by Catherine L. Tully

Artist: Various Artists/Marc Gunn's Irish & Celtic Music Podcast
Album: "Victims Of Irish Music"
Year produced: 2007

With a name that is just too cool, Marc Gunn has put together a stellar compilation album of music from his Irish & Celtic music podcast. This all-instrumental grouping features names such as Cady Finlayson, The Tea Merchants and Culann's Hounds on its musically-packed 17 tracks, and is a great highlight of some of the outstanding artists he has come across on the Celtic music scene.

Many of the names here will be familiar to Gunn's listeners, and "Old Grey Cat" is also included here from his work with The Dubliners' Tabby Cats, off the popular CD "Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers." The selections are varied, but all feature this style of music at its very best, from the delicate harp music of Thomas "Doc" Grauzer to the all-out energy provided by The Wild Clover Band on the first track here.

Grauzer had a roundabout hand in the naming of this CD, as he lent Gunn the book that contained the phrase, "victims of Irish music." The words referred to the failed attempt of the British to stomp out traditional music in Ireland. We all know that cannot and will not ever happen....

Listeners are in for a real experience here--there is fun, there is folly and there is beauty. It's nice to have all these artists together on one CD, and a good sampler disc for the uninitiated--or for those who just can't decide on one!

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Catherine L. Tully is a freelance writer and photographer who specializes in the arts. She has written for American Style and Classical Singer, among others and reviews music for Marc Gunn's Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. You can reach her through her photography website at www.moonbeamdigital.com.

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Posted by Marc Gunn, Tuesday, February 27, 2007.
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