What are your current 5 favourite Irish CDs?

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O'Hare & Byrne - Bavan
Garry Walsh - uncovered
Matt Molloy - Heathery Breeze
Sheridan's Guesthouse
Teada - Inne Amarach

well, simply gorgeous music, I focus on the flutes these days.

# Posted on March 30th 2007 by brotherstorm

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Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn
Kevin Crehan - An Bhábóg sa Bhádóg
Patrick Ourceau and Friends - Live at Mona's
Tommy and Siobhan Peoples - Miaden Voyage
Mary and Andrew MacNamara - Open Hearth

There's lots of others, but these are the ones that keep ending up in my cd player lately.

# Posted on March 30th 2007 by Splendid Isolation

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in no particular order, at 'this' moment:

Gusty's Frolicks - Sean Keane
Selkie - Mick Conneely
Last nights fun - John carty
Peoples Molloy and Brady
Frankie gavin & Alec Finn

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by SamW

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Junior Crehan - House at Ballymakea - I'm learning a tune from it

Paddy in the Smoke

Lots of the older stuff. Trying to let the way those fiddlers play get into my subconscious. I won't really be able to sound like them, but I want them to influence me as much as possible. I like the way they're not polished and perfect---their intonation falls on the flat side, their ornaments are behind/in front/all around the beat---it all sounds so relaxed, and yet full of spirit.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by kennedy

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Top five at the moment (in no particular order):

Dervish: Harmony Hill
Cian: Three Shouts from a Hill (always a fave)
Martin Tourish and Luke Ward: Clan Ranald
Nomos: I won't be afraid anymore
Siobhan Peoples and Murty Ryan: Time on our Hands.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by late in the evening

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ah, splendid isolation, we have much taste in common......

ok, "current" heavy rotation, not "alltime top 5," right?

martin o'brien, concertina tunes from tuamgraney, east clare
breda keville, "the hop down"
gearoid o'hallmhorain & patrick ourceau, "tracin,"
mike rafferty & mary rafferty, "the road [from? to?] ballinakil,"
jack coen & charles coen, "the branch line"

i'm also giving heavy rotation to the cuts by these ITM players on the three-cd "anglo international" compendium of anglo style concertina playing:

londoner mandy murray's east galway inspired playing
east clare's mary macnamara
east clare's kate mcnamara

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceemonster

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Intotation (n. plural): the contents of an instrument case; normally includes instrument, cloth, tuner, and other assorted paraphenalia

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by kennedy

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Any 5 of Matt Cunningham's "Dance Music of Ireland" CDs.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by lazyhound

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Flook *3
Damp in the attic
Colm murphy an bodhran

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by Saint

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Angelina Carberry - An Traidisiun Beo
Oisin McAuley - Far From the Hills of Donegal
Eamonn Coyne & Kris Drever - Honk Toot Suite
Sean Tyrrell - The Orchard
Andrea Beaton - Cuts

These are the ones I took out of my car CD player tonight to plan my radio show for this week.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by moria enya

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John Carty - Yeah, that's all it is
Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh - Kitty lie over
Mary MacNamara - Traditional music from east clare
Tony MacMahon and Noel Hill - In Konocknagree
Martin Hayes - Martin Hayes

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by TradLad

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Brian Rooney - Leitrim to London
Angelina Carberry - anything
The Flanagan Brothers - An Irish Delight
Liam Farrell & Joe Whelan - They sailed away from Dublin Bay
Anders Trabjerg & Tak Tamura - For the same reason

Only got the last two recently, Loving them.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by Hugo Chavez

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Harry Bradley "Bad Turns and Horse-shoe Bends"
John Blake, Lamond Gillespie, and Mick Leahy "Traditional Irish Music from London"
Claire Keville, John Weir & Eithne Ní Dhonaile "An Trí is a Rian" (great substitute for Mary Mac's first recording)
Angelina Carberry "An Traidisiún Beo"
Mick O'Brien and Kevin O'Reilly "Kitty Lie Over"

