists,
labels and albums I should be looking for? I don't see any in my
local record stores, so will probably have to special order, and I
need a starting place.
Along the same lines, is there anyplace in the Denver-Boulder area
that carries lots of folk albums?
Thanks for your help. Send replies by mail, and I`ll sumarize to
the net.
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Derek Bell (of the Chieftains) has at least two solo harp albums. He has a very classical sound. Another alternative is Alain Stivell who has a more pop/rock sound.
bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) (07/11/85)
> I am interested in Celtic harp albums, having heard this instrument > played on Prairie Home Companion. Can anyone tell me which artists, > labels and albums I should be looking for? > > Sue Brezden One of my favorites, playing traditional wire-strung celtic harp, is a married couple from Chicago (whose names escape me at the moment), but who perform under the name Clairseach (pronounced "clairshawk"). They have at least two albums out, many cuts of which feature Ann's playing of the celtic harp. -- Robert Reed, CAE Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr
radar@avsdT.BERKNET (Linda Kaplan) (07/11/85)
> I am interested in Celtic harp albums, having heard this instrument > played on Prairie Home Companion. Can anyone tell me which artists, > labels and albums I should be looking for? I don't see any in my > local record stores, so will probably have to special order, and I > need a starting place. > > Along the same lines, is there anyplace in the Denver-Boulder area > that carries lots of folk albums? > > Thanks for your help. Send replies by mail, and I`ll sumarize to > the net. > > > -- > > Sue Brezden > > Real World: Room 1B17 Net World: ihnp4!drutx!slb > AT&T Information Systems > 11900 North Pecos > Westminster, Co. 80234 > (303)538-3829 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Send lawyers, guns, and money... > -Warren Zevon > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
bill@persci.UUCP (07/15/85)
Another record (tape) I like is Patrick Ball's "Celtic Harp - The Music of
Turlough O'Carolan" by Fortuna Records, Box 1116, Novato CA 94947. He plays
the traditional Irish wire-strung harp (which produces very bell-like tones).
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Bill Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!billclive@druri.UUCP (StewardCN) (07/15/85)
You may want to check out Alan Stivell, who's likely the best known practitioner. He has a lot of albums out; probably the best one to start with is Renaissance of the Celtic Harp. I think it's his best effort; it's sweet and has mystery; most people really seem to like it. Many of the others are concert recordings, which tend to sound uneven and maybe bombastic; maybe it has to do with the enthusiasm of the friends he always seems to invite to play with him, and his interest in linking rock and (pre-)tradition. Which seems to have its points, though, on stage. I saw him in concert a few years ago (rare in US), and many people left at the intermission. Yet for those who stayed, he managed to turn the thing into a kind of rave-up, getting people dancing while he played the pied piper with one of those ancient reed horns which sound something like a single bagpipe chanter. Another path, and maybe offering wider sense of language in the experience, is to listen to Kevin Burke and Michael O'Domhnaill. Theirs is Irish (and sometimes Breton) fiddle and Gaelic vocal music with a great difference of sensitivity, and very individual guitar accompaniment.
connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) (07/20/85)
> > I am interested in Celtic harp albums... > > One of my favorites, playing traditional wire-strung celtic harp, is a > married couple from Chicago (whose names escape me at the moment), but who > perform under the name Clairseach (pronounced "clairshawk"). They have at > least two albums out, many cuts of which feature Ann's playing of the celtic > harp. > > -- > Robert Reed, CAE Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr , Clairseach in Irish means "harp", and is pronounced something like "claw-ir-shack". That stroke over the "a" (called a fadha, I think) turns it into an "aw" sound. Speakers of German should note that the "ch" is the same sound. Not terribly relevant, but given the popularity of Irish folk music, I thought people might like to know... -- C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd An rud a bhionn, bionn.
bill@persci.UUCP (07/28/85)
In article <184@steinmetz.UUCP> connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C.Ian Connolly) writes: > , >Clairseach in Irish means "harp", and is pronounced something like >"claw-ir-shack". That stroke over the "a" (called a fadha, I think) turns >it into an "aw" sound. Speakers of German should note that the "ch" is the >same sound. Not terribly relevant, but given the popularity of Irish folk >music, I thought people might like to know... >-- >C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly > , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd >An rud a bhionn, bionn. I have always heard "Clairseach" (or whatever its myriad different spellings) pronounced "klar-sock". Is the difference perhaps the difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic pronounciation? (I think this was the way Alison Kinnaird pronounced it at her recent Seattle concert.) I have nearly always heard it in reference to the Scottish Highland harp, but as in so many things to do with Scottish ethnicity here in the USA, there is an awful lot of misinformation and b**** floating around. I had been hoping to take some courses in Scottish Gaelic here, but it seems that the fellow who used to teach has met some fair young lass from the old country, and no longer has time... P.S. I think this belongs in net.nlang.celts, so I have re-directed follow-ups there. I hope somebody can answer my question.. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) (08/01/85)
As a Scottish friend of mine once put it: "The difference between Irish and Scottish is like the difference between Bavarian and Northern German." My Irish teacher was from southern Ireland, and the pronunciation was the best approximation I could type. The pronunciation you mentioned seems close enough, and is probably different due to the different dialects, but I don't know much about the Scottish language. -- C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd An rud a bhionn, bionn.