Patricia Rushton: Music
(Open The Door Softly)
Lord Galloway's Lamentation
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Another beautiful composition by Ireland's blind harper Turlough O' Carolan (1670-1738)
At a Wedding I First Saw My Love (S'ann air banail an tus)
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
A Scottish Gaelic air in the Dorian mode. The melody is from a manuscript discovered in a second-hand bookshop and published as the 'Angus Fraser Collection of Scottish Gaelic Airs' (1996).
War Cry of Munster
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
A march from the southernmost of Ireland's early provinces.
Fanny Power
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
A composition in the Italian baroque style by the best known of the ancient Irish harpers. Turlough O' Carolan (1670-1738). Carolan was blinded by smallpox when he was eighteen and soon joined the tradition of blind itinerant harpers in Ireland.
Caitlin Triall
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
"Caitlin Triall" or "Kitty Tyrrel" is from Bunting's first collection (1796). Expansive and beautiful, it reminds me of a bird in flight swooping up then gliding down.
Cuillin of Rhum
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
A song I've loved for many years about the island of Rhum in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.
Black-Headed Deary
(Traditional, Arranged/Performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Open the Door Softly
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Auld Wife Ayond the Fire
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Is Fada Liom Uaim I
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Grandmother Moon
(Composed & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Clara Burke
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
The Gentle Maiden
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Love Be Near Me
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
October 15, 2005
The Pleasant Rocks
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
My Own Dear One's Gone
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
Molly St. George
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton)
August 5, 2003
The Bottom of the Punch Bowl
(Trad. Arranged & performed by Patricia Rushton & Debra Farris)
August 5, 2003