HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY - Irish Music Mixtapes

Dear friends, family, and friends of friends,

Happy St Patrick's Day

To celebrate.... a selection of Irish music.

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1 Paddy Glackin with Donal Lunny - The Last House In Connaught/The Gooseberry Bush
2 Paddy Glackin with Donal Lunny - The Dispute At The Crossroads/The Queen Of May/Jenny's Chickens
3 The Bothy Band - Farewell To Erin
4 The Bothy Band - The Balintore Fancy
5 The Bothy Band - Tiocfaidh An Samhradh
6 Moving Hearts - Irish Ways and Irish Laws
7 Moving Hearts - Tribute to Peadar O'Donnell
8 Moving Hearts - The Storm
9 The Bothy Band - The Green Groves Of Erin (Live)
10 The Bothy Band - The Flowers Of Red Hill (Live)
11 Planxty - Tabhair Dom Do Lamh
12 Moving Hearts - May Morning Dew

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If you are familiar with Irish music, you may have spotted the common link in all these recordings is my father, Donal.
This St Patricks Day he is giving a concert in Auckland as part of the Green Fire Islands event, a fascinating project.

This is a small selection of his work, which runs to well over 100 releases.
If you want a good introduction to his music I heartily recommend the
retrospective collection "Journey", available now from Amazon, click here.

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:: 2 ::

1 Moving Hearts - The Lark
2 The Bothy Band - Rip The Calico
3 The Bothy Band - The Maids Of Mitchelstown
4 Moving Hearts - Finore
5 Planxty - As I Roved Out
6 The Bothy Band - Calum Sgaire
7 Matt Molloy - Heathery Breeze, Long Strand
8 Matt Molloy - The Bush In Bloom, Drogheda Bay, Jenny's Chickens
9 Paddy Glackin with Donal Lunny - Sporting Paddy/John Doherty's/McFarley's
10 Paddy Glackin with Donal Lunny - Paddy Rambles through the Park

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A bunch of tracks by Marxman (a band I was in some time ago) were recently uploaded
for a forthcoming article in Dublin's State Magazine. Click here to peruse and download.

By request, my Christmas/NYE podcast 2006 has been re-uploaded, four hours of good tunes, click here.

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Other stuff:
John Niven's "Kill Your Friends". A gleeful Hunter S. style coked-up demolition of the music industry
full of familiar names and close to the bone anecdotes. Its tremendously dark, funny and filthy... click here.

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So...as we say farewell to St Patrick let us consider the words of G. Massey, from Zeitgeist:

"They must find it difficult...
Thos who have taken authority as the truth,
Rather than truth as theauthority"

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Wherever you are in the world, have a good one.
Oisin x

Music: www.myspace.com/oisinlunny
Website: www.lifebloodproductions.co.uk

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Photos taken at the peak of Mount Errigal, Donegal, 1998
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