Dorian Recordings

DOR-90248

WALKING STONES

A CELTIC SOJOURN

Ken Kolodner, Hammer Dulcimer
with
Laura Risk, Fiddle & Robin Bullock, Guitar
DOR-90248 Cover - 18764 Bytes

If you travel the Highlands, Hebrides and Northern Isles, you will likely see mysterious neolithic formations called Standing Stones. Ireland has Standing Stones as well, often taken to be early Bronze Age.
Tall and slender, powerful and stout, grey and brown and mottled with lichen, scarred by a millennium of graffiti, the stones pepper the landscape, remains of astranomical observatories, or religious rites, or navigational systems (who can say?) of times and people long forgotten.
Accepted by the Celts as homes to Fairies and sites of great battles between heroes and foes, the Standing Stones are known by name: The Ring of Brodgar, Long Meg, The Nine Maidens, The Twelve Apostles, The Standing Stones of Callanish ...
Some folks say the Standing Stones get up and walk, they drink from nearby lochs, moving freely over the land --- returning to their enigmatic arrangements before the first rays of the rising sun, you can see them now, poised between stillness and motion, ready to stir and venture forth from their ancient circles.
-- Linda McKay Feldmann

[ 1.] Father Kelly's - Father Kelly (Irish)
[ 2.] Farrell O'Gara's - Trad. Irish/Scottish
[ 3.] Richard Dwyer's - Richard Dwyer (Irish American)

[ 4.] Clock Waltz - Trad. Quebecois
[ 5.] Princess Beatrice (Slow Air) - Trad. Scottish
[ 6.] Loudons Bonnie Braes Strathspey - Trad. Scottish
[ 7.] Princess Beatrice Hornpipe - Trad. Scottish

[ 8.] The Queen's Polka - Trad. Irish
[ 9.] The Bornish Polka - Trad. Irish

[10.] Walking Stones - Ken Kolodner
[11.] Caspian Lake - Ken Kolodner

[12.] The Bee's Wing Hornpipe - James Hill (Scottish)
[13.] Untitled Hornpipe - Trad. Irish

[14.] Dances des Foins - Trad. Quebecois
[15.] Reel Beatrice - Trad. Quebecois
[16.] Pierre n'as pas de culotte - Trad. Quebecois

[17.] Kevin Keegan's Waltz - (Irish American)

[18.] Ian Robertson - Tom Anderson (Shetland)

[19.] The Border Crossing - Ken Kolodner
[20.] The Panhandle - Ken Kolodner
[21.] The Cuckoo's Nest - Trad. Irish/Scottish/American

[22.] Tom Morrison's Hornpipe - Tom Morrison (Irish)
[23.] The Home Ruler - Frank McCallum (Irish)

[24.] The Green Gates - Trad. Irish
[25.] Tam Lin - Davey Arthur (Irish)
[26.] The Silver Spire - Trad. Irish

[27.] The Rakes of Kildare - Trad. Irish
[28.] The Mist Covered Mountain - Junior Crehan (Irish)
[29.] Lad O'Bierne's - Lad O'Bierne (Irish)

[30.] Carolan's Draught - Turlough O'Carolan

[31.] Louis Waltz - Trad. Canadian

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