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June 2007
has contributed an excellent version of the traditional song,
The Flower of Sweet Strabane.
March 2007
More songs from Bards in a Box posted. Check out
Bonnie Susie Cleland and
Babylon, a traditional round.
February 2007
Singer Mairtin de Cogain has enthusiastically joined
the roster of singers on Cantaria, contributing songs from three CDs: "The
False Start" (his solo CD), "The Fuchsia Band" and "Gra da Raibh" by the The
FuchsiaBand. Eoin Verling of The Fuchsia Band also sings on Colcannon. The
songs:
The Auld Triangle |
Barrack Street | Brian
O'Lynn | Colcannon (The Skillet Pot)
| Dick Darby | Gra da Raibh |
Johnny Jump Up |
Óró, 'Sé do Bheatha
'Bhaile | Peg Leg Jack | Poc
ar Buile | Taglione | Taimse 'gus Maire |
Ten Minutes Too Late
|
September 2006
Oisin Mac Diarmada of
A Bhean A' Tí
| Peigin's Peadar
singer/songwriter from County Down, Ireland, gives us four Irish
traditional songs from her album "From Now On":
The Creel
|
The Verdant Braes
of Screen |
In the Month of January
| Slieve Gallion
Braes. Previously, she contributed
The Granemore Hare from her album
"The Longest Road."
August 2006
Bards in a Box have contributed a number of songs, such as
Peace Round and the
Battle of Otterburn, a period piece. The bards
include Katrina of Coventry, Andrew Scarhart, Gerald of Leesville, and Alden
Drake.
January 2005
It's been way too long between updates! This month,
songs, Ash Grove and
Barbara Allen, and an excellent original
song, Rogue of Dundee.
May 2004
More updates from Andrew: upgraded sound clips and a full
version of the 16th century song, I care not for
these ladies; Windows Media (.wma) versions of quite a few classics, such as
Rising of the Moon,
Star of the County Down, and
Whiskey in the Jar;
April 2004
Andrew Scarhart has added full versions of the classics
Wild Mountain Thyme and
Wild Rover to our collection. And as a first
for Cantaria, we have the Windows Media files (.wma) of the songs, as well
as
.mp3 versions.
March 2004
graciously offered four songs to our library from their "Gentle Rain" CD:
Highland Harry |
Maid in a Garret |
Rose by the Door |
Stitch in Time. You might recognize the
lovely soprano lead singer, Ivory, from her earlier contributions as part of
Ivory! "Gentle Rain" has more than 20 tracks, including marvelous
instrumental
pieces. November 2003
graced us with a recording of the traditional Scottish song,
The Gallant Forty-Twa. Check it out!
September 2003
New songs from Brian
Hart, from his CD An Lochin: My
Charming Edward Boyle | Neainsín
Bhán | Remember Dubh
Loch | Thug Mé Grá Duit
Singer
Brannigan generously offered us many recordings of songs we didn't
have in yet. So far we've added these: Bold
O'Donahue | Carrickfergus
| Dick Darby the Cobbler | I'll
Tell My Ma | Killkelly | Muirsheen
Durkin | My Singing Bird | Rambles
of Spring
August 2003
New songs from Stephanie Makem of Dorsa and two Andy
Irvine songs recorded live.
The
Banks of Red Roses, Martinmas
Time, The Close Shave
February 2003
Bernie and Barbara McDonald
The Trees They Grow High
September 2002
Aidan Brennan is well known for his excellent
work as a guitarist, regularly accompanying musicians such as Susan
McKeowan,
Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes, Johnny B Connolly and others. His lovely
singing voice and song arrangements are a hidden talent! Thanks for the
songs,
Aidan!
Biddy Mulligan | The
Boys of Mullaghbawn | The Hare's Lament
| Spencer the Rover
Some traditional Scottish songs from
Alex
Sutherland and Cronies
A Man's A Man For A' That | The
Gallowa' Hills | Johnny Cope | Melville
Castle | The Work O' The Weavers
From Paul and Win Grace, another Scottish
song, but this one written by Ronnie Brown of the Corries, The
Roses of Prince Charlie
July 2002
Gallowglass has released their second album, by land or sea,
and graciously offered several tracks for Cantaria. Check out the
traditional
song, Paddy's Lamentation, which
highlights Jamie Verlander's haunting voice, excellent guitar work by Shawn
Darling, and the delightful piping of Scott "Dracos" Hancock.
