This week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine we celebrate St. Patricks Day with a show devoted to American performers of Irish Music. Inspiration for the program is the recording Ireland-Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840 released in conjunction with a recent exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. The recording features music written by Liz Carroll and performed by an all-star band. We’ll hear three selections from that album and build sets of music around them featuring Patrick Ball, Frank Ferrell, Eileen Ivers and more.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Frank Ferrel & Friends / “The Rollicking Boys Around Tandragee-Merrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife” / Fiddledance / Great Meadow Music
Liz Carroll et al / “Blind Daniel the Piper-Crow Street” / Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design 1690- 1840 / Art Institute of Chicago
Patrick Ball / “Carolan’s Ramble to Cashel” / The Music of Turlough O’Carolan / Fortuna
Flynn Cohen / “Lady Hamilton” / The Lazy Farmer / Wepecket Island

Liz Carroll et al / “The Plane of the Plank-The Knight of Glyn’s Jig” / Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840 / Art Institute of Chicago
Top Drawer String Band / “The Big Medley” / Top Drawer String Band / Fossil
Frank Ferrel & Friends / “Peter Feeney’s Dream-Flowers of the Flock” / Fiddledance / Great Meadow Music

Liz Carroll et al / “The True Love of My Heart” / Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840 / Art Institute of Chicago
Randal Bays / “Castle Kelly-The Bunch of Green Rushes” / Oyster Light / Self Produced
Ensemble Galilei / “The Exile-The Chanter’s Song-The Job of Journeywork” / Following the Moon / Dorian
Seamus Egan / “The Congress Set” / A Week in January / Shanachie
Eileen Ivers / “On Horseback” / Wild Blue / Green Linnet
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways