Celtic Lute by Ronn McFarlane

There are Celtic Music specialty radio shows and on-demand audio channels. Celtic Music CDs are sold in health food and yoga stores. We know it when we hear it. Right?

So, what is it? There’s a loose definition (or maybe tacit agreement) that Celtic Music is found in those European cultures where the Celtic tribes invaded. Aside from Ireland and Scotland, Wales qualifies, as does Brittany, the Galician part of Spain, the Isle of Man. If we focus just on the Gaelic language group and fine tune it to just Scotland and Ireland, we really know what we are hearing, right?

Do we? While there is plentiful cross-pollination between these two nations and an ancient shared heritage, they are not the same place, and their music is not a single common recipe using slightly different ingredients. Irish stew is not haggis.

There are differences grand and small, subtle and great. Distinct nations with different histories will evolve different artistic natures, and this is played out in a joyful noise in our Celtic lands.

Ronn McFarlane’s heritage and lifelong interest in Scottish music allows us to walk first (as Neil Munro put it) “song-haunted over the Moors.”

www.ronnmcfarlane.com

Tracklist

1.	Carolan’s Welcome	1:50

2.	Banish Misfortune	1:46

3.	The Battle of Harlaw	1:51

4.	Pipe on the Hob	1:53

5.	Cliffs of Moher	1:13

6.	Hey My Nanny & Guzzle Together	1:57

7.	Carolan’s Dream	3:31

8.	Sheebeg and Sheemore	2:54

9.	The Flowers of Edinburgh	3:27

10.	Miss Noble	1:59

11.	Fanny Power	2:28

12.	The Flaggon	1:47

13.	The Stool of Repentance	1:21

14.	The Lone Vale	2:01

15.	Flee Over the Water	1:28

16.	Hoop Her and Gird Her	1:45

17.	If I Had a Bonny Lass	1:10

18.	Lady Atherny	2:29

19.	The Seas are Deep	1:39

20.	Tune Without Title (#172)	2:36

21.	The Monaghan Jig	2:31

22.	The Kid on the Mountain	2:24

23.	Blind Mary	3:18

24.	George Brabazon	1:27

25.	Separation of the Body and Soul	2:53

26.	The Butterfly	2:32

Credits

released July 27, 2018

PRODUCER: Dan Merceruio
RECORDING, MIXING & MASTERING ENGINEER: Daniel Shores
RECORDING TECHNICIAN: Allison Noah
EDITING ENGINEERS: Dan Merceruio, Daniel Shores
PHOTOGRAPHY: James F Carr, Allison Noah (p. 10)
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Caleb Nei
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Collin J. Rae
INSTRUMENT: 11-course lute by Andrew Rutherford, New York 1991,
converted to a 13-course lute by David Brown, Baltimore, MD 2012

RECORDED AT Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia — June 27-30, 2017
sonoluminusstudios.com
Mixed and mastered on Legacy Audio speakers.
legacyaudio.com

Recorded with Merging Technologies Horus.
Mastered with Merging Technologies Hapi.
Recorded in DXD at 24 bit, 352.8kHz.

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