FOLKTRAX 275 - THE GAELIC
WEST - The West of Ireland & the Western Isles
Presented by Seamus Ennis - Compiled and produced by Alan
Lomax 1951
An outstanding study of Celtic music in which Seamus wonders why the Irish
have not preserved, except in Donegal, any of the rhythmical chorus songs he
encountered on his visit to the Hebrides. He also gives an account of his work
for the Irish Folklore Commission in the 1940s when he transcribed hundreds
of songs from phonograph records - he himself sings and ends by playing a lament
followed by a reel on his handed down set of Uillean (bellows-blown) bagpipes.
Keening - AN CAILIN AERACH - Talk about collecting
- NA MISHA - Another song - SOLDIER, SOLDIER
- Talk & phonograph - CUCANANDY - Maureen O Sullivan
- The Fox Chase - Padraig O Keefe - AN MHAIGHDEAN MHARO
- MISE CHUNNAIC Hebridean Chorus - Waulking Song - Milkmaid
Song - Drinking Song - Cow Croon - THIG A CHIUNNEAG, THIG
- Big Song - UNA BHAN - Port a beul & Poteen Story -
Fairy Song - SEOTHIN SEO - THE ONE-TUNE FIDDLER - The
Lark in the morning - Mary McLeod, Barra & Annie Johnson - Bird imitations:
Puffin/Crow/ Black-backed Gull - Cantearachd - Pibroch singer
& piper - Female Canterachd - Lament & Reel