January 2002
Mary Smith, who has recorded many songs for over the past couple
years now has two CDs full of traditional ballads. From these, we have: Mary
and the Soldier | The Road to
Dundee | The Boys of
Mullaghbawn | Jock o'
Hazeldean | The Lassie
wi' the Yellow Coatie and if that's not enough, you can buy her two CDs,
Mary
and the Soldier and Two Strings on Every Bow for $12 each on the Chivalry
Music Catalog.
From a video tape that Andy Irvine
loaned me, on which he sang a few songs for a television special many years
ago, we have Arthur McBride
and Nancy's Whiskey.
Great hurdy gurdy and harmonica playing on Nancy's Whiskey.
December 2001
A new group has joined us this month, Led by the exceptional vocals of
Jaimie Verlander and the marvelous piping of
Scott Hancock, this is a group not to be missed. This month, they've
contributed two songs: the traditional Burning
of Auchindoun and the original and quite haunting tune, Soul
Bard. Check them out!
October 2001
The first release under the name 3 Pints Gone is
called The Shores of St. Valery and from that new CD we have these
contributions: cantaria/lyrics/braesbal.htm">The Braes
of Balquidder | cantaria/lyrics/lancashire-lads.htm">Lancashire
Lads | cantaria/lyrics/mary-ellen-carter.htm">The Mary
Ellen Carter | cantaria/lyrics/barretts-privateers.htm">Barrett's
Privateers | The
Yew Tree
September 2001
Wild Mountain Thyme, now called href="black-tans.htm"Come Out Ye Black and
Tans | href="follow-carlow.htm">Follow Me Up To Carlow |
href="claretohere.htm">From Clare to Here | href="twa-recruitin.htm">Twa
Recruitin' Sergeants | href="highland-paddy.htm">Highland Paddy from their
last album
as Wild Mountain Thyme, called There Can Be Only One.
Here's another couple from Donal Hegarty: Willie McBride Satire
(based on Eric Bogle's "No Man's Land"), href="bandy-legged-barmaid.htm">The
Bandy Legged Barmaid and
Pat and the Donkey
Matt Connolly, another singer from Cork sent us
his CD called "A Baker's Dozen" from which we give you these songs:
href="song-for-ireland.htm">Song For Ireland | Eileen Arun |
href="quare-bungle-rye.htm">Quare Bungle Rye (Jack Was a
Sailor...) | Castle of Dromore | href="avondale.htm">Avondale |
href="singing-bird.htm">My Singing Bird
August 2001
Oh dear, yes it's really been three months
since I added more songs, but not because I've been neglecting the
music. In fact, over the summer I've accumulated quite a pile of CDs and
minidiscs with loads of songs to be added to Cantaria. Making the time to
add
them is the hard part.
Here are a few more from the Tionol in St.
Louis in April from a fantastic young singer named Brian Hart, who I am sure
we'll be hearing much more of in the years to come.
href="a-stor-mo-chroi.htm"> A Stor Mo Chroi | The
Lambs on the Green Hills | Down
the Moor and Among the Heather | href="pleasant-delightful.htm">Pleasant and
Delightful
Jill Anderson is another lovely young singer
who is carrying on the tradition. From Omaha, NB, she has put together a
couple nice CDs that show off her range and vocal flexibility.
On the Banks of the Roses
| No Man's Land | href="sally-gardens.htm">Sally Gardens |
href="fishermans-song.htm">The Fisherman's Song
| >Easy and Slow | href="fields-athenry.htm">Fields of Athenry
You can get Jill's CDs through her web site: Briege Murphy is a
singer and songwriter from South Armagh in Northern Ireland, a region famous
for its strong song tradition and the beautiful landscape of mountains that
compose the Ring of Gullion. Most of her songs are original works, but
href="granemore-hare.htm">The Granemore Hare is a
traditional song from Armagh County, taking place near the town of Keady.
April 2001
Songs from Andy Irvine ( singer/songwriter and instrumentalist. He was one
of the first to bring the
bouzouki into Irish music. Two songs from him now, with more to come in the
future: Over the Mountain
| Prince Among Men
, a group from Kansas City, MO contributes href="step-it-out-mary.htm">Step
It Out Mary
Donal Hegarty, a treasure of a man from Cork City, Ireland led
singing workshops at the St. Louis Tionol on April 21-22. He was delighted
to
hear about and recorded several songs for us that day. Unfortunately
the surroundings were a little noisy, so the recordings aren't the best, but
good enough to learn the songs, for sure! href="tramps-hawkers.htm">Tramps
and Hawkers | href="courtin-in-the-kitchen.htm">Courtin' In the Kitchen
| Raglan Road | href="gentleman-soldier.htm">Gentleman Soldier
| The Sick Note | href="kerry-recruit.htm">Kerry Recruit.
