Music and Landscape: Ireland

Irish music often arises out of the landscape, and is cradled by it. A sense of home and family translated into images that give ways into singing and playing of home and family and love, perhaps.

I am writing this at a time of year, in early spring, when because of Saint Patrick's day people all over the world often think of the emerald isle, as it’s called. The landscape, though, often takes on aspects other than emerald , as it does here. These inspire just as many songs and tunes, too.




music to go along with these ideas
Music Road: exiles return: karan casey & john doyle
Music Road: now playing: Athena Tergis
Music Road: The Clancy Legacy
Music Road: Cherish The Ladies: A Star in the East

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Music and late summer

Late summer can be its own season, resting between the energy of high midsummer days and the quiet turn toward autumn that's coming. Time for reflection, time for considering new directions. Emily Smith stepped outside her house in the southwestern part of Scotland one summer evening and found all those things. She caught them in a fine song called Sunset Hymn, which is on her recording Too Long Away. Photograph above is of a moment at evening on Carlingford Bay, Louth, in the Republic of Ireland you may also wish to see Music Road: music and connection: celebrating summer Music Road: late summer: two for the road Music Road: Songs for an Easter weekend and Delicious Baby's Photo Friday, where travelers offer new insights to the world each Friday

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Photographing music: Celtic Colours

The music of Cape Breton is a unique mix of Scottish and Irish music with dashes of other cultures added in, shaped by wind and water, landscape, and mountains, seasoned with the laughter, tears, history, and welcoming spirits of the islanders. It’s engaging music, wherever you happen to hear it, especially so the island itself. The Celtic Colours Festival includes more than one hundred events in venues ranging from The Big Fiddle concert hall in Sydney [okay, it has a more formal name, but once you’ve seen the giant sized fiddle out front...] to the firehouse in Judique, from school rooms to churches, from one end of the island to the other, and this year's festival begins today. Artists from all over the Celtic world as well as many Cape Breton musicians will be there. I’ll not be making it back to the island for the festival this year, but these are a few of my favorite images from years past.

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Photographing music: hands

another way to think about music...

from gigs in Cambridge, Austin, Cape Breton, Glasgow, Newburyport

care to try putting names to any of the hands here?

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