celtic music fans?

[aweynsayl]

i ran across my old beat up cd of altan's "hearvest storm" the other day... i'd forgotten how much i love it! anyone have any recs for some music like it? (celtic, but, how to say, not dreary: )

(if there's already a thread about this, sorry! i'd search, but everytime i search for apple, i get posts about banannas.... not really, but you get my point. search does not love me.)

[karen ann]

Here are links to a couple of bands I've been listening to a LOT lately:

Craic Wisely (have a bit of a rock edge, they do a lot of the classic standards and some original stuff too)

Four to the Bar (also have a little edge. I love their version of My Love's in Germany on their live album)

Mary Knickle (beautiful voice)

The Celtic Music Podcast (you can get it on iTunes too) has a lot of good independent Celtic bands.

[maisiedotes]

I was in Ireland last October and did a musical pub crawl that was AMAZING. I am hooked. I like alot of the popular modern celtic music- The Water Boys especially. Are you familiar with them?

[AEZMama]

Waterboys, Clannad, Maire Brennan (lead singer of Clannad), Mary Black (any of the Black sisters), Tempest, Great Big Sea, Natalie McMaster, Ashley MacIsaac, the Pogues, the Chieftains...oh man, I could go on!

[cdmaze]

I'm a huge world music fan- and I got a compilation years back that I ADORED. I'm trying to rememeber what it was called....but it included some of the bands mentioned here!

Awesome!

[alysonb]

I second Great Big Sea, particularly their older stuff. One of my other favorites, though not necessarily Celtic by the strictest terms, more kind of Yorkshire folk, is Kate Rusby.

[ItyBty]

Oooooh! Me me me

I love almost all of the bands already mentioned, and I also wanted to add:

Black 47
Seven Nations
Mackeel
Flogging Molly
Saw Doctors
The Prodigals
The Fenians
Gaelic Storm
Eileen Ivers

[FiddleMama]

Don't miss Teada, Danu, or Dervish.

[FiddleMama]

One of my other favorites, though not necessarily Celtic by the strictest terms, more kind of Yorkshire folk, is Kate Rusby.

I love Kate Rusby. :

[allgirls]

Great Big Sea(agreeing about the older stuff), Barra Macneils, Ashley McIsaac, Mackeel, Danu, Cheiftains, Mary Jane Lamond, Seven Nations, Pogues

I love celtic music and before these last 2 babies I spent my time going to celtic music shows..I have seen GBS 30plus times

[Tanzie]

i am so in love with celtic music,i think it came from the love my mother had for it when i was a child and the hours she spent listening to it on public radio,thoug i wish i could find all of the songs i grew up on i have only been able to special order a few of them and the rest of the songs i have setteled for have been kind of comercial celtic music if that makes since...any one have any that they would recommend to me?
thanks!

[bjorker]

Oooh... :

[aweynsayl]

thanks for the recs! time to browse!

[MelanieMC]

Originally Posted by aweynsayl

thanks for the recs! time to browse!

I love celtic music, but I'm not very familiar with any particular artists. I'm off to listen! Thanks everyone!

[karen ann]

I almost forgot about this website: Celtic Lounge. It's a sort of networking site. Larry Kirwan is one of the founders. It has an integrated music player (it's called Celtic Radio on the website but it plays whenever you log on). I'm registered there as Karen (for once I got in early enough somewhere to use just my 1st name!!).

[lorijds]

ItyBty, are you me? I think that would be my list, pretty much. Interesting.

Why oh why hasn't flogging molly done a rendition of Black and Tans? Though the Fenians' is pretty good.

Don't forget the Dropkick Murphys. They do their own version of plenty of traditional celtic songs. I love their song about Finn McCool.

[eleven]

We love Seamus Kennedy. :

[Mommy StormRaven]

OOOHHHHHHHHH!!

I've got a few...

Love Seven Nations, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Gaelic Storm, a lot of the others mentioned are great too. You may want to check out celticradio.net for some great tunes too. Mother Grove won their "Best Celtic Rock Song" in 2006 (Yeah, I've got a soft spot for them, they are local to my hometown and I love them all)

Bad Haggis
Mother Grove
Homeland

[lemurmommies]

Originally Posted by FiddleMama

Don't miss Teada, Danu, or Dervish.

DEFINITELY check out Dervish. Cathy Jordan has a voice that gives me the shivers each and every time I listen to one of their CDs. Which is often.

[vermonttaylors]

The Green Linnet Music label is the "Big one" dedicated entirely to celtic music.

Check out Liz Carroll (fiddler) and John Doyle guitar.

It's a great website!

http://www.greenlinnet.com/