Various Artists - Her Infinite Variety: Celtic Women In Music & Song

The most riveting Celtic Voices, beckoning you to lend an ear and lose your heart, have frequently belonged to women. Ancient accounts tell us that women tended to be the ones who'd call the work songs and choruses, narrate the big ballads, create the mouth music.

Disc1: 1) Ready For The Storm (Deanta)


2) Joe Ryan's Barn Dance Set (Cherish The Ladies)


3) The Briar And The Rose (Niamh Parsons And The Loose Connections


4) McFarley's/Mill Na Maidi (Altan)


5) Fisherman's Dream (Capercaillie)


6) The Air Tune/The Cliff Dwellers/Cutting The Waves (Trian)


7) Puirt A Beul (Sileas)


8) Jack Haggerty (Touchstone)


9) Cat's Meow/Partners In Crime (Joanie Madden)


10) Lord Mayo (Cherish The Ladies)


11) Siuil A Run (Reeltime)


12) Calum Breugach/The Devil In The Kitchen/Muileann Dubh/Sandy Cameron/Cape Breton Symphony's... (Eileen Ivers)


13) The Flower Of Magherally (Altan)


14) The New Land (Touchstone)


Disc 2:

1) Mouth Of The Tobique (Sharon Shannon)


2) When Barney Flew Over The HIlls (Relativity)


3) Clohinne Winds (Niamh Parsons And The Loose Connections)


4) The Okarina/The Tattoo (Open House)


5) Two Days To Go (Deanta)


6) The Sister's Reel/Wynding The Hay (Liz Carroll)


7) A Neansai Mhile Gra (Cherish The Ladies)


8) The Band Of Sheares (Carla Sciaky)


9) Jimmy Lyons'/Leslie Reel (Altan)


10) Unicorns (June Tabor/Martin Simpson)


11) The Humours Of Drinagh/Down The Back Lane (Maeve Donnelly)


12) Soraidh Bhuam Gu Barraidh (Capercaillie)


13) The Pipers (Sileas)


14) Invisible Wings/Faoilean (Touchstone)


15) Lament For Staker Wallace (Eileen Ivers)


16) My Own Native Land (Cherish The Ladies)