...a twenty-voice ensemble with wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire, based in Columbus, Ohio.

Celtic Voyages

Choral songs from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Appalachia

The Magpie Consort, with Spencer Elliott (guitar & banjo)

Suggested Donation $20 (includes $2.60 s&h)

(Click on selected songs for mp3 extracts)

1. Tha mi sgìth (Pulling the bracken) - trad. Gaelic arr. Peter Hill
2. Gràdh geal mo chridhe (The bright love of my heart) - trad. Gaelic arr. Sheena Phillips
3. My love is like a red, red rose - trad. Scottish arr. Michael Buck
4. Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon - trad. Scottish arr. Sheena Phillips
5. Màiri Bhàn’s Wedding - Gaelic song arr. Sheena Phillips
6. The young man’s dream - trad. Irish arr. Sheena Phillips & Spencer Elliott (instr.)
7. She moved through the fair - Irish ballad arr. Timothy Takach
8. Londonderry air - Irish tune arr. Percy Grainger
9. St Patrick’s breastplate - Irish tunes arr. C V Stanford and R V Williams
10. Siúil a rúin (Shule aroon) - trad. Irish arr. Michael McGlynn
11. Barb’ry Ellen - British Isles folk ballad, arr. Stephen Hatfield
12. The Star of the County Down - Irish ballad, arr. Howard Goodall
13. Suo gân (Lullaby) - trad. Welsh arr. Sheena Phillips (instr.)
14. Cariad pur ffyddlon - (Faithful true love) Welsh medley arr. Gareth Glyn
15. Cwm Rhondda - Welsh hymn tune by John Hughes arr. Andrew Hawryluk
16. Down by the salley gardens - trad. Irish arr. Frances Cockburn
17. Wayfaring stranger - Appalachian folk hymn arr. Alice Parker
18. Gloria - from The World Beloved: a Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett
19. Down to the river to pray - trad. Appalachian arr. Sheldon Curry
20. Black is the color - trad. Appalachian arr. Norman Luboff
21. Mist-covered mountains - trad. Scottish / northern English
22. A Phiutrag ‘s a phiuthar (Little sister) - trad. Gaelic arr. Sheena Phillips

Total playing time c. 66 minutes

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