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Congratulations to Danny Spooner and Mike Keran

Traditional singer, Danny Spooner, embarked on a tour with fiddler  Mike Keran (fiddle), Richard Tognetti 
(artistic director and lead violin) and the Australian Chamber Orchestra to present a program called  *ENCHANTED.* 
The program included pieces by Brahms, Bach and Paganini interspersed with traditional folk song. 
Two contemporary compositions were in the song list: 
"Newell Highway" by John Warner and Bill Scott's  "Innisfail Song" commonly known as "Hey Rain". 

http://jam.org.au/moxie/events/sydneyeast/danny-spooner-aco-2007.shtml


Tassie Tattie Howkers

Possums on the Roof

Quantity:     CD Price  $20 CSC106 cd


The long awaited CD from the Tats is now available. The CD was recorded to highlight the tunes of Tasmanian fiddler Angus Cameron. They are organised into sets suitable for dancing yet the music retains a life that makes for enjoyable listening.
The Tassie Tats include fiddlers Angus Cameron, Leueen Morgan and Beth Sowter, piano accordion player Iain MacLeod, mandolin and English concertina player Mike Watts and fretless bass player Daniel Brauchlie.
A book of the tunes on this CD is now available . It also contains dances suitable for the CD and a further 80 tunes composed by Angus.
  A Special offer of CD and Book A River of Whiskey for $25. See Specials

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A Long Way from Home
   Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and Friends
This is their third superb album and includes guests Chris Duncan,  Jenny Thomas singing the beautiful Last Farewell to Stirling, and Alex Legg singing What a Day it's Been. The tunes are Scottish traditional and recent compositions from  members of the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, and features many tunes played on their New Zealand tour
The accompanying book provides notation for all tunes played on the CD.
Book size A4, contains 28 pages, music, chords and information on the tunes.

Quantity:     CD  Price  $25    MSFC3 bk
Quantity:     Book  Price  $15    MSFC3 cd
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Reel Cool

Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and Friends
This is their second album and includes guests Eric Bogle, David South, Sarah Davies and Chris Stone. The tunes are Scottish traditional and recent compositions from Canada and members of the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club. 
The accompanying book provides notation for all tunes played on the CD.
Book size A4, contains 26 pages, music, chords and information on the tunes

Quantity:     CD Price  $25    MSFC2 cd
Quantity:     Book Price  $15    MSFC2 bk
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Red Hot Scots
Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and Friends

This is their first album was recorded in 1999 and includes with the Fiddle Club Tony Allen Piano' Neil Adams Vocals/Guitar, David South Accordion, Chris Duncan Fiddle and John McAuslan Vocals. Tam Lin is brilliant
 

Quantity:     Book Price  $15    MSFC1 bk
Quantity:     CD Price  $25    MSFC1 cd
   
   
   
Back Country Celts
by Wild Trout Downunder


John O'Brien's poems from Around the Boree Log, published in 1921, and read by Kevin Brennan from early recordings. These readings are accompanied by Irish music played on the Uilleann Pipes, the Dord Iseal (Irish bronze age horn), the Gordon Church Pedal Organ and cellos and a viola. Patrick Carroll provided exquisite paintings for the booklet, and there are photos from Trisha Dixon's "Banjo Paterson's High Country".  The tunes included on the CDs wrap themselves around the poems in a complementary manner, while the paintings evoke the bygone time of John O'Brien's poetry. A magical book, well worth having.
Size A5, over 120 minutes of poems and tunes, plus art work, photos,. Tunes include She Moved Thru the Fair, Lagan Love, Fair Cassidy, Leaving Ireland, and Waltzing Matilda played as an air on the viola. Beautiful music.
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Quantity:       Book and 2 CDs Price     $45 WT01  bk /cd 

Chris Duncan CD
Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

Chris Duncan and Muriel Johnson
Sandy Ower The Sea

    CD Price     $25       CDM001 cd

Born in Australia of Scottish descent, Chris is regarded here as one of the finest exponents of the art of playing for dances, performing concerts and conducting fiddle workshops. Muriel is well known worldwide for her work in traditional Scottish music. The two have teamed up to produce a delightful and sensitive CD.
The tracks on this album include all that is best in Scotland's rich heritage of traditional music, brought to life by the combination of fiddle and piano. The album covers a wide range of of styles, from the powerful driving strathspeys and lively reels to swinging jigs and haunting airs.

