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CRAN
Acoustic / A'cappella / Folk

"music from a small planet"


Ireland

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Member Since5/24/2007
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CRAN @ Celtic Connections 2008

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While we were in Glasgow for Celtic Connections 2008, we played a concert for the BBC radio programme Travelling Folk presented by Archie Fisher. You can take a listen here on the BBC archive website.

It was a great gig and we shared the stage with some very nice others including Fiona Mackenzie, Darrell Scott, June Tabor and Session A9. You can see some pics here from one or two steps back on that BBC archive page.


Take a peek down below for audience shots...

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The CRANcy Brothers...

 

RONAN BROWNE (uilleann pipes, flutes, vocals)

www.ronanbrowne.com

"One of the finest pipers of his generation…an innovator who has developed his own unique style."

– Irish Times.

Since Ronan took up the uilleann pipes in 1972, he has soaked up the music of the old Masters of Irish Music, Willie Clancy, Seamus Ennis, Johnny Doran, Tommy Potts and Denis Murphy.  He straddles that difficult divide between pure traditional music and the modern world, ranging from solo work and writing for film & television, his celebrated duo with Peter O'Loughlin, through playing with CRAN, on to his work as the original piper with both the Afro Celt Sound System and Riverdance.

 

 

CRAN Na Ceannabháin Bhana

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SEÁN CORCORAN (bouzouki & lead vocals)

www.rollwave.com

‘His highly ornate vocal technique is the true voice of Irish folk' – Washington Post

Seán, an award-winning singer who has worked with everyone from Phil Lynott to Paul Brady, is a vastly experienced performer who has appeared in major festivals and theatre circuits throughout Europe, North America and Japan. He is a song collector, bouzouki player, ethnomusicologist, a general wit and cultured man-about-town.  Sean's extensive field work has drawn CRAN towards previously unrecorded songs and his deep interest in the great collectors has provided numerous songs from the pre-recording era.   He recently re-formed his cult a capella group Pressgang and they holding celebrated concerts.

 

CRAN In Concert

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DESI WILKINSON (flutes, whistle & vocals)

http://homepage.eircom.net/~shadywoods

‘A dazzling display of virtuosity and quirky genius'

– In Dublin

Desi plays concert flute (some fiddle, guitar, pipes and clarinet) and is a fine singer, to boot. He has an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Queens University, Belfast, where his thesis was on Sligo-Leitrim flute styles and a Ph.D from the University of Limerick where he wrote a doctoral thesis on Breton music. He is currently Lecturer in Folk and Traditional Music at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has comparable attitudes to literature, food and other unspecified things. His wish is to be relatively healthy, try to do some good, have a good time and to be always able to enjoy music and to play and sing honestly and well - that's about all.

 

CRAN Erin Gra mo Chroi

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Record LabelBlack Rose Records
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   About CRAN

CRAN are a unique group in the Irish folk-music world with their own highly-individualistic approach and a bewildering array of styles and repertoire. Each member of the trio already had international reputations in their own fields before the band was formed. Desi Wilkinson had become a major force in the field of Irish flute-playing, both at home and abroad; Sean Corcoran was known internationally as one of the leading singers in the Hiberno-English and Gaelic traditions and also as a researcher and teacher; Ronan Browne had not only carved out a name for himself as one of the leading lights among the younger generation of uilleann pipers - he was already giving master-classes on the instrument in Europe and the U.S.A.

CRAN's concert performances are a dazzling display of technical virtuosity combined with fun and humour, banter and stories. The core of their repertoire is their native Irish material - bubbling dance music or haunting slow airs on flute and pipes, and vocals ranging from the highly-ornamented sean-nós songs of Conamara to the rollicking port a'bhéil or mouth music of Donegal. Their Hiberno-English song repertoire (songs from Ireland in English) covers the entire gamut from the old story-telling "long ballads" to lively comic songs of "pure divilment and rascality". They also include material from the related Scots-Gaelic tradition and from the other Atlantic Celts, the Bretons.


