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1 |
Tidings
- King of the Fairies |
2 |
Raggle
Taggle Gipsy |
3 |
Celtic
Suite |
4 |
When Will We Be Married
- (CD - Moondance) |
5 |
The
Dark Island - Tom Betty’s Waltz (CD - The
Dark Island - Tom Betty’s Waltz) |
6 |
Whiskey
In The Jar |
7 |
Queen
of the May - Congress - (+Tequila CD only) |
8 |
The Water Is Wide - (CD - Fields
of Gold) |
9 |
Introducing
Sniff the Pony |
10 |
The
Kesh - Morrisons - Saddle The Pony - Jingle Bells |
11 |
The
Alien Jellyfish Song |
12 |
Bobby
Caseys |
13 |
The
Black Velvet Band |
14 |
Introductions |
15 |
Dublin
to Dakar |
Dan
Britton - vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhran |
Adele
McMahon - violin |
Neil
Rabjohn - cajon
drum
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Chris
Conway - |
vocals,
keyboards, tin & low whistles, guitar, kalimba |
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Govannen
live Christmas concert at Kirby Twins Acoustic Club.
A special concert, a great audience and a night of Irish
songs, jigs, reels and more from this great Celtic band.
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background
The
Christmas concert at Kirby Twins Acoustic Club in the packed
village hall in Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire is like a
homecoming concert for Govannen. The hall was full of 100
fans - mostly all local friends.
The Govannen sound had been strengthened by the addition
of Neil Rabjohn on cajon drum and a recording was taken
by the band to hear how things sounded. The holiday season
added a couple of Christmas touches, but also gave them
the opportunity to play a couple of popular songs, take
some requests, and stretch out a few arrangements of traditional
tunes.
A fun album and a record of a great night with the band
on top form.
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influences
Alan
Stivell, Donal Lunny, The Waterboys, Shane McGowan, The
Pogues, The Moving Hearts, Planxty, Ray Charles, Van Morrison,
Sting, Moving Hearts
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trivia
The
album's curious title is taken from Chris's misspoken announcement
of the piece Saddle The Pony. The band often comment that
the name of the horse on the album cover is Sniff.
Celtic Suite started as a solo violin air by Adele -
what followed was a string of tunes and improvisated magic
from Govannen.
Tequila is a running gag by the band as Christo often adds
it to various songs wherever he can. At party functions
the band now play it straight as part of it's regular set.
In 2018 the album was reformatted for digital release replacing cover songs with traditional ones recorded at the same concert and retitled "Live 2008 - Sniff The Pony"
CC's favourite track - Celtic Suite
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