Recommended Music

I love Alan Stivell and specially his album "Back to Breizh", i would really like to share it with you...

This is his official site where you can listen to an extract of his last album "Au-delà des mots" :

Alan Stivell

Thank you very much Celtica, I'll check it out now.
Anne

Annham, if you want to listen to some extracts of Back to Breizh, you'd better go to this site :

Back to Breizh

and here you can find comments in english about the album, I agree with them !

Comments

Brother
http://www.brothermusic.com

A good band, but they don't play traditional Celtic. They are part Celtic, part Australian, part rock/pop. They use the bagpipes, didgeridoo, etc and are quite enjoyable to listen to.

Even if they don't end up on here, everyone should at least check them out.

i'll hopefully be seeing them in november at the dunedin celtic festival. i'd certainly like to hear some of their music before i go.

Oh, geez...there's a ton!

I'd love to have more here from the following:

Alex Beaton
Old Blind Dogs
Andy M. Stewart
Celtic Soul


I would highly suggest:

Dust Rhinos

Wylde Nept

97th Regiment String Band (They're a Civil War group, but they not only do a lot of Celtic crossovers, but they're just wonderful! Especially the Sea Chanteys album.)

Acoustic Shadows of the Blue and the Gray (The name's a mouthful, but they're another Civil War group that are excellent. Doesn't help that they originated from my regiment so um...I'm a little biased. )

Boys of the Lough

The Bothy Band

Celtic Nots

Steeleye Span

TamLyn

Aeone

Jera Denny


Now, if you aren't afraid to get into the realm of filk, there's a few artists who have done great crossover songs. Of those, I'd go with the big ones, like Leslie Fish, Heather Alexander, and Julia Ecklar.

Ok, I'm done now!

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Pleasanton Highland Games and heard from a band called Kinship. I really enjoyed their music and didn't see any of it in your playlist.

If I missed it, I apologize for the redundancy...I'm new to your site. You have a wonderful community here, and a beautiful site.

-Chris

Two words...Moya Brennan!! her album "Whisper to Wild Water" encapsulates all that is good in celtic music..IMHO

I discovered recently a wonderful celtic album. It's from Nolwenn Korbell, a breton singer, the name of the album is "N'eo ket echu" (it's not the end).

You can hear some extracts here :

Nolwenn Corbell

Here in the Albany New York area the band Hair of The Dog is a really good local band. Personally I like Flogging Molly, Hair of THe Dog, and the Glengharry Bhoys as well as a lot of the other more popular bands and singers.

Thank you all for the suggestions. I have contact the bands listed where a link was provided.

If you could provide a homepage link to the artists, then we can contact them directly.

Does anyone know SKILDA ? This band is part Breton, Irish and Scottish (a great melt I guess ). They play an original and modern celtic music. For more informations and extracts (click on the album Skilda "13 dreams") there is a link to the official site on the band too :


http://www.survivalrecords.co.uk/BuyOnline...e/BuyOnline.htm

Just a note that we have a ton of new music to add, but am a little behind with the work on the estore and tshirts.

I am pretty sure we have received music from some of the suggested groups. Will have it all indexed within a few days.

So, I can to recommend "Clann Lir" and "The Mill", for example. I gave all links there. If you want, you can contact with the musicians by E-mail. [email protected] - this is.

Thank you!

I saw Le Vent Du Nord perform in Montreal during this past summer at Francofolie. They played at the Trad" booth. Also headlining was La Bouttine Souriante ( referred by Dirty Linen Mag. as the best band in the world ) I also saw Vent Du Nord perform on CBC TV with the Chieftains a few months ago.

Le Vent Du Nort ( Northern Wind)

http://www.leventdunord.com/

La Bouttine Souriante ( Smiling Boot )

http://www.millepattes.com/Anglais/bottine/index.html

If these groups don't make the line up here ( not specifically Celtic) it would really be worthwile to browse their websites and try a listen

Yikes one more...still not quite Celtic ( sorry Macfive Promise to stick to Celtic next post )

Tanglefoot

http://www.tanglefootmusic.com/

Mike.