If you would like to order a "hard copy" of any of the CDs, click "Add To Cart" below. You can pay through PayPal or if you don't have a PayPal account they will also accept direct credit card payments for us.

Watch out for Black Black Black - it is €2 more expensive as it belongs to Claddagh Records and we have to buy it from them.

The postage is made up by weight so you can add 2 CDs at the lowest rate and up to 5 at the higher. We'll post them out ourselves from the sunny slopes of Erin's green vales...

The Crooked Stair €15
Black Black Black €17
Lover's Ghost €15
Music from the Edge €15

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ed a.k.a. GaelicStormer





Oct 1 2008 4:48 PM

Thank you so much for the add, Love the sound....ed
Lieve Photography





Oct 1 2008 1:51 PM

Hé CRAN!!! been so long since our adventures in the Netherlands...
How are you all... hope you had a lovely summer.
Been in Sligo in august at a jazz festival as their photographer.
Just want to say that I miss you all and really hope to catch up somewhere soon...
Still no gigs in Belgium??? :(
well, I will travel no matter where :)
big lievehugs to all!
Ragnhild Furebotten / Tore Bruvoll





Oct 1 2008 10:14 AM

Hi guys!
It must be about ten years since the lovely days in Rauland and Tromsø!

Hope to see you soon, it..s been too long!

All the best Ragnhild and Tore
nhiila





Sep 18 2008 9:17 AM

hi! and thanks for the add!
pls you r very welcome to visit and listen my page... hope you enjoy and tell your feelings
all the best!
Thalia Blacking





Sep 14 2008 4:08 PM

Hello there - thanks for the add, hope all is well and to meet you again sometime.
Mighty music! thalia
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Sep 6 2008 12:05 PM

Thanks for the add!
All the best!
UP MAYO!
Yann Da Man.
http://www. thewestportinn. com
Real Ladies and Ghosts





Sep 5 2008 4:32 PM

Thanks a million for your comment!
We'll try to keep up !
So many songs to discover...
best "salutations" from the Real ladies!
corinne
Rock Against Child Pornography & Abuse. IRELAND





Sep 1 2008 6:37 PM

Hello My Friend, and our respect for your work !!!

Welcome to our list and thank you for becoming our friend!

The helpless must be protected, and those with no voice of their own must be spoken up for. Those who prey on our children rely on silence, and it must not be allowed to continue!
So thank you for adding your voice to ours, together we will grow louder...AND WE WILL BREAK THE SILENCE!!!

Séafra and The Team :-)

Welcome to Team Éire

@Rock Against Child Pornography and Abuse IRELAND.
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Aug 11 2008 6:11 PM

Thanks a million !Erin gra mo chroi is a great song that we had the pleasure to hear in live at Tocane!
Hope you will find our interpretation with 2 voices as great as possible!
Corinne
David Seïté





Aug 8 2008 9:24 AM

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Aug 4 2008 1:56 PM

thank you for the friendship, all the best.Elmastaba.



the simsimiyya, a folk-instrument indigenous to Egypt from the time of the pharaohs.
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Jul 11 2008 7:11 AM

Great stuff you've got there and thanks for being friends!
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Karolina





Jul 3 2008 6:56 AM

You're great great great!!! Thank you for approving my request - I am honoured and very grateful.
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Jun 26 2008 7:11 PM

In Search Of A Rose - Kind Of Green

The Irish outlaw Reilly Ramones is not rambling along rainy green Irish valleys. This time he troubles the spotless under the hot Mexican sun and drowns Mariachi trumpets in Guinness.
Come and listen to the fine crossover of traditional irish tunes, Rock'n Roll and Hip Hop on the new album "Kind Of Green".
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Dave





Jun 24 2008 11:40 PM

Great music! Thanks for adding me, Dave.