De Dennan 1983-01-23
The BBC, London, England
Set 1
Conlon's/O'Keefe's/The Boys of Malin
Loving Hannah
The Rights of Man
My Donald
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba(In Galway)
The Isle of St.Helena
The Girls of Cambridge/Danny The Beer Drinker
Hard Times
Charlie's Jigs
Teddy O'Neill
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba(2)
Shepherd's Dream/Onga Bucharesti
Sweet Forget Me Not
John Kimmel's Jigs
The May Morning Dew
Tripping Up the Stairs/A Trip to Athlone
All the Fine Young Men
Loving Hannah
The Rights of Man
My Donald
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba(In Galway)
The Isle of St.Helena
The Girls of Cambridge/Danny The Beer Drinker
Hard Times
Charlie's Jigs
Teddy O'Neill
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba(2)
Shepherd's Dream/Onga Bucharesti
Sweet Forget Me Not
John Kimmel's Jigs
The May Morning Dew
Tripping Up the Stairs/A Trip to Athlone
All the Fine Young Men
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Inspired by by all the fine torrents uploaded by tonyt of contemporary Irish Singers, I put this collection together from my BBC 'Folk on 2' tape archive.
For those who are not familiar with De Danann, they first came together in the mid 1970's as a fairly traditional Irish instrumental group, with vocals by Delores Keane. The core instrumental lineup has not changed that much over the years, but the vocalists seem to do so with almost every album. Delores Keane, Mary Black,Maura O'Connell and Eleanor Shanley all came to prominence in De Danann.
These recordings feature two of the above vocalists and are sequenced as far as I am able to tell in performance order - as usual with Folk on 2 recordings from this period I do not know the actual dates of the recordings, only broadcast dates - and these sets were often broadcast out of order.
As with some of my previous offerings, there are some differences in audio quality, due to the different equipment/tapes, etc used over the years to capture these performances. There is a little digi-noise noticable during the spoken introductions and on the solo bodhran, but overall I think this sounds pretty good!
A Basic Introduction to De Danann - http://www.ceolas.org/artists/De_Dannan.html
01-06: BBC Concert Hall 1983 (01-02 Broadcast 23rd Jan 1984, 03-06 Broadcast 5th July 1983)
07-08: Cambridge Folk Festival 1984 (Broadcast 20th May 1985)
09-17: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1987 (09-13 Broadcast 18th Nov 1987, 14-17 Broadcast 1st June 1988)
Lineups-
01-08:
Frankie Gavin: Fiddle,Flute,Viola,Whistle
Alec Finn: Bouzouki,Guitar
Martin O'Connor: Accordian
Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh: Bodhran,Triangle,Bones
Mary Black: Vocals
09-17:
As Above,but with:
Caroline Lavelle: Cello,second Vocal
Delores Keane: Vocals (in place of Mary Black)
****NOTE****
In 1987 De Danann changed their name to De Dannan (spot the difference) for no apparant reason!
For those who are not familiar with De Danann, they first came together in the mid 1970's as a fairly traditional Irish instrumental group, with vocals by Delores Keane. The core instrumental lineup has not changed that much over the years, but the vocalists seem to do so with almost every album. Delores Keane, Mary Black,Maura O'Connell and Eleanor Shanley all came to prominence in De Danann.
These recordings feature two of the above vocalists and are sequenced as far as I am able to tell in performance order - as usual with Folk on 2 recordings from this period I do not know the actual dates of the recordings, only broadcast dates - and these sets were often broadcast out of order.
As with some of my previous offerings, there are some differences in audio quality, due to the different equipment/tapes, etc used over the years to capture these performances. There is a little digi-noise noticable during the spoken introductions and on the solo bodhran, but overall I think this sounds pretty good!
A Basic Introduction to De Danann - http://www.ceolas.org/artists/De_Dannan.html
01-06: BBC Concert Hall 1983 (01-02 Broadcast 23rd Jan 1984, 03-06 Broadcast 5th July 1983)
07-08: Cambridge Folk Festival 1984 (Broadcast 20th May 1985)
09-17: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1987 (09-13 Broadcast 18th Nov 1987, 14-17 Broadcast 1st June 1988)
Lineups-
01-08:
Frankie Gavin: Fiddle,Flute,Viola,Whistle
Alec Finn: Bouzouki,Guitar
Martin O'Connor: Accordian
Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh: Bodhran,Triangle,Bones
Mary Black: Vocals
09-17:
As Above,but with:
Caroline Lavelle: Cello,second Vocal
Delores Keane: Vocals (in place of Mary Black)
****NOTE****
In 1987 De Danann changed their name to De Dannan (spot the difference) for no apparant reason!
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