Celtic Solstice
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Celtic Solstice is an album by Paul Winter
, released in 1999 through the record label
Living Music. In 2000, the album earned him a Grammy Award
for Best New Age Album
.
Paul Winter
Paul Winter is an American saxophonist , and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee.- Biography :Paul Winter attended Altoona Area High School and graduated in 1957...
, released in 1999 through the record label
Record label
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Living Music. In 2000, the album earned him a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best New Age Album
Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the New Age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
.
Track listing
- "Triumph" (Halley, Spillane, Winter) – 7:06
- "Golden Apples of the Sun" (traditional, Yeats) – 6:25
- "Hollow Hills" (Spillane) – 1:55
- "O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick" (traditional) – 4:36
- "Dawnwalker" (Halley, Spillane) – 6:43
- "My Fair and Faithful Love/Blarney Pilgram" (Maclean, traditional) – 5:23
- "Sweet Comeraghs" (Faoli·in) – 3:55
- "After the Fleadh/Running Through the Woods With Keetu" (Fahy, Madden) – 6:45
- "The Minister's Adieu" (Thomas) – 2:09
- "Farewell to Govan" (Cunningham) – 2:58
- "Golden Apples of the Sun (Reprise)" (traditional) – 7:06
- "Dawnwalker (Reprise)" (Halley, Spillane) – 2:32
Personnel
- Paul Winter – soprano saxophone
- Davy SpillaneDavy SpillaneDavy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...
– uilleann pipesUilleann pipesThe uilleann pipes or //; ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland, their current name, earlier known in English as "union pipes", is a part translation of the Irish-language term píobaí uilleann , from their method of inflation.The bag of the uilleann pipes is inflated by means of a... - Eileen IversEileen IversEileen Ivers is an Irish-American musician.Eileen Ivers was born in New York City of Irish-born parents and grew up in the Bronx. She spent summers in Ireland and took up the fiddle at the age of nine. Her teacher was the Irish fiddler Martin Mulvihill. She toured with Mick Moloney's band The...
– fiddle - Karan CaseyKaran CaseyKaran Casey is an Irish folk singer, and a former member of the Irish band Solas.-Early years:Casey was born in Ballyduff Lower, Kilmeaden, County Waterford, Ireland. Her family encouraged her to sing in the house, in a church choir and at school. At Waterford Regional Technical College she...
– vocals - Joanie MaddenJoanie MaddenJoanie Madden is an Irish-American flute and whistle player of Irish Traditional Music. She is best known as leader of the all-female group Cherish the Ladies, but has also recorded and performed with numerous other musicians, and as a solo artist. She also teaches master classes and...
– flute and whistle - Jerry O'SullivanJerry O'SullivanJerry O'Sullivan is a contemporary Irish-American musician.Jerry was born in New York. As a youngster he learned Scottish highland bagpipes. Following a visit to his cousins in Dublin he took up uilleann pipes....
– uilleann pipes - Paul HalleyPaul HalleyPaul Halley is an organist, singer, pianist, and composer. He is perhaps best known as being a member of and composer for the Paul Winter Consort.- Biography :...
– pipe organ and piano - Jamey HaddadJamey HaddadJamey George Haddad is an American percussionist working primarily in the fields of jazz and world music, and specializing in hand drums.-Biography:...
– percussion - Zan McLoed – guitar
- Carol Thompson – celtic harp and Welsh triple harp
- Austin McGrath – bodhran
- Bakithi Kumalo – bass