ceol

Irish Traditional Music

Last english translation : 06 30 2000
Last update in french version : 07, 08 2001

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The band : introduction to the band CEOL

Ceol's new CD : "The last order" : Infos, demo files (MP3 and abc), all you need to buy CEOL's CD

Links : Cool irish music related sites

Ceol

Jean-Michel LEGUT Bodhran	Ceol , simply means "music" in Gaelic. The Band of the same name plays, as in every popular tradition, spontaneous music. The band, formed in 1991, invites you to enjoy dancing, poetry, or a session in a pub.	Jean BANWARTH Bouzouki, Guitar, Pedal board

Daniel SAULNIER Uilleann pipes, Tin whistle	Sylvain BAROU wooden flutes, low whistles, wind synth. E.D.M.I Production Ceol offers you their arrangements of a wide selection of tunes, including Irish ballads, baroque influenced compositions, contemporary pieces, and jigs, reels, and hornpipes... which are the main features of Irish traditional music	Philippe SALA 4 & 5 strings banjo, Guitar, Vocals

Ceol's CD "The last order"

The CD of CEOL is finally available! You can order it while clicking above on the picture. It will be necessary then for you to send us a postal mail (Jean Banwarth, 6 Rue Malakoff 38000 Grenoble) with your name, your address and 19 euros or a check to "EDMI".

Tracks list :

A night to Aran island / Cliffs of slieve league (reels)

As I roved out (song)

Woodcock / Harding’s / Petit nuage (jigs)

Sylvie (song)

East west banjo / Sean Smith’s / Holly bush / Virginia reel (reels)

Mallai Chroch Shli / Mother’s delight (slow air & slow reel)

The endless night / Clare’s reel (reels)

Johnny minor (song)

Vivement vendredi / I’m a poor lonesome fiddler (slow reel & reel)

The dark island / Jig of Slurs / Duncan Johnstone / P. M. George Allan (slow march, jig & hornpipes)

The ravelled hank of Yarn / Bredan Mc Glinchey’s (reels)

51 minutes of music, with many new compositions from :

Daniel GOURDON (A night to Aran island, Cliffs of slieve league and I’m a poor lonesome fiddler)

Jean BANWARTH (Petit nuage and Vivement vendredi)

Sylvain BAROU (Clare’s reel)

Philippe SALA (East west banjo and The endless night)

Audio files and scores

	"A night to Aran island/Cliffs of Slieve league" MP3 (Time : 2,05 zipped file : 351 ko)
	"Sylvie" MP3 (Time : 1,37 zipped file : 273 ko)
	"Duncan Johnstone" MP3 (Time : 1,00 zipped file : 167 ko)
	"As I roved out" MP3 (Time : 1,16 zipped file : 214 ko)
	"Virginia reel" MP3 (Time : 0,32 zipped file : 91 ko)
	"Mallai Chroch Shli / Mother’s delight" MP3 (Time : 1,20 zipped file : 223 ko)
	"Vivement vendredi" Abc (Tune + chords) 0,4 ko
	"Petit nuage" Abc (Tune + chords) 0,3 ko

You can listen abc files with Abcmus and print them with Abc2win. If you have TablEdit, it will be possible to you to import this file, to listen to it, to print it and even to transpose it directly in tablature (with the tuning you want)
To read MP3 files on a PC, you can download "Winamp" by clicking below. Nice and freeware !

Links

General purpose

A must-see site for everything concerning Irish Music : CEOLAS (English)
Irish-music.net for Traditional Irish Music CDs, festivals, musicians, summer schools, and much more . . .
Dominique Renaudin's Home page : infos (Irish and related music sessions in French speaking countries, Ireland and worldwide). From his point, you will be able to reach the French-speaking mailing list about Irish music (French/English)
More information is available on Erick Falc'her-Poyroux's page : He gives you his academic works about Irish music. Precious informations... (French/English)
Ancient music of Ireland. The site is especially centered on harp music, but you will find also numerous other things like midi files (French/English)
The Sessioneer : infos, tunes... (English)
Information and links concerning Irish music. Excellent ! (English)

Publishers

Claddagh : CDs (English)
Coop Breizh : CDs, books, scores, tabs... (French)
Dara : CDs (English)
To find specific titles or references, try the index of Green Linnet albums. Possibility to listen to whole tracks in Real Audio format (English)
Greentrax : CDs (English)
Mally.com : Scores, books, CDs, videos, Strings... Very good shop (English)
For the scores and methods : E-mail Bay editions. They publish some of the hundreds... Nearly too much ! The utilized tablature system is a strangely enough that one nearly finds only at Mel Bay : the numbers are placed between the strings (English)
Ossian: a very important publisher in the world of Irish music. You can order there what you want, but the site is not very attractive... It is just a catalog that has the advantage to be up to date (English)
Shanachie : CDs (English)
Waltons : Books and scores (English)

Search engines

A Search engine to find an irish tune from his title (or a part of his title). Useful ! (English)
A search engine to find song (English)
Folk Music Index : many tunes by title, author, interpreter... (English)

Magazines

Irish Music : A specialized magazine (English)
Trad Mag : One speaks there very often of Irish music, even though it is not the only landed topic (French)

Musicians Homepage

Michel Sikiotakis : a great french flute player. He play with Taxi Mauve, Mugar and Fubu (French/English)
Christian Génieux : A friend of mine, accordionist playing with the french band "Pure Malt" (French)

French Bands

Alérions (French)
Broken String (French)
Distant Shores : Irish traditionnal music from France.
Dun : The top !
Eridan' : Folk band with strong irish influences.
Garlic Bread : Irish traditionnal music(Bouzouki, flute, fiddle and vocal.
Gwenwed (French)
Inishowen : Friends from Grenoble. Folk/Rock irish music
Irish Coffee Trio : Fiddle, flute and guitar. No homesite for the moment, but an E-Mail.
Irish Tabarnak : Another band from Grenoble. Pub songs.
Mugar : Mixture of Irish music and Kabyle music (French)
Taxi Mauve (French)
Tonynara : Compositions with irish influences. Very "scenic" band