I finally got around to adding href="flower-of-scotland.htm">Flower of
Scotland, as sung
by Wild Mountain Thyme
and from A Chorus of Two we have Leis
A Lurighan | Sae Will We Yet
| Three Ravens | href="devil-old-woman.htm">The Devil and the Old Woman |
Twa Corbies
March 2001
Andrew Scarhart has added the traditional song,
Peace Round; also known as "Hey,
Ho," "Rose, Rose," and many other names. Also, check out To
the Beggin' I Will Go, a traditional Scottish song.
February 2001
We have some new songs from A Chorus of Two, that
it's taken me way too long to post! These are from their album "Our Cups
Runneth Over". Thank you, ladies!
The Keeper | Good
People | Drive the Cold
Winter Away
January 2001
How about some new songs for Robert Burns
Day?
Andy M. Stewart sings My Love is Like a Red,
Red Rose (like no one else can sing it) and Rantin'
Rovin' Robin'. Plus, here's The
Valley of Strathmore, a Stewart original.
December 2000
Another Andy M. Stewart song -- Golden,
Golden
And, the Maid of Fyvie-O
November 2000
More articles from Mattie
Lennon
Have you visited out the Bard
Board? Ask and answer all kinds of song-related questions!
October 2000
October 30 -- fixed some functionality problems on the
Bard Board. Tree view and Last Day/Last Week message lists are now working.
Mattie Lennon of Co. Wicklow, Ireland has sent us some
original songs and three very informative articles to post. Enjoy! You
can learn a bit more about Mattie here.
Bio and video review: The Songs of
Sean McCarthy
Event report: The Bog
isn't a place, it's a feeling
Band review: You're
Welcome to the Rambling House
Songs: John
Carthy
| The
Slopes of Sweet Cloonee
| Browe's
Puckan
We've long admired
Scottish singer and song writer who was the voice of Silly Wizard from
1974-88. Now we have some of his songs to share here -- you know them, you
love them, hear them from the source!
The Parish of
Dunkeld | The
Ramblin' Rover | The
Queen of Argyll | Patrick Sheehan
| The Broom of the Cowdenknowes
Rare's Hill is another
traditional song from Liza Kay's album, Passion
Flower.
With the release of the Jolly Rogers' new 2-CD album
"Loose Cannons," we have
these new songs on A
Hundred Years Ago | Little
Beggarman | Down By
the Glenside | Get Up Jack!
John Sit Down | The Ould
Triangle | Run Come See
| Willie McBride (aka No
Man's Land, Green Fields of France) | Shoals
of Herring | Mingulay Boat Song
| The Ballad of Captain Kidd
September 2000
Sept
4 -- Introducing The Bard
Board! We've been talking about it for ages, but now here it
is... a place especially for bards and all lovers of traditional songs,
music
and "bardic arts" to gather and share knowledge. We hope you
enjoy it!
Sept. 1 -- I've completed lots of clean-up work on the
site in the last couple days. All but a very few songs are now MP3 and
low-res
WAV formats only. The remaining songs have to be resampled from tapes.
New songs added today -- two more from Mary Smith: House
Carpenter and The Riddle Song.
A few songs from Wild Mountain Thyme that should have been added long
ago: Star of the County Down
| Skye Boat Song | Fiddler's
Green | href="whiskey_in_the_jar.htm">Whiskey in the Jar | Farewell
to Nova Scotia | The Foggy Dew
August 2000
Chris
Caldwell, a musician in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, has contributed
these new songs. In addition to being a singer, Chris is also a fantastic
bodhran player. Farewell to Whisky |
General Guinness | The
Maid of Culmore | The Roaring Baby
More songs from Mary Smith: Let
Mr. Guire Sit Down, Curragh
of Kildare, Johnny
I Hardly Knew Ya, As
I Roved out,
The
Croppy Boy and The Golden Vanity
July 2000
Songs from Mary McEvoy of Dublin, recorded at the Tommy
Makem International Festival of Song. Northern
Sky and James,
I Understand (A song about James Joyce)
Mary Smith of Richmond, VA sings The
Great Silkie, Mattie Groves and The
Rocky Road to Dublin
A scrapbook of
narratives and photos from the Tommy Makem Festival of Song
June 2000
Several things are happening with just
now. First of all, we have converted all the sound files to MP3 format and
are in the process of linking those new files up to all the song pages.
