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37704114 | Play | The Butterfly | 00:00 Tools | |
37704115 | Play | Castle Kelly | 00:00 Tools | |
37704116 | Play | Carolan's Farewell to Music | 00:00 Tools | |
37704117 | Play | Carolan's Welcome | 00:00 Tools | |
37704118 | Play | Carolan's Quarrel With the Landlady | 00:00 Tools | |
37704120 | Play | Blind Mary | 00:00 Tools | |
37704119 | Play | Londonderry Air | 00:00 Tools | |
37704121 | Play | Sheebeg Sheemore | 00:00 Tools | |
37704123 | Play | The Munster Cloak | 00:00 Tools | |
37704122 | Play | Greensleeves | 00:00 Tools | |
37704124 | Play | Bridget Cruise | 00:00 Tools | |
37704126 | Play | The Grenadier and the Lady | 00:00 Tools | |
37704125 | Play | Lady Maxwell | 00:00 Tools | |
37704127 | Play | The Orange Rogue | 00:00 Tools | |
37704128 | Play | La valse pour les petites jeunes filles | 00:00 Tools | |
37704130 | Play | Arran Boat Song | 00:00 Tools | |
37704129 | Play | Mrs. Judge | 00:00 Tools | |
37704236 | Play | An Dro Nevez | 00:00 Tools | |
37704131 | Play | Carolan's Concerto | 00:00 Tools | |
37704132 | Play | Carolan's dream | 00:00 Tools | |
37704252 | Play | Lamento di Tristan | 00:00 Tools | |
37704133 | Play | Carolan's Draught | 00:00 Tools | |
37704134 | Play | Young William Plunkett | 00:00 Tools | |
37704135 | Play | Carolan's Ramble to Cashel | 00:00 Tools | |
37704136 | Play | She Moved Through the Fair | 00:00 Tools | |
37704137 | Play | The Fairy Queen | 00:00 Tools | |
37704138 | Play | Maurice O'Connor | 00:00 Tools | |
37704139 | Play | George Brabazon | 00:00 Tools | |
37704140 | Play | Butterfly | 00:00 Tools | |
37704143 | Play | Morgan Magan | 00:00 Tools | |
37704141 | Play | Carolan's Receipt For Drinking | 00:00 Tools | |
37704142 | Play | The Foggy Dew | 00:00 Tools | |
37704144 | Play | Bobby Casey's | 00:00 Tools | |
37704145 | Play | What Child Is This? | 00:00 Tools | |
37704148 | Play | Come Live with Me and be My Love | 00:00 Tools | |
37704146 | Play | Carolan's Cup | 00:00 Tools | |
37704149 | Play | Three Ravens | 00:00 Tools | |
37704147 | Play | Squire Wood's Lamentation | 00:00 Tools | |
37704151 | Play | Down by the Sea | 00:00 Tools | |
37704150 | Play | Miss Rowan Davies | 00:00 Tools | |
37704152 | Play | The Blackthorn Stick | 00:00 Tools | |
37704153 | Play | Ode to Whiskey | 00:00 Tools | |
37704155 | Play | Rory Dall's Sister's Lament | 00:00 Tools | |
37704157 | Play | The Ash Grove | 00:00 Tools | |
37704154 | Play | The Top Of The White Rock | 00:00 Tools | |
37704158 | Play | John O'Connor | 00:00 Tools | |
37704166 | Play | Auld Lang Syne | 00:00 Tools | |
37704156 | Play | Lord Galway's Lamentation | 00:00 Tools | |
37704161 | Play | Lady Athenry / Fanny Poer | 00:00 Tools | |
37704159 | Play | O Come, O Come Emmanuel | 00:00 Tools | |
37704162 | Play | May Morning Dew | 00:00 Tools | |
37704160 | Play | Give Me Your Hand | 00:00 Tools | |
37704164 | Play | The Ram on Arthur's Mountain / Lullabye | 00:00 Tools | |
37704163 | Play | Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair | 00:00 Tools | |
37704165 | Play | Thomas Burke | 00:00 Tools | |
37704169 | Play | Mabel Kelly | 00:00 Tools | |
37704168 | Play | Cremonea | 00:00 Tools | |
37704167 | Play | Morgan Magan (Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704170 | Play | Carrickfergus | 00:00 Tools | |
37704174 | Play | The Twisting of the Rope | 00:00 Tools | |
37704173 | Play | Carolan's Favorite Jig | 00:00 Tools | |
37704171 | Play | Mabel Kelly (Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704172 | Play | Carolan's Dream (William Connellan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704177 | Play | The Buttonhole | 00:00 Tools | |
37704178 | Play | Eleanor Plunkett | 00:00 Tools | |
37704175 | Play | Lord Inchiquin | 00:00 Tools | |
37704176 | Play | Cremonea (Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704179 | Play | Planxty Irwin | 00:00 Tools | |
37704180 | Play | Thomas Burke (Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704186 | Play | Farewell to the Land of Mist | 00:00 Tools | |
