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Van and his brilliant band incl Georgie Fame, Pee Wee Ellis and Leo Green. Originally from the “The Healing Game” album/cd. Copyright lyrics and music Exile.


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Title: Away We Go Again Artist: The Chieftains Album: Chieftains 7


Van Morrison – vocals, saxophone, ampli-coustic guitar, harmonica Tony Fitzgibbon – violin John Allair – Hammond organ Ned Edwards – electric guitar John Platania – electric guitar Cindy Cashdollar – pedal steel, dobro David Hayes – bass Neal Wilkinson – drums Crawford Bell – backing vocals, acoustic guitar, trumpet Karen Hammill – backing vocals Janeen Daly – backing vocals Live at Austin City Limits Festival by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison is a limited edition live album recorded from the Austin City Limits Festival concert at which he was the first night headliner on September 15, 2006. It has only been made available at live Van Morrison concerts and at the Van Morrison Official website. The September appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival was at the closing end of a tour to promote his 2006 released country and western album Pay the Devil. The tour had begun on March 7, 2006 with Morrison’s first ever concert at the famed Ryman Auditorium. His performance at the festival was rated as one of the 10 Best Shows at Austin City Limits by Rolling Stone Magazine and the two disc CD features the complete concert.


Andrea Corr performing her brand new single “Shame On You” live & acoustic (accompanied by Anthony Drennan on guitar) for her EPK.


Caroline Corr – The Corrs

Originally posted 2011-09-26 19:38:09.


Irish Dance Group – Irish Step Dancing (Riverdance) 2009 Riverdance Lead dancers are Nicola Byrne and Alan Kenefick


Sharon Corr


Interview with Liam O’Flynn & alternative version of the Foxchase. Sorry I ran out of tape at the end, but I thought it was worth including for the interview alone. No piece of Irish music is so widely known by name in the land of its origin at least as “The Fox Chase.” As an instrumental composition it is attributed to Edward Keating Hyland, a celebrated blind piper who received some lessens in theory and harmony from Sir John Stevenson in Dublin. The melody or theme on which it was founded was an ancient lamentation to which was sung some verses in both Irish and English reciting a dialogue betwcen a farmer and a fox which he had detected with the “goods” on him in the shape of “a fine fat goose.” From this air then called “An Maudrin Ruadh” (Modhereen Rus), Hyland developed the famous descriptive piece, including the sounds of the chase such as the tallyho, baying of the hounds, death of the fox, etc., and winds up the performance with “The Foxhunters’ Jig”, an expression of the general delight at the result. Fortunately we can present a copy of “The Irish Fox Hunt” as printed in O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, published about 1806. This being but seven years subsequent to the date of its composition according to Grattan Flood, it can be safely assumed that O’Farrell’s setting is authentic. The next version, entitled “The Fox Hunt” is that found in the manuscript collection of Henry Hudson, 24 Stephens Green, Dublin, completed in 1842. A


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