From this point forward we will just offer .WAV and .MP3 format files rather
than RealAudio. The MP3 files are much better quality and smaller file
size than the RealAudio files. The drawback is that they do not stream
(play as you download). Weighing the options, we have decided that MP3 is a
better choice. If you have any comments about this, we'd like to hear them..
ABC files: Kate is working on notating music for
as many songs as possible and compiling the tunes into ABC format files.
This
will allow visitors to use ABC software to display and print the tunes for
the
songs. In the past we have resisted adding sheet music/notation to
because we have felt -- and still feel -- that folk songs inherently do
not have a definitively "right" tune. The folk tradition allows for
interpretation and bardic license, each song becoming uniquely styled by
individual singers. Over the years though, we've gotten so many requests for
sheet music that we're bending. The philosophy still remains -- we are not
saying these are the "RIGHT" tunes, just a common version we've
collected. Keep an eye out for these to start appearing by the end of the
summer.
Having spent the last 4 months living and working
in Ireland, Kate has been immersed in music. She capped off her Irish
experience by attending the Makem School of Song in South Armagh, Northern
Ireland. The event
was hosted by it's legendary namesake, Makem, and featured well-known
musicians the Brothers, Family, Eugene Byrne, John Campbell, Len Graham,
David Hammond and poet Peter Makem.
It was an absolutely out-of-this-world week of songs, singing, sharing,
learning
and celebrating! And this was only the first year of the event! KAte's
working
on a scrapbook of photos,
narratives and sound clips... all in the interest of
enticing YOU to attend next year!
The folks who attended the school were a GREAT
bunch of people! Many are singers and poets but even those who are not
contributed to a wonderful experience by sharing stories, experience, humor,
laughter and encouragement.
May 2000
A fun pair of minstrels - the Bards - have just joined us and added four new
songs to Cantaria's growing
library. From their "Marked by Great Size" CD, we have A-Beggin' I Will Go
and The Dragon's Retort. From
"Gullible's Travels," we've added A Fairy Story
and Johnny at the Door. Take a
listen!
delightful traditional rendition of the perennial favorite, the Lusty
Young Smith.
April 2000
We've added a new group of minstrels - Dog! These lovely
ladies with lilting voices have agreed to share some of their songs with
us. Off their "Ice Cream for Abbie" recording, we've added
several new songs to Cantaria's archives: Dumbarton's
Drums, Bonnie Glen Shee, The Finest of Them All,
It's So Big, and The Unquiet Grave!
December 1999
HUZZAH! We've broken the 100 song mark!!
Would you like to help us make it to 200?? If you have recordings of
traditional or
favorite contemporary songs to contribute to Cantaria, talk
to us!
Kate Akers, our own web hostess, screwed up her courage and recorded her
first
song, The Humours of Whiskey. Be gentle, it took three
years to get this far.
November 1999
New songs from Scarhart: Loch
Lomond and Rearguard's Lament
July 1999
Wild Mountain Thyme has released a new album -- Scotland's
Depraved and from that we have these new songs:
href="galway_shawl.htm">Galway Shawl, href="sleepin_maggie.htm">Are Ye
Sleepin Maggie, href="finnegans_wake.htm">Finnegan's Wake, Drummer
Girl, Banks of the Lee, href="mountain_dew.htm">Mountain Dew, Highland Paddy
and Scotland's
Depraved.
A new project by the Sassy Lassies
gives us these new songs: A Health to the Company,
Grey Funnel Lineand href="roll_me_over.htm">Roll Me Over.
Shule Aroon
April 1999
Another song from the Jolly Rogers: Mrs.
McGraw (McGrath)
February 1999
A new bard! Monalee Kendall has
contributed a bunch of songs for the archive. Here are a few to begin with.
More are
forthcoming.
Johnny Be Fair
The Parting Glass
The Trooper
and the Maid
November 1998
More songs from Axel the Sot, off his new album, Favorite Pub Songs
Botany Bay
The Mermaid
Spanish
Ladies
Whiskey
in the Jar
August -- more sea chanties from jollyrogers/">The Jolly Rogers
The Dutchman
Pay Me My Money Down
South Australia
June 1998 -- A new bard for
Rathflaed DuNoir,
The Black Bard of Meridies
Dream Warrior | blackbard/estrella8.htm">Estrella VIII | For
Elizabeth | I'll Fear Nothing With You At My Side
| The Jester | The
Queen of All Elfhame | Thirty Years
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