Comments for Celtic Music Magazine

Comment on “Jus’ T’inkin!” a Celtic Music Blog by Jim O’Connor of Boston Blackthorne by Jim OConnor

Jim OConnor — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:37:53 +0000

Not a senior citizen but with our gray(ing) but full heads of hair we are entering “distinguished” territory! Thanks for coming out to the show next time we’ll have to get you up on stage.

Comment on “Jus’ T’inkin!” a Celtic Music Blog by Jim O’Connor of Boston Blackthorne by Jeff O

Jeff O — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:43:34 +0000

I was wearing my Boston Blackthorne t-shirt, but I am not a senior citizen. Am I?

Comment on “Jus’ T’inkin!” a Celtic Music Blog by Jim O’Connor of Boston Blackthorne by Jim OConnor

Jim OConnor — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:43:02 +0000

Thanks Jon- looking forward to our annual show at the Wherehouse in Holyoke MA in June.

Comment on “Jus’ T’inkin!” a Celtic Music Blog by Jim O’Connor of Boston Blackthorne by Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:20:49 +0000

Another great story Jim – amazingly, the tours never get old. Looking forward to St Pat’s 2013!!

Comment on 17 Free St. Patrick’s Day MP3s for 2012 by wolfkin

wolfkin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:38:50 +0000

I’m a sucker for tracks with vocals.. so I’m a huge fan of
“The Rocky Road to Dublin” and “Over Here Over There” just thought i’d say thanks again now that I’ve actually listened to it.

Comment on MP3: “St. Patrick’s Day Anthem” By Noel Nash and Danny O’Flaherty by Mike Carson Sr

Mike Carson Sr — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:46:53 +0000

Ausome to come off assignment then able to regroup to good home roots Music. Thank You

Comment on 17 Free St. Patrick’s Day MP3s for 2012 by wolfkin

wolfkin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:45:40 +0000

whew.. glad I made it. I still rock this album from last year. Ceann’s “Almost Irish” makes me laugh to this day. Thanks again guys.

Comment on “Just T’inkin’” a Celtic Music Blog by Jim O’Connor of Boston Blackthorne by Jack OConnor

Jack OConnor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:39:22 +0000

Jim O’Connor rocks it every day all day, Celtic style!

Comment on The South Wind by John Longstreet

John Longstreet — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:43:17 +0000

JED:
I have spoken to you a couple of times about our common interest in love of Celtic Music and the Civil War. What you do, blending them together, is pure magic. Good luck with this project. Can’t wait to add it to my collection.
The song, “Mama’s Lily,”with it’s haunting lyrics, is one of my favorite. I use it in my Civil War Unit to prompt a writing exercise about soldiers and civilians experiencing the war.
I’ve had many of eyes well up in students as they listen to the song — proof of the talent of the singer/storyteller you are! Thank You Sir and keep producing your music.

Comment on MP3: “Time to Remember the Poor” By Jennifer Cutting’s OCEAN Orchestra by Jennifer Cutting

Jennifer Cutting — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:56:41 +0000

Thanks for featuring my arrangement of turn-of-the century broadside ballad “Time to Remember the Poor.” Here’s some info on the song from our liner notes: “In the 1990s, Hungry For Music founder Jeff Campbell asked Jennifer to come up with a new recording of a “winter” song for a holiday compilation CD. Conveniently, while Jennifer was assisting a researcher in the Library of Congress American Folklife Center Archive, the book she was holding, Frank Kidson’s Traditional Tunes (1891), fell open to the song Time to Remember the Poor. Although she felt that the tune Kidson collected was inappropriately jaunty for the solemn text, she knew this song was “the one.” She slowed down the tempo, changed the meter, eliminated the tune’s chromatic flourishes, and conflated several texts. Her transformation of this traditional broadside song creates a bleak, eerie, wintry feeling that complements the foreboding lyrics. To complement the “death is the great leveler” theme of this broadside, Jennifer envisioned a kind of gothic psychedelia, and so persuaded Grammy-winning acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Al Petteway to pick up the electric guitar.”