Celtic Folkweave [SEP] performer
Celtic Folkweave
Celtic Folkweave is a studio album by Mick Hanly and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, released in 1974 by Polydor Records. Considered a seminal album in the traditional Irish music genre, the musicians involved in the recording would go on to found some of the most innovative and important groups to perform traditional Irish music.
Recorded in Ireland in 1974, "Celtic Folkweave" consists of Irish, Scottish, and English ballads, sung in Irish ("Gaeilge"), Scottish Gaelic ("Gàidhlig"), and English
Folkweave" an "excellent album" and a precursor to Ó Dhomhnaill's work with The Bothy Band and Nightnoise. Reis found the production "adequate", but not up to the standard of the material he would produce a year later for The Bothy Band.
Aftermath.
All of the musicians on "Celtic Folkweave" would go on to make notable contributions to the Irish and Celtic music genres, with Molloy, Lunny, Ní Dhomhnaill, Ó Domhnaill, and Peoples ending up in The Bothy Band, one of