37704181 | Play | Rory Dall's Sister's Lament (Rory Dall Morison) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704190 | Play | The Road to Lisdoonvarna / The Lark on the Strand | 00:00 Tools | |
37704189 | Play | God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | 00:00 Tools | |
37704187 | Play | Dark Woman of the Glen | 00:00 Tools | |
37704183 | Play | Coilsfield House (Nathaniel Gow) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704182 | Play | Captain O' Kane: Captain O'Kane | 00:00 Tools | |
37704184 | Play | Bridget Cruise (Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704197 | Play | The First Noel | 00:00 Tools | |
37704185 | Play | Martin Wynne's | 00:00 Tools | |
37704191 | Play | The Star of County Down | 00:00 Tools | |
37704188 | Play | Miss Rowan Davies (Phil Cunningham) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704195 | Play | Coilsfield House | 00:00 Tools | |
37704193 | Play | Limerick's Lamentation | 00:00 Tools | |
37704196 | Play | St. Basil's Hymn | 00:00 Tools | |
37704194 | Play | L'heritiere de Keroulez | 00:00 Tools | |
37704201 | Play | Caitlin Triall / Farewell | 00:00 Tools | |
37704192 | Play | Planxty Burke | 00:00 Tools | |
37704198 | Play | Give Me Your Hand (traditional) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704202 | Play | May Morning Dew / Morrison's Jig | 00:00 Tools | |
37704245 | Play | Son Ar Chistr | 00:00 Tools | |
37704199 | Play | Dr John Hart | 03:01 Tools | |
37704204 | Play | The Star of the County Down | 00:00 Tools | |
37704200 | Play | Caitlin Triall | 00:00 Tools | |
37704205 | Play | Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head | 00:00 Tools | |
37704254 | Play | Against the Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
37704206 | Play | Dr. John Hart | 00:00 Tools | |
37704203 | Play | Dermott O'Dowd / THe Queen's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
37704235 | Play | Passing Thus Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
37704255 | Play | Song of the Nuns of Chester | 00:00 Tools | |
37704208 | Play | Dermott O'Dowd / The Queen's Dream (Traditional) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704207 | Play | Coilsfield's house | 00:00 Tools | |
37704209 | Play | Song of the Water Kelpie / The Sheep Under the Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
37704239 | Play | So Treiben Wir Den Winter Aus | 00:00 Tools | |
37704211 | Play | Roscommon Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
37704243 | Play | Blow, Northerne Wynd | 00:00 Tools | |
37704247 | Play | The Oxen | 00:00 Tools | |
37704210 | Play | L'Héritière De Keroulez | 00:00 Tools | |
37704244 | Play | The Chanter's Tune | 00:00 Tools | |
37704240 | Play | Interlude / Carol of the Bells | 00:00 Tools | |
37704213 | Play | The Little Child | 00:00 Tools | |
37704231 | Play | Son ar Chistr (traditional Breton) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704216 | Play | Twisting of the rope | 00:00 Tools | |
37704214 | Play | Planxty Burke / Bumper Squire Jones | 00:00 Tools | |
37704229 | Play | Da Day Dawn | 00:00 Tools | |
37704212 | Play | Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704218 | Play | Elanor Plunkett | 00:00 Tools | |
37704219 | Play | La Berceuse de Muffe / We Three Kings | 00:00 Tools | |
37704217 | Play | The Road to Lisdoonvarna | 00:00 Tools | |
37704258 | Play | In Vernali Tempore | 00:00 Tools | |
37704215 | Play | Mabel Kelly (Carolan): Mabel Kelly | 00:00 Tools | |
37704223 | Play | Silent Night (Stille Nacht) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704253 | Play | Heman Dubh | 00:00 Tools | |
37704220 | Play | Susie McGuire | 00:00 Tools | |
37704221 | Play | Song of the Water Kelpie | 00:00 Tools | |
37704226 | Play | Mountain Of The Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
37704250 | Play | An Dro Nevez (traditional Breton) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704222 | Play | Rory Dall's Sister Lament | 00:00 Tools | |
37704249 | Play | So treiben wir den Winter aus (16th-century German) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704224 | Play | Carolan's Dream (William Connellan): Carolan's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