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

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Danny Spooner

Leviathan
Songs of the Whaling Industry

 CD Price  $25
DS07 cd

 

This wonderful new CD is available from  Celtic Southern Cross

Lyrics for the songs can be found at www.dannyspooner.com

Songs include The Coast of Peru, Rolling Down to old Maui, Wounded Whale, Waterwitch, Queensland Whalers, Wee Pot Stove, Last of the Great Whales and more

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

Danny Spooer CD

Danny Spooner

When a Man's in Love

 CD Price  $25

DS02 cd

 

Danny's  CDs are available from kilmaley@giant.net.au or from Celtic Southern Cross

Lyrics for the songs can be found at www.dannyspooner.com

Sorry, all sold out and no longer available

   

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Danny Spooner

Hard Tack

 CD Price  $25

DS06 cd

 

This CD is available from  Celtic Southern Cross

Lyrics for the songs can be found at www.dannyspooner.com

Songs include Travelling down the Castlereagh, Flash Stockman, Mines of Australia, Lookout Below, On the Wallaby, The Cocky of Bungaree, Springtime it brings on the Shearing, Four Little Johnny Cakes, The Catalpa, Dinki Di, 'ard Tack, Shearing in a Bar, Euabalong Ball

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

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Danny Spooner

Launch Out on the Deep

 CD Price  $25

DS05cd

Danny's  CDs are available from kilmaley@giant.net.au or from Celtic Southern Cross

Lyrics for the songs can be found at www.dannyspooner.com

 

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

Robert Bartlett

Through a Past Darkly

   CD Price   $25 CD109649  


A collection of original and self penned songs from this traditional English singer now living in Adelaide. Drys Bluff illustrated at the top of this page is featured in the song The Logging Track, written after Rob visited us in Liffey and walked through once pristine rain forest now semi denuded. This song deserves to become an anthem against the current destructive logging activities around Tasmania.

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

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Bob Ballantine

Northumbria Down Under

    CD Price   $20

This music is principally dance music from Northumbria with some tunes from Scotland. Bob, whistle, is accompanied by James Rigby, fiddle and guitar, Andy Rigby, harp and flute, and Deanna Devers , accordion.
 You may also contact bobally@optusnet.com.au
 

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

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Southerly Breeze
Irish flute music from Australia

 CD Price   $25 CRACD 002

Six of Australia's top flute players, with excellent accompaniment, have recorded mainly traditional tunes.
   

 Available from Burkes Music Castlemaine

 

The following CDs can be purchased directly from the artists. Celtic Southern Cross does not stock these items but we offer our support for local products.

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Cath Connelly & Greg Hunt

Songline - Thin Place

 

 This rewarding collaboration between Cath on Celtic Harp and Greg on fiddle and mandolin, has culminated in an album of haunting beauty and emotional depth. There are some fine examples of the characteristically Celtic elements of laughter, lament and lullaby on the album, with The Quiet Land of Erin, Brian Boru, Inisheer, Queen's Marsh (Welsh tune) and more. This is a fusion between the Aboriginal concept of song line and the Celtic notion of Thin Place - the veil between the here and the hereafter.

 www.cathy.com.au

Purchase directly from Cathy Connelly

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Colin MacLeod & Rory Sinclair

Roaming Free

 CD Price  $28 includes postage

 Rory Sinclair (guitar) and Colin MacLeod (fiddle) first found musical lilt in their native homeland of Scotland. This experience was enhanced and further shaped by periods of life spent in Germany (Rory) and South Africa (Colin) before the chance encounter at the Australian National Folk Festival in Canberra 2004. This CD covers the lovely range of good traditional Scottish fiddling (with a guitar solo from Rory on The Seagull). Great tunes, from strathspeys to reels to hornpipes and marches and a beautiful slow air John Roy Lyall

 cmacld@yahoo.com                 Purchase directly from Colin

Strathmannan

 