Some other of my favourite recordings include:
"Molloy / Brady / Peoples"
Davy Spillane & Kevin Glackin "Forgotten Days"
Mary MacNamara "Traditional Music from East Clare"
Maeve Donnelly & Peadar O'Loughlin "The Thing Itself"
Carmel Gunning "The Lakes of Sligo"

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by slainte

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flook haven
solas first one
dublinersn greatest hits
pogues rum sodmony lash
afro celt sound systen, release

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by S.McMullen

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Frank Harte..................1798 The first year of liberty
Planxty...........................After the Break
The Bothy Band...........Out of the Wind..
Angelina Carberry.......An Traidisiun Beo
Thin Lizzy.......................Thin Lizzy

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by Backer

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Mary MacNamara - Traditional music from East Clare
Terry Bingham - Traditional music from Doolin
Hugh & Colm Healy - Macalla na hOige
Kevin Crawford - In good company
Micheal O Raghallaigh - Inside out

It's really hard to choose only five CDs!!! I'd like to mention Eoin O'Riabhaigh, Molloy Brady Peoples, Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon, Molloy Keane O'Flynn, PJ Crotty James & Carol Cullinan, Moher, Noel Hill & Tony Linane, Chris Droney, Edel Fox & Ronan O'Flaherty, John Williams, Kevin Griffin and so many others.... aaaaaargh it's too hard!!!!!!!

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by charliechamo

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David Munnelly..................By Heck
David Munnelly...................Swing
De Danann....................The Best of De Danann
Matt Molloy....................Matt Molloy
Joe Cooley.....................Cooley

All well recomened.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by dinn2

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Paul O'Shaughnessy - Stay Another While
Paddy Glackin - In Full Spate
Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn
De Danann - Selected Jigs Reels and Songs
Tommy Peoples - The Iron Man

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by winterowl

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Paul Brady - Welcome Here Kind Stranger
Altan - The Early Years
Oisin - Oisin

I will add 2 recent RTE radio broadcasts which should be made available on CD:

Tribute to Ciaran Mac Mathuna (excuse the spelling) and

this year's St. Patrick's Day concert from the National Concert Hall, Dublin, featuring Liz & Yvonne Kane, Andy Irvine and others

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by kuec

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Charliechamo, the ones you excluded are pretty much the same as the ones that almost made it on my list but didnt. Ceemonster and TradLad, you both have good taste.

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Splendid Isolation

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Celtic Woman... Celtic Woman
A New Journey... Celtic Woman
Celtic Treasure... Hayley Westenra

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by scarlettstara

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Late in the evening - you have good tastes

The 5 this week are
1) Tony O'Connell and Andy Morrow - self titled
2) Niall Vallely, Paul Meehan and Caoimhín Vallely - Buille
3) Solas - really anything by them
4) Grada - both albums
5) Flook - Rubai

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by shoddy fiddle player

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Rubai?! wow, that's wonderful! But....don't you forget anithing??
ehm...Lùnasa! My favourite is the first one...

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by death

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Yeah - I like Lunasa too - but there are just so many....I was trying to keep to just 5....Didnt do very well obviously

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by shoddy fiddle player

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1) Joe Cooley
2) Johnny O'Leary
3) Jackie Daly
4) Andrew MacNamara
5) Brendan Begley

Oh! I thought you meant my favourite Irish C#Ds.

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by GaryAMartin

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Not too many CDs would be my "favourite".

But I most like listening to Tommy Reck and Willie Clancy at the moment.

I'm stuck on Willie's Old Waltz off that folktrax recording.

I suppose the others would be any of Mick and Caoimhin's recordings, any Paddy Carty, any Seamus Ennis, any Denis Murphy, any Bobby Casey... Well, it goes on.

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Nico

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It's an impossible question!
I tend to put everything on my ipod and play it on random, so I've all but stopped listening to CDs 'as CDs'.
Though I did have those hoary old chestnuts 'High Part Of The Road' (peoples & Brady), and the Seamus Creagh & Aiden Coffey record that starts of with The Trip To Cullenstown on in the car the other day. I'd forgotten why I used to listen to them so much - but now I remember ...

