Kay Proffitt, accordion and vocals,
Trish Featherstone, fiddle,
David Wojnowski, banjo and bodhran/percussion,
Bill Walker flute, tin whistle, and guitar,
Christine Fraser Ramsey, vocals and celtic harp.
We are also lucky enough to have special guest musicians occasionally join us, such as NARADA recording artist and composer, John Whelan. John is also the 7 time all-Ireland button box champion.
Heartstone is a Celtic band that has acclaim in traditional Irish dance music and traditional Scottish (or Highland) dance music.
Heartstone plays a range of songs, and they enjoy performing traditional ballads to soothe the soul as well as lively dance music to get your toes to tap. They promote Celtic culture through their preservation of the traditional jigs, reels, songs, ballads, and tunes.
All of us like listening to music and each one of us has our individualistic preferences. We have at times listened to the Go-Gos in a car or sang the Melody; ourselves at our graduation. We may have listened to Ode to Joy at a wedding and heard Bruce Springsteen or Madonna while in college. Even though tastes differ, each one of us listens to music and has a favorite type of music and a favorite singer or band.
Music is not only fun but also gratifying. It has a soothing effect on the listener and calms the nerves. Music touches our lives in various ways that are sometimes conspicuous and sometimes subtle. And that is the reason why it is uncommon to find someone who does not listen to any kind of music.
Dentists play music in their waiting rooms and clinics. Many operation theatres have channel music running. Drivers prefer to drive through a maze of unending traffic while listening to music and even baseball players have been known to hum along during warm-up. These days most corporate houses have unobtrusive instrumental music playing in their offices all the time. This reduces job stress.
It seems that the reason why music has a comforting effect on us is because it reminds us of the first time we heard it in our mother’s womb. Thus it provides us with a sense of security and well being. Many researches have been done on the physiological aspect of music and it has been discovered that Celtic or Native American music wherein the flute dominates is most relaxing. The serotonin in the body increases with the effect of music and this provides us with a feeling of elevation. Music also is known to reduce the heart rate and increase body temperature. In fact it has also been found out that any kind of music performed in person helps to put the left and the right brain in sync. Those performing also go through a cathartic effect and get a sense of accomplishment.
There are ways in which one can enhance this effect of music. The best way to de-stress yourself is to lie back with a pair of headphones and become a part of the music. Select music that has a pace slower than 72 minutes per minute. This will ease your heartbeat and relax you. Combine music with your morning walk and you will feel doubly rejuvenated by combining the goodness of exercise and music.
Sounds of nature are music to the ears and they can have a similar effect. Sit back on the garden bench and hear the music of the birds, the cricket, the wind and the rustling leaves. You can also find the sounds of the woods or the ocean captured in a CD these days.
Choose any kind of music that you like for relaxation. It is important that you enjoy the general hum and beat of the chosen music to be able to extract the maximum benefit. In our normal lives, we tend to get too busy in our past paced lives to take enough advantage of this cathartic effect of euphony.
Ken Snow
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/relax-with-your-favorite-music-style-59353.html
Bob Dylan could never be called a Celtic artist but some Celtic musical influences show up on early Dylan bootlegs and recordings.
Dylan’s roots are strongly entrenched in the early protest and folk music movements of 1960s America. Although early works are reminiscent of Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams and Pete Seegar, he draws from country, Blues, Appalachian and Celtic music too.
While the Celtic influences don’t stand out on his early official albums, it can be found in the grooves of some early bootlegs. These recordings of his early experiments with music show how he took all of his influences and molded them into his own sound.
There is no question that Bob Dylan is a poet of the highest order and a Celtic poet influenced his name. He changed from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan in 1959 when he started performing taking his new last name from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
Hello my friends
It is not only a video
it is not only a poem
it is only a music
but, it is only my life.
J’ai érit ce poème il y a quelques jours d’une traite, vers 5 heures du matin; pourquoi? Freud doit sans doute le savoir :-))
Cette musique de Carolan s’est imposée à l’évidence pour l’illustrer , un monument foundateur pour la musique celtique ou l’on retrouve tout ce qu’on aime. C’est la dernière pièce qu’il joua sur sa Harpe avant de quitter ce monde en 1738: “O’Carolan’s Farewell to music”
Merci à pascal Bournet pour sa transcription qui m’a servi de support, j’ai fait quelques ajouts (éditions transatlantiques)
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Mal, Ray, Andrew and friends enjoy their monthly celtic music jam
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You might think a question that included Celtic music and potty training puppies would be the start of a bad joke. Far from it. Two years ago, a friend of mine got a new puppy and it was very high strung. Anything would make her jump. And, when she was startled, there’d be an accident.
However, he discovered sometime very interesting to solve this problem. Every time he played a CD with soft Celtic music, the dog calmed down. The more he played the calmer she became. Soon, she wasn’t affected by any of the things that upset her before. And, the accidents stopped.
Today, the dog is as calm as can be. My friend’s sister said the dog just outgrew the problem. My friend is convinced it was the power of the music. So am I.
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