Our name comes from a slow air written by our own Rebecca Keeshen inspired by the lonely and beautiful landscape in the west of Ireland, the Burren.
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Manx Set: Colbagh Breck/Mylecharaine’s March
Colbagh Breck, we think, is a traditional hop jig in 9/8. The second tune is also traditional, learned from the playing of Barrule.
Paddy Fahey’s/Frieze Britches
The first of these two jigs was composed by the late Irish composer and fiddler Paddy Fahey. The second is traditional. Read more about it here: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Frieze_Breeches_(1)
Maison de Glace/Le Printemps
Maison de Glace was composed by Rèjean Brunet at the Ice House on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia, where many great jams have been held over the years by students and teachers at the Augusta Heritage Center. Brother André Brunet composed Le Printemps. The brothers are members of the amazing band Le Vend du Nord.
“…Bill Pheric was coming home late one night across the mountains from Druidale and heard the fairies singing just as he was going over the river by the thorn tree that grows there. The tune they had was the ‘Bolian bane’, and he wanted to learn it from them, so he went back three times before he could pick it up and remember it, but after the third time he had it by heart…”
The Devil once a fiddler made’: the connection between Manx, Scottish and Norwegian fiddle music
Fenella Crowe Bazin
Edelwise Club Concert January 12, 2024
Wandering the Burren & Friends Celtic Band
To contact us, email ssponar07@gmail.com or rebecca@unm.edu
VA Concert 03/14/24
Wandering the Burren & Friends Celtic Band 