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Angelina Carberry: An Traidisiún Beo

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Guest artists:
Peter Carberry: accordion
Martin Quinn: accordion
Laoise Kelly: harp
John Blake: guitar & piano
Martin Gavin: bodrhan

We are delighted to re-issue this classic recording of banjo music, first released in 2005 to great critical acclaim. Angelina  is the renowned banjo playing member of one of Ireland’s foremost musical families, comes up with her solo album,
That album received great critical acclaim and this release seems destined to continued the upward drive by this wonderful young musician. On this album she is joined by some of Ireland’s finest sidemen, to create a mighty blast of brilliant Irish traditional music on the banjo.
Angelina’s unmistakable sound is at times dark and earthy, coupled with a weighted deeply grounded rhythm. Her style echoes uncannily that of her Grandfather Kevin, fifty years ago when he played for ceildhes and house dances with his brother Peter on pipes, around Keenagh, Co. Longford. She’s joined  by her husband Martin, John Blake & Laoise Kelly amongst others. Great album in a great looking Digipac.

Audio

Track 1: The Buck From the Mountain

Track 2: The Log Cabin

Track 3: Kitty Come Down to Limerick

Track 4: Paddy Lynn's Delight

Track Listing

1. Dermot Grogan’s Jig / Hardiman’s Fancy
2. The Brown Coffin / Paddy Lynn’s Delight
3. The Girl from the House / The Dawn Chorus / O’Sullivan’s March
4. The Miller of Drone / Pauleen Conneely’s  / Finbarr Dwyer’s
5. Poll Ha’penny / Seán O’Duibhir an Ghleanna
6. Farewell to Gurteen / John Joe Gardiner’s
7. Paddy Kelly’s / The Log Cabin / Mayor Harrison’s Fedora
8. Paddy Fahy’s / The Buck from the Mountain
9. Finbarr Dwyer’s / The Dogs Among the Bushes
10. Bold Doherty / Kitty Come Down to Limerick
11. Bonnie Anne’s / Rogha Thomáis Uí Dhubhda / Quinn’s
12. The Princess Royal

Also available from Copperplate
Angelina Carberry: Pluckin' Mad
Angelina Carberry & Dan Brouder: A Waltz for Joy
Angelina Carberry & Dan Brouder: Back in Time

Press Reviews

The Irish Echo         Best Irish Traditional Albums of 2005     CEOL Column By Earle Hitchner
#6 AN TRAIDISIUN BEO, by Angelina Carberry ( ReelTrad RTR 002)
"Memories From the Holla" in 2001 and "Angelina Carberry and Martin Quinn" in 2003 were recordings that featured Angelina's beguiling ability on tenor banjo, and this solo CD from 2005 will only bolster the respect for her nimble, lyrical, unhurried, clear-stream playing style. Ireland's spreading neo-trad movement, in which ego-flexing invention takes a backseat to hard-core playing, has not yet taken firm foothold in America, but this recording may become an influential exemplar. Half of the dozen tracks are just banjo and accompaniment, whether John Blake's guitar and piano or Martin Gavin's bodhran. Each of these virtuosos shows how versatile the instrument can be, and Knocknacarra, Galway's Angelina Carberry also demonstrates that ease isn't the same as easy. Joy flows through everything she plays.

The Irish Times
Angelina Carberry’s downright languorous solo CD is a snapshot of a banjo player who’s not in a hurry – surely a threatened species these days. With a family history steeped in traditional music, Carberry goes for the jugular of a tune, surgically dissecting it until she reaches its pulsing core, only to then repair whatever inefficiencies might lurk within, assisted by her husband Martin Quinn and father Peter, both on box, and the eternally inventive John Blake on guitar. The jig set headlined by ‘The Girl of the House’ is a lesson in ensemble playing, the banjo stepping into the limelight only when the tune calls for it, though her solos hint at a musician who thrives best in the live session.Siobhán Long

SCOTLAND on SUNDAYSun 22 Jan 2006
Brought up in Manchester's rich Irish community, this talented young woman now lives back in the Emerald Isle, in a house full of wee children already playing traditional music. Carberry plays the banjo - the fretted bodhran to its detractors - but one would have to lack eardrums to find this album anything less than a delight. With players the calibre of harpist Laoise Kelly, John Blake on piano and guitar, father Peter on accordion and Martin Gavins rock-steady bodhran, this is beautifully paced, artfully performed and downright happy collection of reels, jigs, highlands and hornpipes. NORMAN CHALMERS