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Celtic grooves scotland the brave
Celtic grooves scotland the brave





Sure, some of the artists are Canadian – Leahy and Ashley MacIsaac – but they fit right in. It’s worth any price to have a recording of Nelson Mandela’s Welcome to the City of Glasgow by Blair Douglas. Narada is a great label and I particularly enjoy the Brave Hearts CD. Scotland is an embarrassment of riches – if you like the skirl of bagpipes, and who doesn’t? The Police Pipe Bands of Scotland is a great collection of tunes, including the lovely Highland Cathedral and a nice mixture of traditional ( Scotland the Brave, Bluebells of Scotland) and modern ( Buzz ‘N Rolls, Skimpy Knickers). From Wales, some chestnuts like We’ll Keep a Welcome and Cwm Rhondda from Bryn Terfel: We’ll Keep a Welcome ( Bryn Terfel Wikipedia) and some folk from Ar Log. Patrick’s Day on March 17, it seems a waste not to hit a variety of “celtic” countries’ music. It also has better known (in the West?) artists like Youssou N’Dour and Bjork.

celtic grooves scotland the brave

This has a more mixed bag of music – with Arabic Groove, you could hardly miss a track. Tracks Amarain by Amr Diab ( Wikipedia) and Intil Waheeda by Hisham Abbas ( Wikipedia), both Egyptians.Īnother collection of tunes that includes Middle Eastern as well as music from around the world is the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2005. I’m not so fussy and I find the songs very accessible. If you like knowing what the singer is saying, you’d better know French and Arabic (and perhaps other languages?). But the Arabic Groove collection is really fun to listen to. I find the Celtic Tides one to be okay, although a bit insipid. The Putumayo collections have always been good. So this month has been a mixture of Arabic and Irish tunes.

celtic grooves scotland the brave

Patrick’s day holiday and partly just from dumb luck in finding some interesting new music at the public library. I had a slight shift in music, partly inspired by the impending St.







Celtic grooves scotland the brave