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The Blacksmith
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Very Celtic music played by a dedicated Band. Traditional songs and tunes plus original compositions combining their own multinational backgrounds whith the Cel
Band members: Heidi Sigfalk (violin, viola, guitar, voice), Stef Sigfalk (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, concertina, voice), Andreas Aeppli (bodhran, percussion, voice), Brendan Wade (uillean pipes, whistles, guitar, voice).
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Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
Charts
Peak #7
Peak in subgenre #1
Author
trad.
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Bow Triplets
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February 03, 2010
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MP3 6.3 MB • 192 kbps • 4:35
Story behind the song
This traditional song was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1904 from the singing of a Mrs Verral of Monks Gate near Horsham in Sussex. Here Brendan Wade interprets this old English song.
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Poitin
Feb 07, 2011
Hooray! At last something in the Celtic top ten which isn't synth-loaded 'new age'!! And a song from my home county too...How's it going guys? :-)
Thomas Trotter
Jan 02, 2011
I like all your stuff I've listened to so far, just so well done, inspired and inspiring, but this one has especially caught my ear. So, I make this comment. Maybe it's because I grew up in Kentucky and actually worked for a blacksmith for a while when I was very young.
ALEXIS PATRICK
Jun 22, 2010
Excellent musicianship and vocals.