response 150 of 226:

Aug 18 19:14 UTC 2000

which one?

response 152 of 226:

Aug 19 09:09 UTC 2000

nice one.

response 154 of 226:

Aug 27 19:43 UTC 2000

A cd I have been enjoying a lot is Jack Evans' "Once Upon A Time In The 
North."  Jack Evans was in an 80s band called The Easy Club, which mixed
Scottish folk with swing-style jazz and which produced a couple of albums
which have been enduring favorites at our house.  Evans was the acoustic
guitarist who was chiefly responsible for the sound.
 
Evans has a web page, http://www.jackevans.net , and from there comes the 
news that the first Easy Club CD is going to be reissued on CD shortly.
Hooray!

response 156 of 226:

Aug 29 17:38 UTC 2000

So far, no answer to albaugh's question.  Might be a good query to 
take to rec.music.celtic, which has a much wider audience than Grex.
I can relay the query if you don't mess with Usenet News.
 
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This week's paper mail includes a mailout from Battlefield Band.
Davy Steele, the band's most recent guitarist/singer, has left
due to his brain tumor.  This is very sad; Steele is recently married 
to Poozies/Sileas harper Patsy Seddon, and they have a small child.
 
For the US tour at least, Battlefield have brought in Karine Polwart.
Karine is the lead singer from Malinky, a band who are getting incredibly
favorable press, and she also sings in a duo called Macalias whose 
work I have not heard.  This is only the second time in their long 
career that Battlefield have brought in a woman singer, and I'd love 
to hear this lineup -- and there are no shows in Michigan on this tour.
Argh.  Mickey might get a chance to hear them in Texas.
 
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Some of you might recall the Breton folk rock band Gwenc'hlan,
who I've been quite happy about since discovering their first album
in May.  French CD dealer http://www.alapage.com has finally stocked
their second release, so I should have it in a couple of weeks.

response 158 of 226:

Sep 1 13:57 UTC 2000

Yep, if you're willing, ask rec.music.celtic what a 3/2 reel is called!
BTW, the group playing it is Tannehill Weavers.

response 160 of 226:

Sep 8 16:07 UTC 2000

In a baroque dance suite (in which many of the forms are borrowed from folk
dance), a 3/2 piece would probably be a pavanne.  If I remember right.  Ask
me again in a few weeks once I've started music history.

response 162 of 226:

Sep 13 23:09 UTC 2000

music history uggh... 

response 164 of 226:

Sep 15 04:51 UTC 2000

Actually I've been on Grex for a while never really spoke up till I left ann
arbor. Grex has become my Ann Arbor fix as it may bee

response 166 of 226:

Sep 18 03:21 UTC 2000

...so after I drop Twila off after today's festival trip, I turn on
the car radio for The Thistle and Shamrock, and Fiona Ritchie is 
playing a track from the Kornog reunion album.  Wow!
Someone had mentioned a "new" Kornog album on rec.music.celtic
and I had been sure that they were mistaken.  But amazon.com 
is taking orders for it, the Herschel Freeman Agency is booking 
a fall tour for them, and someplace in the Southwest has them in 
concert in late October, all according to web pages.
 
For many of us, Kornog's mid-80s albums were our introduction to 
Breton music.  

response 168 of 226:

Sep 19 06:37 UTC 2000

The Kornog tour schedule went up on the Herschel Freeman Agency website.
Looks like the closest they get to Ann Arbor is going to be Mt. Pleasant.
We went to CMU to see them in the 1980s, I suppose we can do it again; 
of course back then I lived in Lansing, not Ann Arbor.  :P

response 170 of 226:

Dec 30 17:14 UTC 2000

For fans of what I like to call the "Big Celtic Sound", I've been 
listening to the new Enya album, "A Day Without Rain".  (Samples are at 
the official Enya site, www.enya.com.)

I have to admit I was a little nervous about this one.  Donald Keller's 
Four-Album Theory says (to summarize it badly) that pop artists have 
four good albums in them, after which they start going downhill, and 
that the downturn usually comes after a Best Of album.  Well, Enya had 
released four albums and a Best Of, and this is the first one since 
then.  So how is it?

For die-hard Enya fans like me, it's more of the same good stuff.  For 
those only moderately fond of her music, it may well be a 
disappointment.  This is the first album in which she breaks no new 
ground.  Everything sounds like what she's done before, even the 
highlights.  This is the third new album in a row with a hauntingly 
beautiful slow waltz that would be sublime to dance to (I should know, 
as waltzing to "Caribbean Blue" was the finest dancing experience of my 
life).  This one is called "Wild Child".  The other highlight in 3/4 
time, "Flora's Secret", is a compendium of Enya's favorite musical 
tricks: the pizzicato trick, the snare trick, the pseudo-ritard trick, 
etc.  It works if you're succeptible to them.

There is one song in Latin, and one in Gaelic, and apart from the 
latter there's virtually no remaining evidence to suggest to the 
newcomer that Enya started out as an Irish folk musician.  She is now 
pure MOR pop, but - as I can say with some authority, having had my 
childish ears stuffed with 50s and 60s MOR by my parents - very high 
quality MOR pop.  I'm very happy with my purchase, but I don't think 
it's quite time to retire the Four-Album Theory yet.

response 172 of 226:

Dec 31 00:09 UTC 2000

Oh I don't know. I like Enya. This album isn't my fave, but it is nice to
have.

response 174 of 226:

Dec 31 15:06 UTC 2000

she's the irish equivalent of kenny g.