We Sing Star Wars

As you may have noticed, Fred and I call your attention to videos which are often both really musical and really off the edge of what you might have been expecting, for one reason or another. That works for this -- Star Wars theme run through Scottish fiddle, acid jazz, and Club Passim, all at the same time, by Hanneke Cassel and friends. Bound to give you a smile or even an outright laugh.






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Music Road: now playing: Hanneke Cassel and Christopher Lewis: Calm the Raging Sea

Boston Celtic Music festival

The Boston Celtic Music Festival is coming up this year on January 11th and 12th. It's a fine celebration of traditional and innovative work of musicians from the varied Celtic genres. In this clip from BCM Fest 2007, there's Kieran Jordan's innovative Irish dancing (subject of some discussion among you tube commenters) to tunes played by Natalie Haas on cello, Emma Beaton on cello, and Hanneke Cassel on fiddle.

Singing in Irish: Cathie Ryan

Fred (and other readers),
I'm going to have to think about that a bit to come up with a comment about Bob Dylan in Scots Gaelic.Many Irish and Scots artists have covered Dylan -- but they usually sing in English. Really fine versions of Dylan songs by Mary Black, Altan, Danu, Dervish, many others.


While I am thinking about this, I would not want you to be without a video. The people in your post are talking of Scots Gaelic, and she's singing in Irish, of which Scots Gaelic is an offshoot, but anyway, here is a link to a quicktime video of Cathie Ryan singing PeataBeagDoMhathar.

Hanneke Cassel: reels

Speaking of Hanneke Cassel (see Cathie Ryan post, below) she's a very fine fiddle player and composer, and the former US Scottish national fiddle champion -- and an amazing player to see live. This is from a gig at the historic Club Passim in Cambridge, Masschusetts, in May of 2006

For some reason the embed function doesn't seem to be working consistently.
here's the link, too