Sat 4 Nov 2006
Play Show 11 - Getting Colder
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CFP11 Show Notes:
Getting Colder. Winter is starting to tighten it’s grip on our home state of Kentucky. So, as the weather is finally making an effort to turn cold we will try to keep you warm, at least mentally, with another half hour or so of great Celtic, Traditional and Folk music from around the world.
Our trip back home to Scotland was excellent! We toured around, frequented a whole lot of coffee shops, drank lots of coffee, got together with some old friends and made some new ones.
This week we’ll be introducing you to some of the folk we talked to during our trip and of course we’ll play some fine music.
Ron Renninger- Kilkenny Mist (Instr.). New Jersey Singer-Songwriter Ron Renninger manages to cross many genre borders effortlessly with tunes and songs that you can listen to all day without thinking this is or is not my kind of music – it’s all good! His skills as a guitarist are obvious from “Kilkenny Mist”.
Alasdair White- The Cockerel In The Creel. We talked to some very talented people on our trip. Here’s a fantastic fiddle player you may know from the Battlefield Band. This set of three tunes: Pull The Knife and Stick It Again, The Flooded Road to Glenties, The Cockerel In The Creelis on Alasdair’s brand new CD The White Album which is now out in the UK and will be available to the rest of the world by the middle of the month.
We start with an Irish jig here with a very macabre title, to do with an old tale about witches. Apparently if they were stabbed, they would try to get you to stab them again. The second stab, it seems, renewed their life. And then you’d better watch out! The first of the reels was written by the late and celebrated Irish fiddler, Jimmy McHugh. Originally brought up in Donnegal, like many of his countrymen, he settled in Glasgow, where he brought up a family and became well known on the Glasgow and Scottish traditional music scene. The Cockerel In The Creel was written by the legendary piper and composer Donald MacLeod. The title refers to the Hebridean practice of putting the Cockerel in the creel on Sundays - probably something to do with stopping the cocks crowing on the Sabbath. In any case its is another great tune from “wee” Donald.
From Alasdair’s liner notes from The White Album / an Clar Geal
You can hear our interview with Alasdair White from the Battlefield Band in an upcoming episode of the Celtic Folk Podcast, so stay subscribed to catch it.
Alasdair is currently on tour with the Battlefield Band in the United States.
Alasdair White’s MySpace page
Battlefield Band’s website
Temple Records
Hard Logic - Leprechaun Hammer Incident. Hard Logic is a six-member Jazz band but that doesn’t stop them from hitting Celtic, Funk, Latin and Rock along the way.
Mary Knickle- Weave the Yarn. Typical of Mary’s songs that focus on stories from the woman’s point of view is Weave the Yarn. Her album “Weave” is full of wonderful original songs that have you believing they were written a couple of hundred years ago.
The ShowStopper Track:
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Kaedmon- Lone Ranger.
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STOP PRESS OK, so perhaps we have one or two more things to do to get Upbeat Sounds ready for the music-hungry public, but we’re so close. We will be opening this new shop just as soon as we can. You’ll be able to find it here when it goes live. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress.
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