Image: Fiona Ritchie and Irish singer Maura O’Connell in Nashville, 2015 (photo by Margaret Kennedy)
Week 24 (#2142)
The poetry of W.B.Yeats (1865-1939) embraces nature, art, mysticism, politics, love, and death. The collection “I Am of Ireland - Yeats in Song” sets Yeats poems to music by Raymond Driver and features many of today’s finest Irish singers including Cathy Jordan, Eleanor Shanley, and John Doyle.
Down By the Salley Gardens…by Maura O’Connell from Wandering Home (Hannibal)
The Strayaway Child…by Jerry Read Smith from The Strayaway Child (Silent Planet)
Stolen Child…by Loreena McKennitt from The Journey So Far (Quinlan Road)
Faery’s Lament/Reel à Bouche…by Kim Robertson from The Spiral Gate (Narada)
The Fiddler of Dooney…by Sean Doyle from The Light and Half-Light (Compass)
I Am of Ireland…by Cathy Jordan and Seamie O’Dowd from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven…by John Doyle from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
Innisfree…by Anuna from Invocation (Atlantic)
[ID Excerpt] Lauda…by Kim Robertson from Wind Shadows (Invincible)
He Tells of the Perfect Beauty…by Dave Curley and Cillian Vallely from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
The Falling of the Leaves…by Eleanor Shanley and Kevin Burke from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
The Folly of Being Comforted…by Mick McAuley and Dana Lyn from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
King of the Fairies…by Kim Robertson from Wind Shadows (Invincible)
Faery Song…by Cathy Jordan, Kevin Burke and Seamie O’Dowd from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
The Lover Tells of the Rose in his Heart…by Mick McAuley from I Am of Ireland ~ Yeats in Song (Merrow)
The Song of Wandering Aengus…by Karan Casey from Somglines (Shanachie)
Santiago…by Loreena McKennitt from Live in Paris and Toronto (Quinlan Road)