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Blind Orion
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The Lesl & Mike duo from college. Mike put our music from the local folk venues onto tape. Mike Metz: arranger, vocals, lead guitar, electric bass. Lesl: composer, vocals, second guitar, fingerpicking.
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Lesl Harker, Irish flute - Teacher and player of the traditional Irish concert flute, Lesl specializes in teaching the repertoire and fluid old-style music of East County Galway. She serves as an Irish-flute mentor for the PA, SC and NJ State Arts Councils' Apprenticeship programs, and teaches privately. The "Tunes & Tales of Old East Galway" programs ran from 2011-2023, most with piper Jerry O'Sullivan. Drawn from long apprenticeship to legendary flute player Mike Rafferty, a relationship which lasted to the end of his life, she published two award-winning Rafferty tune books beginning in 2005, with an award for them in 2009 from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the international Irish music association. Contact Lesl at https://iflute.weebly.com/ for more information and lessons.
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#19,156 today Peak #192
#4,206 in subgenre Peak #42
Author
Lesl Harker & Mike Metz
Rights
1972 Lesl Harker & Mike Metz
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December 05, 2003
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MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 2:58
Story behind the song
It was a home-grown affair. Mike took the music we played in the college coffeehouses and local folk venues, and with a lot of ingenuity, put it onto tape, mistakes and all. This one was recorded at ODO studios in NYC by a soup-kitchen full of recording engineer students. Inspired by the painting "Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun", 1658, by Nicolas Poussin [French Baroque Era Painter, 1594-1665]. See the painting, online at .
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