{"id":6135,"date":"2014-01-21T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T00:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T00:30:31","slug":"five-favorites-irish-folk-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6135","title":{"rendered":"Five Favorites: Irish Folk Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/fivefavorites.jpg\" alt=\"Five Favorites\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another foray into my eclectic tastes in music!<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>One<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ll Tell Me Ma&#8221; by Van Morrison and the Chieftains.<\/strong>  This is the song that spawned my search for Irish music on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\" title=\"YouTube\">YouTube<\/a> this weekend.  My parents have the album on both CD and cassette tape so I grew up with it.  Doing a search on just the song &#8220;I&#8217;ll Tell Me Ma&#8221; led me to several other groups.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Van Morrison and The Chieftains- I Tell Me Ma\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M5-jKJ-QDEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Two<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Star of the County Down&#8221; by Orthodox Celts.<\/strong>  A Serbian band singing Irish and Scottish ballads &#8212; I love the harmonies which remind me of Eastern Orthodox church music.  This is also a favorite tune of mine.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Orthodox Celts - Star Of The County Down\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HEt2XdN_TbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Three<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Rocky Road to Dublin&#8221; by the High Kings.<\/strong>  Apparently, I was under a rock 5 years ago (or living in Montana) when these boys burst onto the folk scene.  They&#8217;ve got a pedigree for folk music &#8212; one is the son of one of the Clancy Brothers and two performed in Riverdance in addition to being on Broadway.  Yet another has toured with other bands.  I love their version of this song.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The High Kings, Rocky Road to Dublin\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0QdbeM2JWYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Contrast this with the version that the Rolling Stones did with the Chieftains which has some riffs of &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; in it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ROLLING STONES &amp; CHIEFTAINS - THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7P3t8_5hOj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Four<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Little Beggarman&#8221; by the High Kings.<\/strong>  I love the <em>puirt \u00e0 beul<\/em> (&#8220;mouth singing&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s kind of scat-singing in jazz) and the little bits of choreography in this one.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The High Kings the Beggarman\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hl6JWSi8jXo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Five<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Marie&#8217;s Wedding&#8221; by the High King.<\/strong>  More lovely <em>puirt \u00e0 beul<\/em> in this one and I love that they&#8217;re doing it conversationally in the beginning.  You also get to hear the individual voices which is another wonderful thing about their version.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The High Kings - Maries Wedding\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_y1EOWBr78E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Chieftains version with Van Morrison.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marie&#039;s Wedding - Van Morrison and The Chieftans\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLA7SjheONk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Go love up <a href=\"http:\/\/moxiewife.com\" title=\"Hallie\">Hallie<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another foray into my eclectic tastes in music! One &#8220;I&#8217;ll Tell Me Ma&#8221; by Van Morrison and the Chieftains. This is the song that spawned my search for Irish music on YouTube this weekend. My parents have the album &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1AX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}