Recorded over two nights in the Black Box Galway, this live DVD is the first such from Sean Keane ..... a stunning performance featuring a host of the best of Ireland`s traditional musicans and dancers. Mairtin Jaimsie O`Flaithearta gives two dramatic readings, Fatima Alverez Fernandez provides a lesson in Spanish flamenco and singer Fionnuala Deacy makes her debut in the beautiful `Fare Thee Well Love`.
Songs are a mix of the very old and the very new- the common element is the beauty of the songs themselves and the presentation from Sean. Rousing tunes are brought even more alive by the dancing of the traditional old-style Cunningham Family - and the dyddling and `clicking`from Sean Keane and Sean Regan have to be seen to be believed!
The theme of the show is movement in and out of Ireland from the 5th century to the present day. Sometimes sad, but mostly happy and optimistic, the songs, dances and music take you on a whirlwind ride through Ireland`s past. An extensive notes section gives the background and historical place to each piece.
Extra features are a post-perfromance interview with Sean and members of the audience, on-screen booklet and on-screen extra information on the history of Irish travel and emigration.
Tracklisting.
1. Dear Little Isle/Banish Misfortune
2. Fare Thee Well Enniskillen
3. Saints and Scholars/Kitty Hayes - Mairtin O`Connor
4. On the Shores of Newfoundland
5. Reading - Mairtin Jaimsie O`Flaithearta
6. Shenandoah
7. High on a Mountain
8. Montserrat/Swallow`s Tail - Mairtin O`Connor
9. Fare Thee Well, Love - Duet with Fionnuala Deacy
10. Paddy`s Green Shamrock Shore
11. Saint Patrick`s Day in The Morning/Garryowen
12. Far Away in Australia
13. Van Diemen`s Land - unaccompanied
14. Tulla Reel/ Toss the Featers/ Boys of Ballisodare
15. One Way Ticket
16. Reading - Mairtin Jaimsie O`Flaithearta
17. Grosse Ile
18. Dyddling and Clicking- with Sean Regan
19. Exile
20.The Fields of Sasketchewan
21. O`Neills/Off to California
22. Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears
23. The Crossing(O Siyeza)
24. Dairy Maid/My Love is in America/ Shaskeen Reel
25. Home Away From Home/Farrell O`Gara
Additional Tracks
1. Journey Round the Sun - from soundcheck
2. Kilkelly Ireland
3. The Shipyards and Gdansk
