THE BAREFIELD CEILI BAND: FLOWERS OF THE BURREN
The Barefield Ceili Band is a group of talented young musicians from an area just north of Ennis, Co. Clare, who have won several All-Ireland titles and have just released their second CD. It alternates full band tracks, with 27 musicians playing the whole range of traditional instruments, with recordings by smaller sub-groups of musicians, and while the band numbers have the typically heavier ceili band sound, albeit a very tight and tidy one, the other tracks, thanks to the variety of instruments present and the skillful arranging, are indeed like those gorgeous little flowers which grow in the crevices of the rocky Burren.
Rating: *** 1/2
Price: $19.99
Contents:
1. Reels: Earl's Chair / I'm Waiting for You / Fred Finn's
2. Jig: Lark in the Morning
3. Hornpipes: Gan Ainm / Road to Goleen / Her Golden Locks Flowed Down Her Back
4. Jigs: Burning Brakes / Strike the Gay Harp
5. Song: When a Man's in Love
6. Reels: Midsummer's Night / Crosses of Annagh
7. Planxty Sile Ni Ghradha
8. Jigs: James McMahon's / Old Man Dillon / Joe Organ's
9. Highlands: Green Grow the Rushes / Johnny Doherty's / Proinsias O'Maonaigh's
10. Reels: Trip to London / Fiddlesticks
11. Jigs: Lilting Fisherman / Flowers of the Burren
12. Song: Raglan Road
13. Reels: Rolling in the Barrel / Miss Lyon's Fancy / A Fair Wind
14. Slip Jigs: Rooney's / Lass in the Parlour / Humours of Ballymanus
15. Reel: Mayor Harrison's Fedora
16. Jigs: Roscommon / Cliffs of Moher / Blarney Pilgrim
17. Reels: Devanney's Goat / Maid of Feakle / Cameronian
