Seamus Ennis - Wandering Minstrel

There is a saying that it takes seven years of learning, seven years of practice and seven years of playing to become a uilleann piper. Seamus Ennis must have studied diligently during his 21-year apprenticeship because he is one of the pipe's true masters. The Wandering Minstrel presents a collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes, and airs--traditional Irish music played in the ancient manner, without accompaniment. Too often solo performance degenerates into a display of technical prowess at the expense of the music. Ennis, however, never lets his ability on the pipes overpower the music. Storyteller, tune collector, linguist, radio producer, and folklorist, Ennis is most fondly remembered as an uilleann piper of rare distinction, a standing that's illustrated with The Wandering Minstrel. [review by Michael Simmons]

1. The Wandering Minstrel/Jackson's Morning Brush

2. The Boys Of Bluehill/Dunphy's Hornpipe

3. The Glen-Nephin Cuckoo/The Little Fair Cannavans

4. The Frieze Britches

5. The Flags Of Dublin/The Wind That Shakes The Barley

6. The Little Stack Of Barley/Cronin's Hornpipe

7. The New Demesne

8. The Blackbird

9. Gillan's Apples/The Walls Of Liscarroll/The Stone In The Field

10. Molly O'Malone

11. Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel

12. Happy To Meet And Sorry To Part

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Seamus Ennis - Wandering Minstrel