Originally from Belfast, Ireland, Seamus Kennedy has been entertaining audiences all over the U.S. for more than three decades.
With a repertoire that encompasses just about everything in the folk genre, he can go from a heart-rending ballad of Ireland's historic troubles to a daft ditty and a silly song, with lots of humorous patter thrown in.
He accompanies himself on the bodhrán (the Irish hand-drum) and the guitar, and he encourages audience participation and singing along.
This CD, Party Pieces, are the songs he heard his parents, aunts and uncles, family and friends singing at parties back home in Ireland in his youth.
They run the gamut from the eerie, ghostly love song She Moved Through the Fair (his father's party piece) to the completely silly Spaniard Who Blighted My Life - his mother's party piece.
Feel free to join in, laugh or sing along, and maybe get a party piece of your own.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.seamus-kennedy.com
Track List:
1. Arkle
2. Back In The Clydesdale
3. Forty Shades Of Green
4. The Bold Thady Quill
5. She Moved Through The Fair
6. The Spaniard Who Blighted My Life
7. The Kentucky Waltz
8. Boulavogue
9. Homes Of Donegal
10. Carrickfergus
11. The Glass Eye Song
12. My Cavan Girl
13. Abdul Abulbul Ameer
14. The Water Is Wide
15. Volare
Other Genres:
With a repertoire that encompasses just about everything in the folk genre, he can go from a heart-rending ballad of Ireland's historic troubles to a daft ditty and a silly song, with lots of humorous patter thrown in.
He accompanies himself on the bodhrán (the Irish hand-drum) and the guitar, and he encourages audience participation and singing along.
This CD, Party Pieces, are the songs he heard his parents, aunts and uncles, family and friends singing at parties back home in Ireland in his youth.
They run the gamut from the eerie, ghostly love song She Moved Through the Fair (his father's party piece) to the completely silly Spaniard Who Blighted My Life - his mother's party piece.
Feel free to join in, laugh or sing along, and maybe get a party piece of your own.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.seamus-kennedy.com
Track List:
1. Arkle
2. Back In The Clydesdale
3. Forty Shades Of Green
4. The Bold Thady Quill
5. She Moved Through The Fair
6. The Spaniard Who Blighted My Life
7. The Kentucky Waltz
8. Boulavogue
9. Homes Of Donegal
10. Carrickfergus
11. The Glass Eye Song
12. My Cavan Girl
13. Abdul Abulbul Ameer
14. The Water Is Wide
15. Volare
Other Genres:
- FOLK: Folk Pop
- FOLK: Traditional Folk
- MOOD: FUN