PAUL
WINTER & FRIENDSPAUL
WINTER & FRIENDS
"CELTIC SOLSTICE"
Living Music
This is not the first time that Paul Winter is very interested in Celtic music. He and Paul Halley worked with Nóirín Ní Riain on her debut album for Living Music, Celtic Soul, in 1996. Then, when he was planning the annual Summer Solstice celebration, he had the idea to title the event "Celtic Solstice". Later, he met people like Davy Spillane, one of the greatest Irish pipers. The Celtic Solstice event was very successful and soon they had enough material for an album. This CD, then, is the result of an intense collaboration between Irish and American musicians during a celebration within the largest gothic cathedral, New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Winter, of course, plays his famous soprano sax. With him are Eileen Ivers (fiddle), Davy Spillane (Uilleann pipe), Karan Casey (vocals), Joanie Madden (whistle and flute), Jerry O'Sullivan (pipe), Paul Halley (pipe organ and piano), Jamey Haddad (percussion), Zan McLeod (guitar), Carol Thompson (Celtic harp and Welsh triple harp), Austin Mcgrath (bodhran) and Bakithi Kumalo (bass). Celtic Solstice contains new material and also new arrangements of traditional tunes. This is, in two words, glorious music!
M. MONTES
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