 CD Price  $28 includes postage

 Strathmannan (formerly Fife & Clackmannshire) has played Scottish music in the Canberra region and beyond over many years at dances, festivals, and gatherings. The large and rich repertoire of Scottish fiddle music from traditional and contemporary sources is the inspiration for the tune sets on this excellent CD. With Kate Scott and Mark Jenner on fiddle, Jane Ellis piano and Peter Bucke on bass guitar, the tunes and playing on this CD are just wonderful. From The Hut on Staffin Island to Johnnie Faa and to a tune written by Claire McLaughlin in honour of Sharon Shannon, this CD has heaps of great tunes and lovely playing.

kscott@netspeed.com.au  Purchase directly from Kate in Canberra.

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Bernard Carney

West

CD Price  $25 plus $4 postage

  BJCD04

 

This latest work from top singer-songwriter Bernard Carney.  A true wordsmith, Bernard creates the landscape, the people, the stories as a paean of praise for his adopted home of Western Australia.

With backing from quality musicians like David Hyams, Jenny Simpson, Peter Grayling, this CD is one to go into your collection. The insert is beautifully crafted with words to all the songs, good photos.
Order from   www.bernardcarney.com
Or contact Eleanor Carney, PO Box 2054, Carlisle North, Western Australia, 6101

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Bernard Carney

Feathers & Tributes

CD Price  $25 plus $4 postage

  DH005

Peter Hicks has called Bernard "pretty close to the number on folk entertainer in Australia today". Port Fairy folk festival named him Artist of the Year. With support from David Hyams, Peter Grayling, Ormonde Waters and others, Bernard's excellent guitar playing and warm, clear, emotive vocal style and delivery make this a gem.

Refuge for a Refugee should be required listening in all Australian schools, not to mention cabinet meetings. Other highlights are Devil's Island about the treatment of Aborigines on Rottnest Is., and the lighter moments of Here is the Chorus; My Little Dot Com, and Wine, show the light and shade of this wonderful CD

Order from www.bernardcarney.com
Or contact Eleanor Carney, PO Box 2054, Carlisle North, Western Australia, 6101
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Maireid Sullivan

For Love's Caress - a Celtic Journey

 

Mairead is an outstanding singer living in Melbourne. Her DVD Time After Time has recently been awarded Best Documentary Film at the 7th International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in Greece. This DVD is also available from Mairead's website as are her excellent CDs

www.lyrebirdmedia.com

This CD includes Coast of Malabar, Eileen Aroon, Annie Laurie, Great Silkie, Danu's Land, Leaving of Liverpool

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Maireid Sullivan

Never Drift Apart

 

Mairead is an outstanding singer living in Melbourne. Her DVD Time After Time has recently been awarded Best Documentary Film at the 7th International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in Greece. This DVD is also available from Mairead's website as are her excellent CDs

www.lyrebirdmedia.com

This CD includes River of Tears, Rocks of Bawn, Curlew's Song, In the Garden, Across the Borderline, Go From my Window, When I was on Horseback, Verdant Braes of Skreen, All About Love, Never Drift Apart

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Maireid Sullivan

Dancer

 

Mairead is an outstanding singer living in Melbourne. Her DVD Time After Time has recently been awarded Best Documentary Film at the 7th International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in Greece. This DVD is also available from Mairead's website as are her excellent CDs

www.lyrebirdmedia.com

This CD includes Eriskay Love Lilt, Sally Gardens, Connamara Cradle Song, She Moved Through the Fair, Dancer, Time, I Believe in Love, Feeling Wings, Colour Me, An'Dro (instrumental), Bringing it all the way Home, 10 Times

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Julie McGonigal

Wintermusic

CD Price  $22 incl.p&p

 

Wintermusic is a compilation of original, contemporary and traditional songs and instrumental music from the 1993 Mists of Guyra and the 1995 Carried on the Wind, plus two new original compositions especially recorded for this album. There is also an interview with Julie about her musical life.

