Help! Ideas for Whistle CD's for Christmas List

NancyF · Post by **NancyF** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:10 pm

Maybe you are in this situation: my parents are demanding a Christmas hint list and if I don't give them one soon, I'll get a tablecloth and new sheets from Santa.

I haven't bought any whistle CDs in several years and my collection is seriously outdated. Any suggestions for traditional or folk music of any genre featuring whistles or their ethnic relatives (not r******* or low whistle) issued in the last few years?

What are your favorites and why? How would you describe the CD?

Thank you for saving me from the tablecloth!

NancyF

finkelsj · Post by **finkelsj** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:25 pm

Some ideas....

Feadoga Stain, Feadoga Stain 2 : Mary Bergin
A Whistle on the Wind, Song of the Irish Whistle, Song of the Irish Whistle 2: Joanie Madden
Tin Whistles : Paddy Moloney & Sean Potts
The Irish Low Whistle : Joe Mckenna

NancyF · Post by **NancyF** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:15 pm

Thank you for a nice list. I have those, but others may not. Anything new out there? I'd take groups that have whistling on their CD too.

NancyF

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 5:24 pm

NancyF wrote:Thank you for a nice list. I have those, but others may not. Anything new out there? I'd take groups that have whistling on their CD too.

NancyF

Will you accept flute? I find as much to interest me (and want to learn) in good flute music as in whistle-only recordings.

If you don't have them, let me heartily recommend the "Wooden Flute Obsession" set. Cathal McConnell's "Long Expectant Comes at Last" CD, and Catherine McEvoy's "Traditional Flute Music in the Sligo-Roscommon Style"

I'm listening to the McEvoy CD as I type this; if I ever can play with half fluidity and feeling she brings out I'll be thrilled.

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:57 pm

Insist that they get you the King Kwela CD by Spokes Mashiyane. That ought to keep them busy...

Whistlin'Dixie · Post by **Whistlin'Dixie** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 8:06 pm

Although I have picked up some really good finds at Music Wherehouse, just so they know that most of these suggestions are not going to be found sitting on the shelf at Best Buy.......

Mary

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:41 pm

I second the Spokes Mishiyane, probably the only classic kwela CD freely available at the moment—a very sad situation.

Best whistle heavy CD released recently would be Pipeline by Dermot Hyde and Tom Hake and now with a US distributer. Hake plays guitar and 'zouk while Hyde plays whistles (and pipes when he's being Dr. Jekyll). This is a moving and beautiful CD a class above Lunasa and Flook and the like if you are looking just for beautiful, funny, haunting uncontrived whistle music.

Oh, if you don't have them already, the Lunasa and Flook CDs are very good (if a bit overarranged for ITM purists) and Kate Rusby's 'Sleepless' features some fine whistle playing but always secondary to her vocals. There is also a McSherry and McGoldrick CD whose name escapes me but is well worth getting.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:26 pm

NancyF wrote:Maybe you are in this situation: my parents are demanding a Christmas hint....

Actually I already had something to tell my parents...

The Paddy O'Brian Tune collection, but that is mostly for Box players.

I haven't bought any whistle CDs in several years and my collection is seriously outdated. Any suggestions for traditional or folk music of any genre featuring whistles or their ethnic relatives (not r******* or low whistle) issued in the last few years?

You might want to check out www.celticgrooves.com... they have their CDs broken out by group and by instrument so all the albums that feature tin-whistle or tin-whistle and another insturment (an awful lot of flutes) are in their own category.

--
Bill

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:36 pm

Why wouldn't the Paddy O'Brian collection be appropriate for all instruments? I know I've looked at it greedily in the past...

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:16 am

Tin Whistles, Paddy Maloney & Sean Potts is a good one. There's also L.E. McCullough's Feadanista.

-- Dan M.

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:06 am

You might suggest "The Winding Road" by Martina Bree, a nice selection of tunes played on Generation D and C whistles. The best price I noticed was at Andy's Front Hall.

dlambert · Post by **dlambert** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:18 am

Gavin Whelan's - Traditional Irish Music
Mick O'Brien's - The May Morning Dew (mostly piping, but great whistle)
Carmel Gunning - The Lakes of Sligo
Mike & Mary Rafferty - The Old Fireside Music (box, flute and whistle)

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:20 am

Almost forgot this must-have -- Micho Russell, Ireland's Whistling Ambassador.

-- Dan M.

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:31 am

I recently heard a little bit of a track by Sarah Bauhan, and then discovered this:

http://www.chiffandfipple.com/sarahbauhan.htm

Highly recommended!

Carol

pthouron · Post by **pthouron** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:39 am

Wombat wrote:Oh, if you don't have them already, the Lunasa and Flook CDs are very good (if a bit overarranged for ITM purists) and Kate Rusby's 'Sleepless' features some fine whistle playing but always secondary to her vocals. There is also a McSherry and McGoldrick CD whose name escapes me but is well worth getting.

I second Flook and Lunasa. The McSherry/McGoldrick album's name is "At First Light" and is indeed well worth getting (great whistling and piping). I also really like Fred Morrison's "Up South": again, primarily pipes but great low whistling as well.

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