37704225 | Play | Coilsfield House (Nathaniel Gow): Coilsfield House | 00:00 Tools | |
37704228 | Play | Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella | 00:00 Tools | |
37704259 | Play | Heman Dubh (traditional Breton) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704266 | Play | McDonough's | 00:00 Tools | |
37704227 | Play | Rory Dall's Sister's Lament (Morison): Rory Dall's Sister's Lament | 00:00 Tools | |
37704230 | Play | Captain O'Kane (Turlough O'Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704237 | Play | Good Morning to Your Nightcap / Martin Wynne's | 00:00 Tools | |
37704233 | Play | Ned Of The Hill / Kean O'Hara | 00:00 Tools | |
37704232 | Play | Carolan's Cottage (Turlough O'Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704234 | Play | Princess Royal (Turlough O'Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704287 | Play | Interlude / St. Basil's Hymn | 00:00 Tools | |
37704238 | Play | Turlough MacDonough (Turlough O'Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704241 | Play | Oxen and Sheep / The Carol of the Birds | 00:00 Tools | |
37704242 | Play | Lady Dillon (Turlough O'Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704270 | Play | Lamento di Tristan (late 14th-century Italian dance) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704246 | Play | Lord Galway's Lamentation (Turlough O'Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704267 | Play | Passing Thus Alone (traditional/anonymous) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704268 | Play | The Chanter's Tune (traditional Irish) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704280 | Play | Winter | 00:00 Tools | |
37704248 | Play | Silent Night | 00:00 Tools | |
37704271 | Play | Song of the Nuns of Chester (15th-century English carol) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704296 | Play | Interlude / In the Bleak Midwinter | 00:00 Tools | |
37704290 | Play | A Child's Christmas in Wales | 00:00 Tools | |
37704251 | Play | Lady Athenry / Fanny Poet | 00:00 Tools | |
37704261 | Play | Susie McGuire / Briget Geary | 00:00 Tools | |
37704272 | Play | Against the Wind (traditional Irish) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704257 | Play | Susie McGuire / Bridget Geary | 00:00 Tools | |
37704276 | Play | Blow, Northerne Wynd (early 14th-century English) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704260 | Play | Dermott O'Dowd/Queen's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
37704263 | Play | Mountain of the Women | 00:00 Tools | |
37704256 | Play | Carolan's Draught (Carolan): Carolan's Draught | 00:00 Tools | |
37704265 | Play | Limerick's Lamentation (Brian Boru's March) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704262 | Play | Dona Nobis Pacem | 00:00 Tools | |
37704264 | Play | May Morning Dew (Morrison's Jig) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704279 | Play | McDonough's (Turlough O’Carolan [1670-1738]) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704275 | Play | The Gloucester Wassail / When Blossoms Flowered 'Midst the Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
37704288 | Play | Da Day Dawn (traditional Shetland carol) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704285 | Play | In vernali tempore (from Piae Cantiones, a collection of sacred songs from 16th-century Finland, encompassing much older material) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704274 | Play | Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella | 00:00 Tools | |
37704297 | Play | Interlude / The First Noel | 00:00 Tools | |
37704269 | Play | Morgan Magan (Carolan): Morgan Magan | 00:00 Tools | |
37704273 | Play | Susie Mcguire/Bridget Geary | 00:00 Tools | |
37704292 | Play | The Gloucester Wassail / When Blossoms Flowered Midst the Snow: The Christmas Rose | 00:00 Tools | |
37704319 | Play | The Wind in the Willows | 00:00 Tools | |
37704281 | Play | Lady Dillon | 00:00 Tools | |
37704277 | Play | Planxty Burke/Bumper Squire Jones | 00:00 Tools | |
37704308 | Play | An Irish Blessing | 00:00 Tools | |
