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Leyland |
Posted on: 19-Aug-2008, 07:22 PM |
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I caught a couple of their sets at the 2008 Celtic Fling (where they alternated the same stage with Enter the Haggis) and absolutely loved the mix of songs/styles, along with their musicianship. Twin fiddles! Oh yeah, the charisma helped a lot too. I hadn't heard them live at all, only a bit on their MySpace site, and left the Fling with all three CD's. I hope to see them again in the next year or so.
Asheville NC is a great place to play, so maybe, just maybe! |
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Forum: Celtic Music · Post Preview: #258106 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 19-Aug-2008, 07:07 PM |
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Just got this CD delivered a couple days ago as my introduction to Wake the Dead and am loving the tunes. Uncle John's Band, Ripple, and Scarlet Begonias are among my top favorite Dead songs and I'm absolutely loving the blend of trad reels with these songs and more.
Track Listings 1. The Reconciliation / Scarlet Begonias / The Rose In The Garden 2. Dermot O'Beirne's / The Other One / The Pipe On The Hob 3. Uncle John's Band 4. Boys of Ballinafad / U.S. Blues / Connaught Man's Rambles / Where's The Cat / The New Fiddle 5. Liberty / Humours of Tullough / Hand Me Down The Tackle 6. Prodigal Town 7. Playing In The Band / Paddy Fahey's / Sean Frank's / The Tempest 8. Ripple / If I Knew The Way
I've got Jimmy Buffett covering the Dead and a reggae CD, Fire on the Mountain, as well, that definitely work for me. These Celtic covers of Dead songs are so much better though. I'm planning to expand my one CD Wake the Dead collection to more very soon. |
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Forum: Celtic Music · Post Preview: #258100 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 15-Mar-2008, 08:19 AM |
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QUOTE (Jmds @ 15-Mar-2008, 08:28 AM) | I've been looking for a specific type of celtic song for some time now, and I could only find two so far (I admit I didn't put much effort in looking for it though ). They are both with fast violin and no singing.
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'Arcturus' on Enter the Haggis' Aerials CD instantly comes to mind for fast fiddle play. If you go to ETH's website enterthehaggis.com, I'm fairly sure you can now buy it via a digital download. ETH has several types pf style, so you may want to check out the rest of their catalog.
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Forum: Celtic Music · Post Preview: #238160 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 12-Mar-2008, 08:53 AM |
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Fair enough. Let me re-phrase: The La Tene and Hallstatt sites just seem to be the tip of an iceberg concerning [what the origins of the ancient] Celts' [culture] really were.
Also, I tend to think of modern Celtic culture as 'Gaelic', such as in the name of the language. But that's just me as a history geek differentiating for myself between the ancient Keltoi who sacked Rome and the 'modern' ones I currently love to watch at Highlands games or see perform the greatest music on stage, etc. Every culture moves through stages of change of course.
Also, I personally don't know many fellow Americans who live a daily Celtic-centric life, but I do agree that Americans with Scots/Welsh/Irish origins certainly have historically similar attitudes about freedom, independence and the importance of close family bonds.
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Forum: The Celts · Post Preview: #237545 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 11-Mar-2008, 04:20 PM |
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Agree with the Broadway-esque format opinion and also changed channels when the young McGinty started on Puppy Love. Puhleese. And it was kinda scary watching the way the older women watched the kid sing that song.
But - I did record it later on because I really like McGinty's Come By the Hills and then the whole crew singing Mull of Kintyre. I like a couple more 'numbers' here and there - but not the whole show so much.
And really - what's up with the chick in red. Was she same as the one in grey? |
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Forum: Celtic Music · Post Preview: #237426 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 11-Mar-2008, 04:05 PM |
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I tend to think of the ancient Celts as groups with likely genetic links sharing a similar language base and cultural preferences for artwork and worship practices in the animism belief who happened to spread thoughout western Europe from central European roots. Eventually separate tribes settled, and a more modern identity evolved into the Seven Nations.
