|
"A most interesting & original player..."
MÁIRE is one of Ireland’s most important and influential traditional musicians,
described by Live Ireland as “the greatest Celtic harper of our age” and by the late Derek Bell
as “the most interesting & original player of the Irish harp today”. She grew up in a well-known West
Cork musical family who were active in the Cork Pipers’ Club and was already proficient in a variety of other instruments
by the time that she began to play the harp at the age of eleven. Using her knowledge of the idiom of the living oral Irish
tradition, she developed a variety of new techniques, particularly in relation to ornamentation, with the aim of establishing
an authentically traditional style of harping - “a single-handed reinvention of the harp”. Her originality
was quickly recognised and she made a number of TV and radio broadcasts as a teenager, going on to win the All-Ireland and
Pan-Celtic Harp Competitions on several occasions. In 1985 she recorded the first harp album ever to concentrate on traditional
Irish dance music, The New-Strung Harp. Her name, by the way is pronounced Moira
Nee Ha-ha-sig
"If Máire wasn’t
around, Irish harping would be so much the poorer: her work restores the harp to its true voice."
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
| Temple Records TP019, 1985. re-release on CD COMD2019 1997 |
|
|
track listing
|
|
Charles O'Connor/Father Hanly
Ó Ho Nighean, É Ho Nighean
Madam Maxwell
The Pullet/The Volunteer
An Spéic Seoigheach
The Humours of Ballyloughlin
Hinderó Hóró
The Bantry Girl's Lament
The Gander in the Praitie Hole/
The Queen of the Rushes
Carolan's Farewell to Music
The Fisherman's Hornpipe/
The Cuckoo's Nest
The Boys of Malin/
|
| . |
the official website of
this incredibly fine
Irish harper
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