Two of Julie's most popular compositions, Mists of Guyra and Hern Waltz, have earned their place in this compilation, along with her arrangement of tunes of the American Civil War era.
This album can be obtained directly from Julie at
JulieMc@FolkRag.org

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Us Not Them Live

One Man's Weeds - Another Man's Flowers

  CD Price  $25

ROW02 cd

Chloe Roweth (Vocals, Mandolin) and Jason Roweth (Vocals and Guitar) perform live songs of separation, struggle, strength and rejuvenation. Chloe's version of the Exile of Erin is one of the most powerful songs you will ever hear.

Please order directly from usnotthem@speedlink.com.au

Peter Hicks

Our World is not for Sale

CD Price $25

Released in 2002, Peter is writing and playing exciting music. Please Email him for this album at glazfolk@austarnet.com.au or visit his web site at http://home.austarnet.com.au/glazfolk
The album includes the track Ordinary People  which won the Folk Federation of Tasmania Song Awards 2001. 
It is a multimedia E-book  as well.
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Mike Raine

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 CD Price  $25

His latest album featuring songs he has entered in the Tasmanian Folk Federation Song Writing Awards plus others.

You can purchase this CD directly from Mike Raine at illusion@netspace.net.au  

Mike Raine

The Ranelagh Collection

 CD Price  $25

Mike Raine is a long serving member of  top Tasmanian band The Cockies. These two albums are solo works that feature Mike's own compositions and his quirky sense of humour. Mike is not completely folk but has a strong folk background.

You can purchase this CD directly from Mike Raine at illusion@netspace.net.au  

Mike Raine

The Quintessential Shallow Man

 CD Price  $25

More unique and quirky songs from Mike

You can purchase this CD directly from Mike Raine at illusion@netspace.net.au  or write to Mike at

Audio Illusion
27 Kellaway St
Ranelagh, Tasmania, 7109   

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Martin Pearson

Too close for comfort

 

Martin Pearson is unique and words on paper (or screen) don't do him justice. Email him to buy this terrifically funny CD and you'll find out at first hand. I mean, this is the man who brought you The Chook from Snowy River.

music@7thdimension.com.au  or pearsonmartin@hotmail.com

Martin Pearson

The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien

  

The amazing trilogy of The Lost Grocery Lists, The Unfinished Spelling Errors and the Digitally Re-Mastered Thumbprint. 

One of the funniest live shows of this century. 

   pearsonmartin@hotmail.com

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Dale Jacobsen
Hammer On

CD Price $25

Dale is a well respected musician from Maleny in Queensland. Her three instruments featured on this CD, Hammered Dulcimer, Appalachian Dulcimer and the treble bowed psaltery, were all made by her. The tunes vary from traditional and celtic tunes to modern tunes like Music for a Found Harmonium. Please contact Dale directly for this CD at Email srmusic@ozemail.com.au
Web Site http://members.ozemail.com.au/`daleljacobsen/
Ros and Steve Barnes

Steve and Rosalind Barnes
Bridge of Wings

CD costs $25 

Produced with the support of Western Australia Arts Council this CD features two excellent song writing and singing performers in Rosalind and Steve.


This CD can be purchased direct from Steve and Ros by emailing them  barnes.s@per.dem.csiro.au
 

 

 

Andy Rigby and Friends
Andology Vol. 1 Tunes of the Andys
Original and traditional tunes on whistles, harps and other things, featuring penny whistle kwela jive music
 You can purchase this CD direct from Andy at arharp2002@yahoo.com.au

Mick Flanagan
The Galway Rambler
Mick is a fine singer from Gort in Ireland, but resident in Tasmania for many years, now in George Town. On his working travels around Australia he has met many fine characters and has many stories to tell. Many of these songs are written by Mick and are interspersed with great traditional songs like Flower of Sweet Strabane.

 You can purchase this CD direct from Mick on (03) 6382 1926 or by post 12 Esplanade South, George Town Tasmania 7253
 CD Price $20 ( or 2 for $60 or even 3 for $100)

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