The Seven Nations seem to be what many Americans identify with when mentioning bagpipes, kilts, fiddles and step dancing in the above posts. The La Tene and Hallstatt sites just seem to be the tip of an iceberg concerning who Celts really were. Lots of mystery there. |
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Forum: The Celts · Post Preview: #237425 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 14-Dec-2007, 08:00 PM |
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QUOTE (Druid_of_Ark @ 13-Dec-2007, 02:04 PM) | I have a friend that was in the US Army and served with honor, he was a Druid but had to fight to get the Government to allow his Dog Tags to list his religion as DRUID but he won and became the first to be recognized as a DRUID in the US Army. |
I'm slightly confused about the evolution of druids from a social class to a religion. Is druidism as a modern religion based on actual historical druids, a separate and higher class of ancient Celtic society? Is neo-druid is a more appropriate title for the present day religion that appears on the dog tag as quoted above?
According to Britannia.com: Although since Christian times Druids have been identified as wizards and soothsayers, in pre-Christian Celtic society they formed an intellectual class comprising philosophers, judges, educators, historians, doctors, seers, astronomers, and astrologers. The earliest surviving Classical references to Druids date to the 2nd century B.C. The word "Druidae" is of Celtic origin. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23/24-79 A.D.) believed it to be a cognate with the Greek work "drus," meaning "an oak." "Dru-wid" combines the word roots "oak" and "knowledge" ("wid" means "to know" or "to see" - as in the Sanskrit "vid"). The oak (together with the rowan and hazel) was an important sacred tree to the Druids. In the Celtic social system, Druid was a title given to learned men and women possessing "oak knowledge" (or "oak wisdom").
I've read that the ancient historians were primary sources and stated that druids were a class of well-educated Celtic people, but were not an organized religion. Is the modern DRUID religion an invention inspired by a portion of the historical druid class?
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #223318 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 26-Nov-2007, 02:29 PM |
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English ancestors who owned property and left wills behind are great for researching back as far as the Domesday Book for some modern day folks. Or at least back to the 15thC and going forward. The English are fantastic archivists! I have several "gateway" colonial Virginia and Maryland English immigrant ancestors that descend from major and minor Anglo-Norman families so the lines can go back another 500 years. Many of the Virigina colonists were younger sons of landed families that served an indenture in order to get to the New World and earn their own property (since the oldest son would inherit all property). Once established, they tended to marry from the class they left behind in England.
My Scots lines usually hit brick walls at about the 16thC. And I have several French Huguenot lines documented from the 16thC and 17thC.
But it is really fun to find explorers, military heroes and leaders, renowned musicians, patriots and prisoners of war, learned scholars and pastors, skilled laborers, and just good people all in your family's history. |
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Forum: Family History & Clans · Post Preview: #219457 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 26-Nov-2007, 12:52 PM |
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Hello! I'm a Southern American with nearly all my ancestors coming across the water from England, Scotland and Wales. My maiden name is Edwards and is courtesy of a Welsh immigrant ancestor. I've also got Evans, Middleton, and Griffiths ancestors in the 18thC and early 19thC from Welsh populated areas of SC to name a few more.
I've really enjoyed watching the Cardiff area since getting hooked on Series 1 of Torchwood. Must be some Welsh traces of DNA saying "Hey, there's a familiar place" although very modernized now! But I hope to visit Wales for its history as well one day. |
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Forum: Wales · Post Preview: #219443 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 26-Nov-2007, 12:29 PM |
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Very cool - just checked out their music on myspace. Thanks for the heads up! |
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Forum: Celtic Music · Post Preview: #219440 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 26-Nov-2007, 12:23 PM |
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Check out Dan Stacey's myspace blog - he offers an explanation there.
or .... here it is, cut and pasted as follows:
Fans, supporters, advocates and anybody else that may be interested,
I regret to inform you that I am no longer with Seven Nations. It seems Kirk McLeod and myself have grown apart in our philosophies regarding my employment. After nine years with the lads, it is a little difficult to imagine working with other musicians but I am quite optimistic of what the future will bring to yours truly. Thanks for the countless cheers and the overwhelming loyalty you all have brought to this crazy fiddler. It will never be forgotten.
