AN BHANALTRA
Songs in Irish Gaelic
CONAL O DONNELL & others
Folktracks, 1975, FSB-60-003
Folktracks was Peter Kennedy's label to commercialize his own recordings. He worked for the BBC. Here we have the original recordings of the songs selected for the book ''Folksongs of Britain and Ireland.
These singers are traditional singers from Donegal mainly, from the gaeltacht where Irish is spoken daily by everybody. It's a very nice collection with various ways of singing from men and women. Most of the songs are introduced in English. Conal O'Donnell sings ten songs out of nineteen. It's a pity the edition was so poor (just the one sheet of paper); a lack of means I suppose.
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