{"id":47193,"date":"2025-09-27T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47193\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:50:15","slug":"cork-composer-and-singer-to-launch-new-trad-album-for-folk-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47193\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork composer and singer to launch new trad album for folk festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A new album of traditional songs in Irish and English will be launched next week as part of the 46th Cork Folk Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The collection, Seoda na Sean, by Cork traditional singer and musician P\u00e1draig Mac C\u00e1rthaigh, consists of a book and double CD, with an emphasis on songs from Carbery, as well as traditional music tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The album will be launched by Cork composer, singer and accordion player Con Fada \u00d3 Drisceoil in The Corner House on Coburg St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Mac C\u00e1rthaigh regularly plays in that hostelry on Tuesday evenings with fiddlers Seamus Sands, Matt Cranitch, and Garry Cronin; uilleann piper Desy McCabe, and many other musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A retired lecturer in physics at UCC, Mr Mac C\u00e1rthaigh\u2019s proficiency in sean-n\u00f3s singing developed over many years\u2019 participation in Peadar \u00d3 Riada\u2019s weekly Acadamh F\u00f3dhla at The Mills in Baile Bh\u00fairne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The album\u2019s full title is Seoda na Sean, Irish Songs c. 1650-1850 from Carbery, Muskerry and across South Munster, and among the songs are the full, 11-verse version of the Cork city ballad The Star of Sunday\u2019s Well, written by William B Guinee in 1879, and the 1990 song The Ordnance Survey Man by the late Deagl\u00e1n Tallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Instrumental tracks of fiddle and pipe music feature Seamus Sands, Garry Cronin, and Desy McCabe, while Colm Murphy, Seamus Sands, and P\u00e1draig\u2019s son Diarmait Mac C\u00e1rthaigh accompany several songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">One review of the album said: \u201cThe sweetness of the music and the beauty of the songs in this collection Seoda na Sean is exceptional. Everything about it is personal which is in itself a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mhol Peadar \u00d3 Riada an leabhar go hard chomh maith: \u201cI saothar seo Ph\u00e1draig Mhic C\u00e1rthaigh t\u00e1 baili\u00fach\u00e1n \u00e1lainn, iontach amhr\u00e1n. N\u00ed hamh\u00e1in focail na n-amhr\u00e1n at\u00e1 againn anseo ach a stair agus a n-uile eolas eile, bailithe le ch\u00e9ile chun sc\u00e9al na n-amhr\u00e1n f\u00e9in do thabhairt d\u00fainn sl\u00e1n ioml\u00e1n.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                Seoda na Sean will be launched at 6pm on Friday, October 3, in The Corner House, Coburg St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new album of traditional songs in Irish and English will be launched next week as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-47193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}