Track listing

1. "Johnny Boyle's/ King of the Pipers" (Trad/ Trad) (Instr) - 3.30
2. "Dark Haired Lass/ Biddy From Muckross/ Sean Maguire's" (Reels) (Trad/ Trad/ Trad) (Instr) - 2:51
3. "Stór, A Stór, A Ghrá"' (song) (Traditional) (Irish) - 2:51
4. "Strathspey/ Con McGinley's/ The Newfoundland Reel" (Strathspey and Reels) (Trad/ Trad/ Trad) (Instr) -3:11
5. "Tá Mé 'Mo Shuí (I am awake)" (song) (Traditional) (Gaelic) - 4:08
6. "An Gasúr Mor/ Bunker Hill/ Dogs Among the Bushes" (Hornpipe and Reels) (Trad/ Trad/ Trad) (Instr) - 2:36
7. "Molly Na gCuach Ní Chuilleanáin (The curly haired Molly)"(song) (Traditional) (Irish) - 4:57
8. "Jenny Picking Cockles/ Farewell to Leitrim/ John Doherty's" (Reels) (Trad/ Trad/ Trad) (Instr) - 2:41
9. "Ar Bhruach Na Carraige Báine" (song) (Traditional) (sung in English and Irish) - 2:38
10. "The Dance of the Honeybees" (hornpipe) (Charlie Lennon) (Instr) - 3:24
11. "Blackwaterside" (song) (Traditional) (English) - 3:43
12. "A Tune for Frankie" (jig) (Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
    Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
    Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band Altan.-Biography:Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore , County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ireland....
    
    ) - 3:25

Personnel

• Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
  Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
  Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band Altan.-Biography:Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore , County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ireland....
  
   – Fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  , vocals
• Ciaran Tourish – Fiddle, whistle
  Tin whistle
  The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
  
  , backing vocals
• Dermot Byrne – Accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , melodeon
  Melodeon (organ)
  A melodeon is a type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-operated vacuum bellows, and a piano keyboard. It differs from the related harmonium, which uses a pressure bellows. Melodeons were manufactured in the United States sometime after 1812 until the Civil War era...
  
  
• Ciarán Curran – Bouzouki
  Bouzouki
  The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
  
  
• Mark Kelly – Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , backing vocals
• Dáithí Sproule
  Dáithí Sproule
  Dáithí Sproule is a guitarist and singer of traditional Irish music from Derry, Northern Ireland. His niece is the singer songwriter Claire Sproule.-Biography:...
  
   – Guitar, backing vocals

Guests Musicians

• Steve Cooney – Bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
   (tracks 7, 9, 10, 12), backing vocals (tracks 3, 7)
• Conan Doyle – Backing vocals (track 3)
• Jimmy Higgins – Bodhrán (tracks 1, 3, 5), darrbuka (track 8), snare drum
  Snare drum
  The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...
  
   (track 7), wood block
  Wood block
  A woodblock is essentially a small piece of slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument. It is struck with a stick, making a characteristically percussive sound....
  
   (track 9), clay drum
  Clay drum
  A clay drum is a variety of percussion instrument found in various parts of the world. It may refer to:-Membranophones:*Goblet drum, from the Middle East*Khol, from India*Kus, from Iran*Madal, from Nepal*Mrdanga, from India...
  
  s (track 3)
• Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...
  
   – Bouzouki (track 10), bodhrán
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
   (tracks 4, 7, 9, 12), keyboards
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
   (tracks 5, 7, 9, 12)
• Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill
  Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
  Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish traditional singer from Kells, County Meath. Known for her work with the short-lived, but very highly regarded Skara Brae and her collaborations with sister Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, as well as other traditional musicians...
  
   – Backing vocals (track 3)
• Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
  Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
  Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish traditional singer, pianist, and composer, considered one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of Irish music. She is famed for her work with traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, Relativity, Touchstone, and Nightnoise.-...
  
   – Backing vocals (track 3), piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
   (track 11)
• Anna Ní Mhaonaigh – Backing vocals (track 7)
• Brendan Power – Harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
   (tracks 3, 7, 9)
• String quartet
  String quartet
  A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
  
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• Máire Breatnach
  Máire Breatnach
  Máire Breatnach is one of the most prominent fiddle players in Ireland. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums. Since the early 1990s, she has had five solo albums, participated in many other albums , with substantive contributions in some cases, and contributed to many music CDs, as well as...
  
   — Viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  
• Annette Cleary — Cello
• David James — Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Tommy Kane — Violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  

Production

• Brian Masterson – Producer, Engineer
• David Scheinmann – Photography
• The Design Corporation – Design