GRACE BY AN IRISH SINGER @ O’DONOGHUE’S BAR - DUBLIN

September 132009

A spectator jumped on “stage”.

Grace
When Grace Gifford, the sister-in-law of Tomas MacDonagh, picked Easter Sunday 1916 as the date on which she was to marry Joseph Plunkett she had obviously no idea of the tragic events ahead of them.
Days before the planned wedding Joseph Plunkett, who suffered his entire life under respiration troubles, was admitted to the hospital and underwent an emergency operation.
On Easter Monday 1916, the day after the postponed wedding, Plunkett manned his post in the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin to take part in the Easter Rising.

After the surrender of the rebels Joseph Plunkett was arrested and imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol. Just hours before his execution on 4 May 1916 he married Grace Gifford in the jail chapel with two prison guards as witnesses.

Grace Gifford remained involved in the republican movement, especially in Sinn Féin, while earning a living as commercial artist.
She voted against the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which divided Ireland in Saorstát Éireann, or Irish Free State, and Northern Ireland, and during the Civil War she was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol for three months.
After the Civil War Gifford became a respected member of Dublin’s cultural society until she died on 13 December 1955. Grace Gifford was buried on Glasnevin Cemetery with full military honour.

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AWESOME IRISH MUSIC IN A NOISY PUB

September 132009

Awesome Irish Music in a Noisy Pub ~
http://www.peacelovejigsreels.com/
Peace Love Jigs and Reels
Cynthia jaffe & Gregg Hansen
Meade Street Pub
Saint Patricks Day !
Denver, Colorado USA

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AN DRO NEVEZ - GWENDAL (celtic music)

September 72009

A great Gwendal’s song.
Una gran cançó de Gwendal.

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Nu-Jazz Music: Fragmentorchestra - De Muse

August 262009

The Cosmic Lounge presents Nu-Jazz Music: ‘De Muse’ by Fragmentorchestra.

“Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. “A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place”. The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra…

Luca Pernici was born in Reggio Emilia in 1969. At the tender age of eight he was already carrying out preparatory studies at the local musical school “Achille Peri” and when he turned eleven, he started to take piano and solfeggio lessons whilst his passion for music and for technology pushed him to find spaces in recording studios. Later with more than ten years experience in the studio as a producer, arranger and composer his passion transformed into the desire to open his own studio in 2000: the ‘NuSound musiclab’. This became the catalyst for concentrating on and interacting with other artists and his own productions with a view to broadening his views for new horizons. It was under these conditions that he met Giulio Vetrone and the pair set up the MaffiaSoundSystem which led the pair ultimately to the beats and jazz permutations of Fragmentorchestra.

The extensive productions coming out of NuSound musiclab have inspired Luca Pernici to perform his creations to the public and for those curious of what will come next all we can say is that in the same manner that Brazilian music has influenced many artists, Senegal has captured Pernici’s mind and soul. But for the meantime set yourself free amongst the cool reflections of the Fragmentorchestra.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Fragmentorchestra

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Irish song flute music

August 172009

Flute music

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Flute Celtic Music

August 112009

this is just something i needed for a RPg… so…

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The Drunken Piper

July 302009

The Drunken Piper
Album: The Devils of Dublin
Set: The Drunken Piper/Fr. Kelley’s/Drowsey Maggie, feat. Jayne Pomplas, fiddle
www.celticmusicsociety.org

Celtic Music Society is a unique program comprised of student musicians from East Rochester Senior and Junior High Schools in East Rochester, New York. Founded in the fall of 2001, this group of young musicians performs the traditional music of Ireland in authentic traditional and contemporary styles. In our first seven years, we have performed more than 150 times, released three albums, hosted seven workshops by All-Ireland Champion musicians, and shared the stage with some of the top Irish musicians from our region and the world, including two concerts each by Irish supergroups Lúnasa, Gráda, and Teada. Director Mark Gowman and students in Celtic Music Society frequently present workshops to students, teachers, and college music education majors, and have presented several at the Eastman School of Music and the New York State School Music ociation’s annual conference. Celtic Music Society was one of only four student ensembles from the United States invited to perform at the 2006 National Music Student Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City, where we also presented a workshop for more than 100 teachers at the corresponding Music Educators National Conference.

www.celticmusicsociety.org

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Four Jigs Studio Arrangement

July 282009

From the archives… In studio, putting together a set for the album Color Blind in September 2003.

Celtic Music Society is a unique program comprised of student musicians from East Rochester Senior and Junior High Schools in East Rochester, New York. Founded in the fall of 2001, this group of young musicians performs the traditional music of Ireland in authentic traditional and contemporary styles. In our first seven years, we have performed more than 150 times, released three albums, hosted seven workshops by All-Ireland Champion musicians, and shared the stage with some of the top Irish musicians from our region and the world, including two concerts each by Irish supergroups Lúnasa, Gráda, and Teada. Director Mark Gowman and students in Celtic Music Society frequently present workshops to students, teachers, and college music education majors, and have presented several at the Eastman School of Music and the New York State School Music ociation’s annual conference. Celtic Music Society was one of only four student ensembles from the United States invited to perform at the 2006 National Music Student Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City, where we also presented a workshop for more than 100 teachers at the corresponding Music Educators National Conference.

www.celticmusicsociety.org

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I’ll Tell Me Ma and The Silver Spear

July 262009

Performance 12-13-08, opening for Teada and Karan Casey. Special guest Jayne Pomplas on fiddle; Peri M. vocals on I’ll Tell Me Ma.

Celtic Music Society is a unique program comprised of student musicians from East Rochester Senior and Junior High Schools in East Rochester, New York. Founded in the fall of 2001, this group of young musicians performs the traditional music of Ireland in authentic traditional and contemporary styles. In our first seven years, we have performed more than 150 times, released three albums, hosted seven workshops by All-Ireland Champion musicians, and shared the stage with some of the top Irish musicians from our region and the world, including two concerts each by Irish supergroups Lúnasa, Gráda, and Teada. Director Mark Gowman and students in Celtic Music Society frequently present workshops to students, teachers, and college music education majors, and have presented several at the Eastman School of Music and the New York State School Music ociation’s annual conference. Celtic Music Society was one of only four student ensembles from the United States invited to perform at the 2006 National Music Student Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City, where we also presented a workshop for more than 100 teachers at the corresponding Music Educators National Conference.

www.celticmusicsociety.org

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Nepali folk song

July 262009

Very Famous Nepali folk song Resham phiriri in the classical variation By Pravin & Jagannath… Both from Russia.Pravin disciple of Harsh wardhan Bansuri Master and Theacher .Jagannath disciple of great Tabla player and teacher Ustad Rafiuddin Sabri Delhi Gharana (style)

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