37704284 | Play | The Gloucester Wassail/When Blossoms Flowered 'Midst the Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
37704278 | Play | The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow (L'heritiere de Keroulez) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704286 | Play | Princess Royal | 00:00 Tools | |
37704282 | Play | Turlough MacDonough | 00:00 Tools | |
37704289 | Play | Captain O'Kane | 00:00 Tools | |
37704336 | Play | Interlude / Auld Lang Syne | 00:00 Tools | |
37704283 | Play | Moore's Castle | 00:00 Tools | |
37704291 | Play | Oxen and Sheep - The Carol of the Birds | 00:00 Tools | |
37704309 | Play | Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella: Un Flambeau Jeanette Isabella | 00:00 Tools | |
37704300 | Play | Carolan's Cup (arr. P. Ball): Carolan's Cup | 00:00 Tools | |
37704295 | Play | Song of the Water Kelpie/The Sheep Under the Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
89936787 | Play | The Light of the Islands | 00:00 Tools | |
37704328 | Play | Colin's Christmas Candle | 00:00 Tools | |
88223263 | Play | La Valse Pour Les Petits Jeunes Filles | 00:00 Tools | |
37704294 | Play | Good Morning to Your Nightcap / Martin Wynne' s | 00:00 Tools | |
37704299 | Play | The Gloucester Wassail/When Blossoms Flowered 'Midst The Snow (The Christmas Rose) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704324 | Play | Dona Nobis Pacem: Give Us Peace | 00:00 Tools | |
37704314 | Play | What Child is This?: Greensleeves | 00:00 Tools | |
37704315 | Play | Oxen and Sheep / The Carol of the Birds: Entre le Boeuf et l'Ane Gris / Noel de Ausels | 00:00 Tools | |
37704301 | Play | The Gloucester Wassail / When Blossoms Flowered, | 00:00 Tools | |
37704298 | Play | Maurice O' Conner | 00:00 Tools | |
37704316 | Play | She Moved Through the Fair / Ta Me Mo Shui / Samhradh, Samhradh | 00:00 Tools | |
37704302 | Play | Le Berceuse de Muffe / We Three Kings: Le Berceuse de Muffe | 00:00 Tools | |
37704303 | Play | Gwilan's Harp | 00:00 Tools | |
37704305 | Play | Dermott O' Dowd/ The Queen's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
37704307 | Play | Caitlin Triall/Farewell (The Hebrides) | 00:00 Tools | |
89936788 | Play | What child is this ? | 00:00 Tools | |
37704311 | Play | The Orange Rouge | 00:00 Tools | |
37704312 | Play | Carolan' s Cottage | 00:00 Tools | |
37704318 | Play | Young William Plinkett | 00:00 Tools | |
37704313 | Play | Ned of the Hill / Kean O' Hara | 00:00 Tools | |
37704304 | Play | Carolan's Reciept For Drinking | 00:00 Tools | |
37704323 | Play | Carolan's Cottage | 00:00 Tools | |
37704321 | Play | carolans quarrel with the landlady | 00:00 Tools | |
37704306 | Play | Shebeg Sheemore | 00:00 Tools | |
88223264 | Play | Le Berceuse de Muffe: We Three Kings | 00:00 Tools | |
37704325 | Play | Silent Night: Stille Nacht | 00:00 Tools | |
37704327 | Play | Whispering From Another World | 00:00 Tools | |
37704317 | Play | Carolan's Cup (Carolan): Carolan's Cup | 00:00 Tools | |
37704320 | Play | The Soul Agony | 00:00 Tools | |
37704340 | Play | Limerick's Lamentation / Brian Boru's March | 00:00 Tools | |
37704332 | Play | She Moved Through the Fair (Ta Me Mo Shui/Samhradh, Samhradh) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704341 | Play | L'heritiere de Keroulez / The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow | 00:00 Tools | |
37704322 | Play | Road to Lisdoonvarna/The Lark on the Strand | 00:00 Tools | |
37704333 | Play | Dermott O'Dowd/The Queen's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
37704329 | Play | The Matchmaker | 00:00 Tools | |
37704337 | Play | The Road to Lisdoonvarna/The Lark On the Strand | 00:00 Tools | |
37704330 | Play | Cremonea (Carolan) | 00:00 Tools | |
37704331 | Play | What Child Is This | 00:00 Tools | |
37704335 | Play | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel | 00:00 Tools | |
37704326 | Play | Lady Athenry-Fanny Poer | 00:00 Tools | |
37704334 | Play | Three Quarks | 00:00 Tools | |
37704338 | Play | The Butterfly (Irish) | 00:00 Tools | |
89936789 | Play | Greensleeves (England) | 00:00 Tools | |
