Macalla 2

 

MACALLA 2

Gael-Linn, 1987, CEF 122

This is the second and last album recorded by a big band of women called Macalla. The first one was issued in 1984 for International Women's Day.
Here there are 18 of them with 5 singers, 8 fiddle players, 2 flute players, one keyboard player, one concertina player, one harp player and one bodhran player. Some became quite well known later like Mary Mac Namara or Catherine Mac Evoy. There are 6 instrumental sets and  5 songs all in Irish coming from Ulster (Donegal) and Connaught. I find the use of the keyboard a bit too much sometimes but Patsy Broderick is good at it. The repertory includes one waltz from Donegal and a set of barn dances among the usual sets of jigs and reels. There are not much information but a short text in Irish. 

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