Planxty - Only Our Rivers Run Free [feat. Christy Moore]

 Planxty - Only Our Rivers Run Free

Planxty home of Andy Irvine and Christy Moore!

found via: The Days of the MV Naomh Éanna, Ireland

so might sign off with this featuring the wondrous Christy Moore 

The formation of Planxty . . . .

 The formation of Planxty is so interesting and features stalwarts (now elder statesmen?) of Irish music from Liam Óg O’Flynn to Andy Irvine, Colm Broderick  and of course family favourite here, Christy Moore

Broadside Hacks

PLANXTY - Live in Dublin 1980 - Jeremiah at The Voodoo Wagon

 

Planxty - Live in Dublin 1980 - Voodoo Wagon

a fine recording of a fine band and featuring three legends in Irish folk music in their own right (well they all are really) with Andy Irvine (check out his solo work and with Paul Brady too) Donal Lunny (who deserves more attention outside his homeland) and the legend that is Christy Moore an uncompromising radical and honey voiced master of Irish music in all its forms

 Planxty

Olympia Theatre

Dublin Ireland

1980-08-18/23

Soundboard @320

01. Plains of Kildare 

02. Emigrant's Farewell 

03. Chattering Magpie---Lord McDonald 

04. As I Roved Out 

05. Nancy Spain 

06. The Gold Ring 

07. The Jolly Beggerman 

08. Set of Reels 

09. Kellswater 

10. John O'Dreams 

11. Tierney's---Out On the Ocean---Pay the Reckoning

12. Johnny Cope 

13. I Pity the Poor Immigrant 

14. The Irish March 

15. Smeceno Horo 

16. No Time for Love 

17. West Coast of Clare 

18. Good Ship Kangaroo

19. Timedance (The Humours of Barrack Street-Isercleran-Ballymun Regatta) (Bonus Track)

Christy Moore - Acoustic Guitar, Bodhrán, Vocals

Donal Lunny - Bouzouki, Guitar, Bodhrán, Keyboards

Liam O'Flynn - Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle

Andy Irvine - Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Hurdy-Gurdy, Harmonica, Vocals

Bill Whelan - Keyboards

Nollaig Casey (Nollaig Ni Cathasaigh) - Fiddle

Check out Mr Moore's fine introduction to the band here from the same year as this set and you can tell he has been blessed with what we might call a touch of the Blarney (from the kissing of the Blarney Stone) and gift it is!