89936790 | Play | Down by the Sea (Wales) | 00:00 Tools | |
89936791 | Play | L'heritiere de Keroulez (The Pretty Maid Mailking Her Cow) | 00:00 Tools | |
89936792 | Play | Martin Wynnes | 00:00 Tools | |
37704339 | Play | Ned Of The Hill/ Kean O'Hara | 00:00 Tools | |
88223265 | Play | La Valse Pour Les Petites Jeunes Flles | 00:00 Tools | |
89936793 | Play | The Dublin Man | 00:00 Tools | |
89936794 | Play | The Great Rowers | 00:00 Tools | |
89936795 | Play | The Vanishing | 00:00 Tools | |
37704343 | Play | La Valse Pour Les Petites Jeun | 00:00 Tools | |
37704342 | Play | An Dro Nevez (traditional Breton) | 00:00 Tools |
Patrick Ball was born and raised in California and gave little thought to such things as where his ancestors came from. He went to school and supposed, when he thought about it at all, that he would one day be a lawyer, like his father. But he studied music from time to time and over the years developed a nodding acquaintance with the piano and the guitar. At university he continued his flirtatious relationship with music by playing the tin whistle, principally to annoy his roommate. But at this time he found that he was irresistibly drawn to words, to the music of words, to writers who made words sing, to writers from Ireland. Then, when he began to study history to fulfill his academic requirements, he was not surprised to find that it was the lyrical, turbulent history of Ireland that engaged him. So much so, in fact, that when his father died all his thoughts of law school died with him. He enrolled in graduate school and soon made his way to Ireland. There he fell in love with the eloquence and fire of the Irish oral tradition. There he fell in love with the Celtic harp. And there a few pieces of his life fell into place. For he came to know that marvelous unity of Irish words, music and history that would become his passion and, eventually, his livelihood. Patrick returned to California, was awarded a Master's Degree in History by Dominican College, and soon discovered that jobs in the field of Irish scholarship were not to be had for love nor money. So after laboring in various unrewarding lines of work he set off hitchhiking around the country and finally fetched up at Penland School of Crafts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where he lived for two years and worked as a groundsman. There he encountered a branch of that living oral tradition that had captivated him in Ireland. And there for him, among the Appalachian storytellers, his love of the spoken word was rekindled. He returned to Ireland and listened, then made his way back to California, determined to put his scholarship, his love of words and his neglected musicianship to some use, to carve out for himself an occupation from the things that he loved. He sought out a maker of the rare wire-strung Celtic harp and taught himself to play. He then gathered the stories he had heard and the history he had learned and blended them with the music that had so often been their companion. He now tours extensively throughout the United States and Canada, is considered one of the premier Celtic harpers and storytellers in the world today, and has recorded nine instrumental and three spoken word albums which have sold well over one-half million copies collectively and earned national awards in both the music and spoken word categories. Along with Celtic Harp and Story, his beguiling blend of music and spoken word concerts, Patrick has also written and currently performs two solo musical theater pieces: O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, which brings to the stage the legendary life, the turbulent times and the glorious music of Ireland's most celebrated and beloved musician, Turlough O'Carolan, and The Fine Beauty of the Island, a musical journey to Ireland's legendary Blasket Islands in search of a deeply haunting tune and the vanished islanders who played it. Patrick has been awarded grants for his work by the Zellerbach Family Fund and the California Arts Council and is the recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Association. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.