Bodhrán Performances

Pure Bodhrán is a two CD set that showcases a different performer on every track, nineteen to be exact. Josh and Kirk have provided a review.

These are groups and albums that people have recommended to me.

Are your favorites missing? If so, let me know.

• Altan (also here)
  • Harvest Storm Green Linnet 1117.
  • Island Angel, Green Linnet 1137.
  • The Red Crow, Green Linnet 1109.
• Arcady, After The Ball, Shanachie 79077.
• Augusta Heritage Center Irish Week Concerts
  Mark Stone recommends the 1992, 1993, and 1994 tapes, which feature Jesse Winch, Albert Alfonso, and Mark himself. The tapes are available from Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV 26241, (304) 636-1903.
• Baal Tinne
  Privately published: Kevin Rice, 2540 Happy Hollow Rd. Glenview, IL 60025-1117.
  • ...About Time
  • The Haunting
• Baltiorum, The Cat Among the Pigeons
  Privately published: See Baal Tine for address.
• Battlefield Band
  
  • Across the Borders, Temple Records COMD2065 Iain MacDonald (a former member) has a pretty amazing bodhrán solo on track 13.
  • Threads, Temple Records COMD2061
• Mary Bergin
  • Feadóga Stáin, Shanachie 79006.
  • Feadóga Stáin 2, Shanachie 79083.
• Bothy Band
  
  • Out of the Wind and Into the Sun, Green Linnet 3013.
  • The Best of the Bothy Band, Green Linnet 3001.
    There's some lovely drumming in Music in the Glen/The Humours of Scariff/The Otter's Holt.
• Celtic Thunder (discography)
  • The Light of Other Days, Green Linnet 1086.
  • Hard New York Days (Rego R3035, Kells Music KN-9503).
• The Chieftains
  • Music from Ballad of the Irish Horse, Shanachie 79051.
  • Chieftains 3, CC 10, Shanachie 79023, ILPS 9379.
  • Chieftains 4, CC 14, Shanachie 79024, ILPS 9380.
• Robbie O'Connell, Never Learned to Dance, Green Linnet 1124.
• Kevin Conneff, The Week Before Easter (Claddagh Records).
• Seamus Connolly, Notes from my Mind, Green Linnet 1137.
• Kevin Crawford, 'd' flute album, Green Linnet 1162.
• De Dannan
  • Selected Jigs, Reels, And Songs, Shanachie 79001.
  • Jacket of Batteries, Green Linnet 3053.
• Seamus Egan, A Week in January.
• Declan Folan, Skin and Bow, Sound Records, Grattan Street, Sligo, phone 353 071 43784
• Four Men and a Dog
  • Barking Mad, Green Linnet 3085.
  • Shifting Gravel, Green Linnet 3084.
• Mance Grady, self-titled, privately published. Review
  94 Angell Road, Cumberland, RI 02864
  phone (401) 333-2293, e-mail BodhranPro@aol.com
• Steaphan Hannigan, Natural Selection, Ossian OSS 58.
• Tommy Hayes
  • An Ras, Mulligan Records (5 Middle Street Court, Middle Street, Galway, Ireland. phone/fax: +353 (0)91 56 49 61)
  • A Room in the North, Claddagh Records.
• Eileen Ivers, self-titled, Green Linnet 1139.
• Kila, Mind The Gap.
• Donal Lunny, self-titled, CEF 133.
• Michael McKinley, The Executive Session, Stonington Island Records.
  Stonington Island Records, 145 Water Street, Stonington, CT 06378.
• Glenn Morgan, Southwind, Fishbite Recordings, 1992
• Colm Murphy, An Bodhrán, Gael-Linn CEFCD 175.
• Stockton's Wing. Please suggest albums.
• Christy Moore, Smoke and Strong Whiskey, Columbia/Newberry.
• The Rights of Man: The Concert for Joseph Doherty, SIF 1111.
• Sean Ryan, Take the Air, CEF 142.
• Mícháel O Súilleabháin, The Dolphin's Way, Virgin/Venture 90651.
• The Sound of Coleman Country, privately produced for the Coleman Heritage Center, County Sligo; phone 011-353-71-82599.
• St. James's Gate, St. James's Gate IV
  Privately published: contact Cliff Moses at (210) 492-5748 or cmoses@swri.edu.

Other interesting performances

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Josh Mittleman bodhran@ceolas.org

Kirk Witmer khwitmer@juno.com

Last updated 24 Dec 2000