| Kennedy, Mary Ann / An Dan: Gaelic Songs For A Modern World |
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| Album: | An Dan: Gaelic Songs For A Modern World | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Kennedy, Mary Ann | Added: | Jul 2017 | |
| Label: | Arc Music Inc. | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-07-26 | Pull Date: | 2017-09-27 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Sep 24 | Sep 17 | Sep 10 | Sep 3 | Aug 27 | Aug 20 | Jul 30 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 06, 2022: | Music Casserole Oran Do Dh'lain Domhnallach | 4. | Sep 09, 2017: | Music Casserole Grioglachan | |
| 2. | Sep 20, 2017: | At the Cafe Bohemian Oran Do Dh'lain Domhnallach | 5. | Sep 05, 2017: | Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics Sith Na Coille | |
| 3. | Sep 13, 2017: | At the Cafe Bohemian Sein, Horo, Sein | 6. | Sep 02, 2017: | Music Casserole Gradh Geal Mo Chridhe |
| Album Review |
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| Margy Kahn Reviewed 2017-07-25 | ||
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Glaswegian Mary Ann Kennedy sets Scots Gaelic lyrics from poems written by others and herself to music; lilting Celtic voice; lots of passion here for the Old Ways; like Runrig's songs, her Gaelic seems understandable at least emotionally without translations; lots of elegies here for people and places past NO FCC's (all Gaelic); Favorite tracks: 4, 6,10 1-Sein, Horo, Sein – (Sing!) – 4:55 --Gaelic lyrics accompanied by keyboard, guitar, and violin along with chorus; straight up anthem to sing out your heritage and culture 2- Oran do dh'lain Domhnallach (Song for John McDonald) –5:54 – interesting fusion of Tswana background with Kennedy's Gaelic singing as an elegy for a Scotsman who spent most of his life in Ghana and South Africa; accompanied by guitar 3 – Mise Fhuair (I Have Won the Apple) –3:29 –“and the buds filled on my tree and with the greenness of love- you grew into a round apple to my eye, that brought me sweetness beyond hope.” Solo, with pipes and accompaniment *4—Sith Na coille (Forest's Peace) –5:54- starts with pipes; solo with guitar and violin; liltingly pretty and heartfelt 5-Eadar-Thir (Between-Land) -3:11 – “Between the two: the edge of creation and heart of the world”– lots of orchestration here under passionate singing *6 –Dan Ur do Fhloraidh NicNill (A New Song for Flora MacNeil)-3:58 – heavy chords lead off this passionately sung elegy for famous Gaelic singer who also loved primroses; lots of pipe drone 7-Taigh an Uillit –3:33-- song in praise of a village in the Scotish Highlands – modern, almost jazz-like accompaniment 8 –Iain Againn Fhin -3:57--(Our Own John) – elegy to fallen WWI vet 9—Gradh Geal Mo Chridhe – 5:03 --”My True Love” – passionate singing with violin; poem set to music with chorus *10 –Air Leathad Sleibhe -4:40 --”On A Hill-Land Slope” --4:40 – lighter singing with echoes and chorus-- limpid and beautiful 11-Grioglachan- 4:35 --”Constellation” - song of praise and dedication to soul sister of Mary Ann, Maggie MacDonald-- beautifully pointillist notes | ||
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