Cassidy’s Ceili

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Wicklow Queen

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Released: Jan 1, 2010

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Wicklow Queen
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Step it out Mary
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Fair Maid Who Joined the Navy
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The Newry Highwayman
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Mercy
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General Info

Genre: Celtic / Roots Music / Surf
Location Canburren, Australian Capital Territory, Au
Profile Views: 29748
Last Login: 5/29/2011
Member Since 1/29/2007
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS9jYXNzaWR5c2NlaWxp
Type of Label Indie
Bio
If you've managed to get this far, see below. But MySpace has become so awkward these days that we recommend you take a look at the Other Social Network for updates: http://www.facebook.com/cassidysceili .....a band so Celtic it'll turn yer ears green..... ..Songs and fiddle tunes from Canberra's premier pan-Celtic party band: from traditional Irish and Scottish favourites to some Pogues, Ploughboys and the odd Celtic tune from Hungary and Venezuela, plus rare gems from the little-known Donegal tango tradition. .. .. And we play all those songs you didn't know you knew: traditional Celtic favourites concerning drinking, murder, war, cross-dressing (while at war), robbery (cross-dressing optional), drinking and the usual stuff about not being where you want to be with the one you would have liked to have been with. ..Cassidy's Ceili plays at festivals, parties, weddings, dances: our unique corporate bush dances are alarmingly popular... team-building with a vengeance via ancient Celtic initiation rituals such as the Brown Jug Polka. .. If you like the idea of Cassidy's Ceili at your event, ..contact us.. and let's talk about it! You can phone us on 02 6254 7352. ..And remember: ..'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come..... (J.R.R. Tolkien) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..About the songs.. ..To kick off, here are two new ones from the latest CD ..Sunday at Sandy's..:..Wicklow Queen.. and ..Step it out Mary... ....The Fair Maid who joined the Navy..: no glass ceiling when it comes to running the rigging, if you looked the part. There's a body of ballads concerning women who went to sea: compare ....The Female Rambling Sailor.... sung by ..Jenny Gall.. at Mark Gregory's Australian Folk Song site. Come to think of it, ..Stinky.. was a ship's cat in a former life. Number seven, probably. ..And if you look below at Chris' profile pic, you'll see Kevin Smith's head moving nicely in time (on a good day) to the music. ....The Duke and the Tinker.. was recorded live at The Irish Club, our Canberran home from home. The story gets a mention in Emerson's essay ..Self-Reliance..: 'That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact, that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince.' ....Mercy.., also from The Irish Club, is by Damian Howard – a Ploughboy and a Gentle Soul. ....Pills of White Mercury.. '...one night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury' – had he but told me... ....The Goldminer.. ... A Cass and Pete original. Hard times at the goldfields of Kambalda, West Australia. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...................... ..
Members
..Cassidy Richens: her voice will take you from delicate ballads through to full-on party mode in the course of the evening: from ..Danny Boy.. to ..Whiskey in the Jar.. in one fell swoop. ..Sandy Gibbney plays the fiddle: jigs, reels and airs from Ireland and Scotland. And he turns out a hair-raising version of the ..Orange Blossom Special... ..Peter Richens plays guitar and banjo: he and Sandy harmonise with Cassidy for some celtalicious choruses. And this is where you could come in for some traditional interactive entertainment. ..Jon Jones and Ian Blake toured for many years as drummer and bass player with Eric Bogle — best known for his fine rendition of that traditional Irish ballad ..The Green Fields of France.. — and lurk at the back of the stage providing the groove for Cassidy's Ceili. Jon steps forward from time to time to give us all a taste of bodhrán, and has been known to crowdsurf while playing the washboard...
Influences
Guinness, Lorenya and various saints.
Sounds Like
The lovechild of Mary Black and Shane McGowan backed by a gaggle of revenant bog people.