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This album was greeted with critical acclaim when released in Ireland and Europe. They are masters of guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica, hurdy-gurdy and their vocals and arrangements of mainly Northern songs are outstanding. Joined by Dónal Lunny on bouzouki and Kevin Burke on fiddle.

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Roses and Tears

Capercaillie

"Their seductively contemporary sound and production, their mastery of traditional instruments (along with a willingness to look beyond them) and the voice of Karen Matheson have helped Capercaillie re-model the Celtic landscape” - Q Magazine Credited with being at the forefront of the renaissance in folk/roots music over the last 20 years...

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Live

Lau

Lau is a formidable union of three of the finest and most innovative exponents of modern traditional music: Kris Drever (guitar and vocal), Martin Green (piano accordion) and Aidan O\'Rourke (fiddle). Together, their explosive live performances have been generating a major buzz around the UK folk circuit that has now become a world-wide party...

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Days Are Mighty

Jeb Loy Nichols

“I wanted to keep this one personal”, says Jeb Loy Nichols. “Personal and small. It seems like that's the only way to keep outside all the nonsense that passes for the music business these days.” For Jeb Loy, the personal has always been political. A small act of sacrifice, of defiance, of awkwardness, is often the starting point of...

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Welcome Here Again

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill

Martin Hayes epitomizes the fiddle music of County Clare for many people. He started playing when he was seven years old and, by the age of thirteen, was touring with the Tulla Ceili Band, arguably the most revered and famous ceili band in Ireland at the time which was led by his father, PJ Hayes. Martin was also entering national competitions...

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Absolutely Irish

As seen on public television. Absolutely Irish! brings together the brightest stars of traditional Irish music for a once-in-a-lifetime concert that will leave folk music fans stunned by the virtuoso performances. In April 2007 at the Irish Arts Center in the fabled Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City, film maker Paul Wagner and musician and...

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Promenade

Kevin Burke & Michael O'Domhnaill

Before Patrick Street was even a gleam in his eye, fiddler Kevin Burke had already set new standards for fiddle/guitar duo playing with his collaboration with Micheal O’Domhnaill. With Promenade (as well as the companion recording Portland), they created a music that virtually defined a genre. The simple yet intricate and fluid...

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The Best of The Bothy Band

The Bothy Band

“A truly great band – innovative, hard driving, committed and wise… I envy you the joy of hearing their music for the first time.” -Come for to Sing "...together they took jazz chords, Gaelic-language songs, taut instrumental interplay, and a deep sense of their shared Celtic past and created a body of music that still shines ... This...

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Ships in the Forest

Karan Casey

"Angelic. Haunting. Spellbinding." (The Calgary Herald) "among the loveliest in folk music..." (The Boston Globe). Karan Casey is one of the most influential and imitated vocalists in Irish and American folk music; a natural innovator, she proves that the ancient and the modern make excellent bedfellows. On Ships in the Forest, her fifth...

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Sun Dirt Water

The Waifs

Nobody’s fretting about making an album here, much less the challenge of following a triple-platinum, multi-award-winning independent roots music landmark of five years earlier. As tourists take pictures of the studio’s scarred back wall—the place where Waylon Jennings is said to have practiced throwing his bowie knife between takes back...

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Sweet Life (Pre-Order)

Catie Curtis

Sweet Life abounds with positive energy-- from the warm and winsome coming-of-age allegory “Are You Ready to Fly?” to the languid, sepia-toned “What You Can’t Believe,” on which she disperses the doubts that gather, as the lyric puts it, “under darkening clouds.” That song, like many of the disc’s dozen offerings, reaches out...

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Mutopia

Jeff Coffin

“Jeff Coffin’s boldness, intensity and verve set him apart from other saxophonists.” - Jazz Time Jeff Coffin is a member of the GRAMMY®-award winning Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Featuring: Jeff Coffin: saxes, flutes, etc... / Roy “Futureman” Wooten: drum Set / Felix Pastorius: electric bass / Kofi Burbridge: piano, -3, keys...

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Long Road

Drew Emmitt

“Emmitt’s original songs…are likely to become Bluegrass standards.” – Dirty Linen “Emmitt’s power and range as a vocalist, his speed and precision as a picker, his tasteful songwriting and song selection shine...” - An Honest Tune Featuring: Drew Emmitt: Guitar, mandolin, vocals / Chris Pandolfi (Infamous String Dusters...

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Outside the Box

Billy McComiskey

“Every listener of Outside the Box can now experience the ever-widening ripple effect of Billy McComiskey as the finest B/C button accordionist in Irish-American music. He is revered by box enthusiasts on either side of the hyphen. Or as Billy himself put it: “My playing is Irish but unmistakably American.” - Earle Hitchner (Wall Street...