I'll be seeing you around,…..I've got new music in the works
Dan Stacey
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...logID=329049804 |
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Forum: Celtic Music · Post Preview: #219439 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 26-Nov-2007, 12:10 PM |
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QUOTE (gwen @ 02-Nov-2006, 02:06 PM) | I'm grateful for my heritage, but have always felt bad for the Anglo-Saxons. It seems sad that so many languages and cultures have been obliterated in the course of history. |
I wouldn't feel too badly about the Anglo-Saxons since they were initially raiders from the West Germanic countries who were then engaged by the Britons to help defend Britons against Picts after Rome withdrew from Britain in 410AD. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes proceeded to war against the Britons and defeated them until they fled into the far western parts of Britain that remain culturally Celtic to this day.
Modern people with primarily ancestral lines originating in the UK are all a mix of Briton/Celt/Anglo/Norman/Norse for a start. I think I could say I have Anglo-Norman-Celt ancestry.
And - William of Normandy was of mixed Norse ancestry, so he really defeated his "cousins" more so than obliterating a unique foreign culture and language (the Danelaw?). Norman French was spoken in England for nearly three hundred more years until the blend into Middle English was begun.
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Forum: Historical Archive · Post Preview: #219437 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 02-Sep-2007, 08:36 AM |
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If you and your daughter are new to the hospitality industry as you seem to be, then perhaps one or both you might consider enrolling in Hotel Motel and Restaurant Management courses, either before during or after you get started up. Two friends earned associate degrees in Myrtle Beach which included cooking and accounting courses among the requirements. I worked as an accounting manager at a Marriott once, but I would love to be a professional small innkeeper! Best wishes for your dreams to come true. |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #206156 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 01-Sep-2007, 09:04 AM |
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My husband and I again extend our deepest sympathies to the McGrady family and hold you in our prayers.
Per telephone conversation earlier, Robert would like to let you all know that the funeral services are most likely to be held at 4:30 pm on Wednesday.
Christ be with you.
Liam and Elizabeth Davidson |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #206055 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 31-Aug-2007, 05:18 PM |
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Sure and they've been snapped up by now! Such prizes are so rare. Wonder what Belfast has to offer? I can just see the TV show "The Belcher - Belfast" Oh wait, that's Bachelor..... |
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Forum: The Jester's Court · Post Preview: #205967 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 31-Aug-2007, 04:54 PM |
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Makes me wonder what Brian May really had in mind when he wrote "Tie Your Mother Down". Perhaps he was leashed as a tot?
Actually, if you compare the visibility issues involved with the huge modern SUV's, pickup trucks and Hummers to the old family station wagons and sedans as people are backing up in parking lots, and then knowing how quickly a child can dart behind a moving vehicle, perhaps leashes or similar should be mandatory.
As I walked toward a grocery store entrance one afternoon, a woman in a humongous truck asked me to tell her if anyone was behind her before she backed out. That's scary. |
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Forum: The Jester's Court · Post Preview: #205964 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 31-Aug-2007, 04:34 PM |
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The Minstrel Boy, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Carrickfergus, All Though the Night, and Come to the Hills are five of my favorites. I would love hear them in a pub. |
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Forum: Ye Ole Celtic Pub - Open all day, all night! · Post Preview: #205962 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 19-Aug-2007, 02:44 PM |
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Nice! I'm currently raising a four month old Cocker spaniel and am experiencing much of the this posting! However, dogs have owners but cats have staff!! |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #204136 |
Leyland |
Posted on: 19-Aug-2007, 02:20 PM |
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What a great subject for a thread and then so many kindnesses in the replies! My husband noticed fairly quickly after moving to South Carolina that we "strangers" here are always smiling at one another or talking to each other in lines and so on. There is quite a bit of door holding and reaching out to assist someone clearly in need. He absolutely can't get over the way drivers let others merge in front of them or otherwise politely give way.
But truly, doesn't it all comes down to showing kindness, patience and consideration to everyone who crosses your path? |
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