From Mountain to Mountain - Mary McPartlan

From Mountain to Mountain - Mary McPartlanThe delight in passing on songs by one singer to another is writ large in this immensely imaginative collection. Mary McPartlan used her Fulbright scholarship to mine the rich seam that is Kentucky musician and song collector Jean Ritchies song store. Seamie ODowds fiddle is a joy on Pretty Saro, and the song most closely associated with Bess Cronin, How Can I Live (at the Top of a Mountain) is a miracle of acoustic blues tinged guitar overlaid by

Popularity and social importance

Waltz from Orsa

TheMerry masonsMerry Sherwood rangersMinstrel's fancy

the chestnut tree is cut down in the name of progress but the stricken ash tree germinates new shoots from within itself

Connecticut

He is one of Ireland's best known traditional fiddlers

Andrew Dall - bodhrán

Air: Bean Dubh a' Ghleanna

Jigs: Richard Brennan's Favourite/My Darling Asleep

Reasonland

Jim Conroy's / Stockton's

Joe's 2002 release 21 tracks of what is only the best of traditional Irish music