Episode 517, The Emerald Isle

​This week on Wind & Rhythm, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day we’ll don some green, crack open a Guinness, and hear some wonderful Irish music arrangements for wind band.

Irish Folk Suite
  J.L.Molloy
  Hollywood Epic Brass, Kevin Kaska
Song of Lir
  Fergal Carroll
  Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville Wind Symphony,
  John Raymond Bell

Carrickfergus
  traditional; arr. Roberts
  Fountain City Brass Band, Lee Harrelson,
  euphonium soloist, Joseph Parisi
A Wexford Rhapsody
  Thomas Christopher Kelly
  Irish Symphonic Wind Orchestra, Liam Daly
Riverdance
  Bill Whelan
  Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Gary Cutt
​  & Major Peter Parkes
An Leannán
  Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
  Helen Davies, harp; Palle Mikkelborg, trumpet    
Finnegan's Wake
  Archibald James Potter
  Band of the Irish Defense Forces, Mark Armstrong
Mise Éire 
  Seán Ó’Riada
  Band of the Irish Defense Forces, Mark Armstrong
Danny Boy
  traditional 
  James Galway, flute; Phil Coulter, piano