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MacPherson's Rant: And Other Tales of the Scottish Fiddle
by Stuart Mchardy  Synopsis Whether the fiddle is in the hands of the notorious Highland freebooter MacPherson or being played by a young man learning a fairy tune, these tales reflect a traditional culture that is still thriving....
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Celtic Music
by Fiona Ritchie Publisher Comments This vigorously researched portrait of the Celtic music family explores the full spectrum of its passionate performers, their beloved instruments, and this timeless music. Features musicians such as The Chieftains, Natalie MacMaster, and Enya, and songs...
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The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
by Liam Clancy Publisher Comments In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the...
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In Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music
by Colin Irwin Publisher Comments There's nothing quite like hearing Irish music in Ireland. Not on big concert halls or grand arenas, but in the small pubs in remote areas where the locals habitually gravitate for those informal sessions that invariably develop into a serious social...
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Scotland's Music: A History of the Traditional and Classic Music of Scotland from Early Times to the Present Day
by John Purser Publisher Comments Encompassing traditional, classical, and popular music and placing them in their historical contexts, this all-embracing account of the history of music and musicians in Scotland stretches from the Stone Age to the present day. Adding vital information...
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Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music
by Ciaran Carson Publisher Comments Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly...
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Celtic Music : the Complete Guide (00 Edition)
by June Skinner Sawyers Publisher Comments Celtic music means many things to many people. To some it recalls the Irish rebel songs of the Clancy Brothers, to others the ensemble playing of the Chieftains or Enya's ethereal vocals. Yet Celtic music is much more than reels, jigs, and sentimental...
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Popstars the Making of Hear Say
by Maria Malone Publisher Comments From 25,000 hopefuls, prestigious judges from the TV and music business selected five individuals to form the Popstars band. Those five band members moved into the Popstars house and started recording an album to be released during the series. Author...
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Fiddling with Disaster
by Ashley Macisaac Publisher Comments Famous as a child, Maclsaac was , by 17, living in New York, working with composer Phillip Glass, earning over 1,000 a week. This autobiography spells out Maclassac's tale with bleak humour and equally bleak honesty. The result is a riveting read....
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The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography
by John Glatt Publisher Comments The history of the Chieftains over the last thirty-five years is the remarkable tale of how an unlikely group of enthusiasts came together to rescue some of the world’s most beautiful music from near-extinction, brought it to an audience of...
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Celtic Music
by Kenny (edt) Mathieson Publisher Comments This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments, such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes, whistles, mandolins and more...
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Songs and Dances of Scotland (Penny & Tin Whistle)
by Liz Thomson Synopsis An exciting collection of songs and dances from Scotland's rich musical heritage. All are arranged for voice and recorder, pennywhistle, or flute, or any other suitable C instrument. Each is complete with full lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord...
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Halfway Home: My Life 'Til Now (Lisa Drew Books)
by Ronan Tynan Publisher Comments Yes, I am a singer. But I am also a horseman, an athlete, and a doctor. I am a son, a brother, and a friend. I can sing as I do only because of the life that I've led. With each decade, I've found myself in very different, evermore challenging arenas...
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The music, songs & instruments of Ireland
by Karen Farrington Book News Annotation "The music of Ireland inspires in its listeners a passion that is rarely found in other forms." After pronouncing this truism, former Fleet Street journalist Farrington presents a thorough, if non- scholarly history of the varied forms of traditional...
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History of England from the Close of the Saxon Heptarchy to the Decloration of American Independence: Number 17 of Carr's Miscellany
by Harry Dichter Publisher Comments The following poetical sketch of events, so intimately connected with our own history, being adapted to music of the most familiar kind, has been considered by several, as a means of improvement for juvenial students in history and muisc....
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Cerys Catatonia & the Rise of Welsh Pop
by David Owens
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Viking Book to Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World
by Albert Friedman Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-64) and index....
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Weftminfter Drolleries Both Parts of 167
by J Woodfall Ebsworth
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Oxford Book of Carols
by Percy Dearmer
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English & Scottish Popular Ballads Volume 3
by Francis James Child
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