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ottery

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At the moment

Mary McNamara - Trad Music from East Clare (all time fav)
Blake, Lamond, Gillespie -Traditional Irish Music in London (incredible groove)
Barker &Stephenson - Undertones (great aussie recording)
McGoldrick & Sherry - At First Light ( a blinder of an album!)
Lunasa - Otherworld (all six actually - timeless and amazing)

# Posted on April 1st 2007 by geoffmc

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Currently:

Angelina Carberry - An Traidisiun
John Carty I Will If I Can, and Last Night's Fun
Grainne Hambly The Thorn Tree
Just Intonational

John Carty is an incredible musician, whatever instrument he chooses to pick up, and I really enjoy Alec Finn's bouzouki work. Angelina Carberry is a great interpreter of the music, and the other musicians on the CD make a great ensemble. Listening to Grainne Hambly inspires me to keep at the harp. Just Intonational has some great piping, but I really bought it to hear Martin Reese's mandolin.

That's what is in the changer now, but at other times it could be Altan, Planxty, Cherisrh the Ladies, Danu, Live at Matt Molloy's, Cathie ryan, or Karan Casey.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by raincross_whistler

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For flootin' fans:

James Carty - Upon My Soul
Coleman Heritage Centre - As We Got Them
Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington - Fortune Favours the Merry
Gary Hastings and Seamus Quinn - Slan Le Loch Erne
Marcas O Murchu - Turas Ceoil
Dougal Adams and Ormonde Waters - The Good Ear

That's six, sorry, but there you have it.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by mcsteer

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Like others who've posted, I often listen to music on an mp3 player or from my computer, so the concept of an "album" isn't as meaningful to me as it used to be.

That said, here are 5 current favorites:

1. The Chieftains - 2
2. Paddy Carty - Traditional Irish music
3. Kevin Crawford - A Breath of Fresh Air
4. Seamus Egan - When Juniper Sleeps
5. Cherish the Ladies - Woman Of The House

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by waltcamp45

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1.At First Light...........................................Tripswitch
2.Mirella Murray & Tola Custy...............The 3 Sunsets
3.Planxty....................................................Words and Music
4.Paraig Rynne.........................................Bye A while
5.Calico......................................................Calenova Square

There are so many more but these are the ones I love to listen to most.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by eurbanjo

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Eurbanjo - yes, yes, yes - to 4 out of your 5! Top choices!

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by shoddy fiddle player

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Which one did you dislike BB?

There were so many more I wanted to name.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by eurbanjo

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Not Dislike - I just dont have any planxty - Ive heard them before but not much so I cant say if I really really like them all not. Ive all the other ones you mentioned though.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by shoddy fiddle player

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The other ones all have influences from Planxty in them so you would really love Planxty. You should try get that album if you ever get a chance.
Its amazing!
Lunney shows amazing imagination in it.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by eurbanjo

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I love these threads - they give me great inspiration for my next shopping trip to Galway, where Mike Larkin of Mulligan will have most of the CDs listed here!

My 5 Fave Irish >>at the moment <<:

* Enda Scahill - Pick it up
* Téada - Inné Amarach
* Sweeney's Men - Anthology
* Beoga - A Lovey Madness
* Colm Murphy - An Bodhran

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by RockyRoader

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RockyR. Colm Murphys cd is excellent some great musicians on it .

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by Saint

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Last five CDs I have listened to in my car (not all Irish)
Deanta - Whisper of a Secret
Deanta - first CD
Loney Bird - Aly Bain
Kate Rusby and Katherine Roberts
Le Vent Du Nord - (some french name on the CD that I forget)

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by AlBrown

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1.Tamalin
2.Padraig Rynne - Bye A While
3.Calico-Songdogs
4.Coolfin - Donal Lunney
5.Moving Hearts - The Storm

# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by fingers smith