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Grosse Isle, the island in the St Lawrence River in Québec, was famously an immigration/quarantine depot for Irish immigrants escaping the Great Famine. Grosse Isle, the musical trio, are three skilful musicians: Sophie Lavoie (fiddle, piano, vocal), André Marchand (guitar, vocal) and Fiachra O’Regan (uilleann pipes, whistle, banjo).
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Secret Garden is an Irish-Norwegian band specialised in new instrumental music, led by the duo consisting of Irish violinist and singer Fionnuala Sherry and Norwegian composer, arranger and pianist Rolf Lovland.
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Clannad are an Irish family band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal by siblings Ciaran, Pol, and Moya Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan. They have adopted various musical styles throughout their history, including folk, folk rock, traditional Irish, Celtic and new-age music, often incorporating elements of smooth jazz and Gregorian chant.
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Clannad are an Irish family band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal by siblings Ciaran, Pol, and Moya Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan. They have adopted various musical styles throughout their history, including folk, folk rock, traditional Irish, Celtic and new-age music, often incorporating elements of smooth jazz and Gregorian chant.
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Ajeet is a world music artist weaving inspiration from Irish folk to mystical and meditative soundscapes. The band come together from Spain, Ireland and the United States to offer a musical experience which transcends boundaries and takes listeners on a journey through song. Soaring harmonies and poetic lyrics meet harp, African and Latin percussion, Acoustic guitar and Irish instrumentation for a musical exchange with deep roots in melody and sonic texture.
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Spirit of the West were a Canadian folk rock band from North Vancouver, active from 1983 to 2016. They were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.
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Blaggards are an American four-piece Celtic rock band from Houston, Texas. The Houston Press has described them as "H-town's heir to the emerald throne of Phil Lynott and Shane MacGowan".
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Live At Cooper Hall is a collection of 16 songs compiled from two stunning live concert performances by award-winning Irish folk singer Cara Dillon, accompanied by Sam Lakeman on Steinway grand piano and guitar. It was recorded without distraction not even an audience during the first Coronavirus lockdown in July 2020 at Cooper Hall in Somerset by Grammy winning recording engineer Dom Monks and broadcast worldwide to fans online. The extraordinary circumstances of the concert only add to the reflective and intimate nature of the performance Cara hearing the songs she's sung a thousand times through new ears and understanding, for what felt like the very first time, the heartbreak and longing for home so evident in the lyrics. This album exquisitely captures a special shared moment between two of folk music's finest performers in a career-spanning acoustic set, and features two previously unreleased songs.