Discography...

Tangled Up:
Welcome to the latest installment in the Mithril discography! The four of us played our first concert together in January of 2003 and it has been an extremely exciting and musically rewarding musical quest ever since. As the band has explored a variety of material ranging from Irish traditional repertoire to covers of some of our favorite rock tunes, we have figured out how to "Mithrilize" it all to take our listeners on a musical adventure filled with equal parts energy, expression and fun!

The selections on this CD include some that we've played from the band's beginnings (Lord of the Rings Set and Ashokan Farewell, a very frequent request by our fans) which have aged well like fine wines over time. However, some of our newest sets (The Rocking Chairs and Chicken Fingers in the Chapel) give a different insight into our collective tangled and twisted creative process. As we have been performing frequently with orchestras over the past few years, we also wanted to provide our listeners a taste of that with string arrangements on Captain O'Kane, Ashokan Farewell and the American Set. We want to offer our sincere thanks to all of our Mithril friends and family for all of your fantastic support since the very beginnings of our journey. Enjoy!!!!

1. The Rocking Chairs: I'll Buy Boots for Maggie/Hide 'n' Seek With Helen/The Chair at Western Drive
2. Josefin's Waltz
3. The Green Hills of Tyrol/The 30 Year Jig
4. Archibald McDonald of Keppoch/The Jug of Punch
5. Earl's Chair/Temperance Reel/Swinging on a Gate
6. The Mountains of Pomeroy
7. Calliope House/The Cowboy Jig
8. Captain O'Kane (The Wounded Hussar)
9. Chicken Fingers in the Chapel: Granny Hold the Candle While I Shave the Chicken's Lips/Wrapped Around Your Finger/Heaton Chapel
10. Lord of the Rings Set: Concerning Hobbits/In Dreams/Bilbo's Birthday Party
11. Santiago
12. Music for a Found Harmonium
13. Tangled Up In Blue/John Ward's Jigs
14. Ashokan Farewell
15. American Set: Soldier's Joy/St. Anne's Reel/The Redhaired Boy/Kitchen Girl

 

The Return Home:
So many great things have happened to us since our last CD! We have been busy over the last two years playing throughout the United States both in chamber style concerts and with symphony orchestras. Basically, we've been having a blast performing here and yonder and really enjoyed the chance to return home to work on this project. We're extremely proud of this CD, because it was a true collaboration between the four of us. Everybody came up with great ideas which contributed to a whole that we feel reflects us at our musical best. We hope you enjoy...

Track Listing: (Click on the underlined links to hear samples.)
1. Sparky at the Wheel
2. The Little Lady
3. The Otter's Holt/The Star of Munster
4. The Ale is Dear/The Road to Kerrigoarch/The Boarding House Jig
5. The Trip to Skye/Brenda Stubbert's/The Hunter's Purse/Tommy People's
6. The Good Natured Man/The H.O.F.
7. Da Slockit Light/The Jig of Slurs
8. Dunmore Lasses/Castle Kelly
9. The Cliffs of Moher/Norwegian Wood
10. Rachra Polka Set: The Rushy Mountain/The Newmarket/The Cullane
11. Return to Roan Inish: Fiona Explores/The Banks of Lough Gowna/Fergal O'Gara's
12. Traditional Gaelic Melody
13. Dans an Dro/Bartók/Macedonian Tune
14. The Poet of Tolstoy Park
15. Crabs in the Skillet/Dusty Windowsill/The Return Home

 

Live In Concert:
In the summer of 2004, while working on our Winter's Day CD, we came up with the idea to use previously recorded concerts to make an official live 'bootleg" CD. We had enough material to use, but just to be certain, we scheduled a concert for Sept. 21. Hurricane Ivan hit the coast on Sept. 16. Could we have a concert five days later? After much discussion, we went on as planned. And it was astounding. The band and the audience were charged with electricity - even though much of the Gulf Coast was still without! The concert was a celebration and it became the basis for most of this CD. We hope you enjoy our first "official bootleg" CD.

Track Listing: (Click on the underlined links to hear samples.)
1. Little Beggarman/Drowsy Maggie/Cooley's Reel (3:44)
2. The Turning of the Season (3:30)
3. Bugga Fee Hoosa/Girls Have You Seen George?/Toss the Feathers/The Fairy Dance (7:10)
4. Genvieve's Waltz (3:12)
5. Quebec Reels: Reel de Chicoutimi/Reel St.Jean/Reel Éboulement/Dionne Reel (6:08)
6. Roan Inish Set: Theme from Roan Inish/The Mist Covered Mountain/The Butterfly/The Musical Priest/Over the Moor to Maggie/The Bucks of Oranmore (9:25)
7. Wild Geese/Empty Pockets (5:50)
8. American Set: Soldier's Joy/St. Anne's Reel/The Redhaired Boy/The Kitchen Girl (4:41)
9. Brigid O'Malley (4:45)
10. Lord of the Rings Set: Concerning Hobbits/In Dreams/Bilbo's Birthday Party (4:54)
11. Danse de Mardi Gras (2:54)
12. Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife/A Fig for a Kiss/The Choice Wife (4:20)
13. Kashmir/Bacchanale/Tam Lin (7:31)
14. Blarney Pilgrim/John Ryan's Polka - performed with the Mobile Symphony (3:44)

 

Winter's Day:
Mithril's CD, Winter's Day, is a Celtic celebration of winter and the holiday season. While many of the tunes on the CD are associated with Christmas, some evoke other, older traditions that were present in the Celtic nations before the coming of Christianity. The music on Winter's Day includes heartfelt slow airs, high-energy jigs and reels, and a few exotic surprises. We bet you'll enjoy this CD throughout the year.

Track Listing: (Click on the underlined links to hear samples.)
1. I Saw Three Ships/As I Sat on a Sunny Bank/Gooding Carol
2. Winter's Day
3. Christmas Day ida Moarnin'/Frost & Snow/The Piper in the Meadow Straying
4. The Wishing Tree
5. Galician Carol
6. Greensleeves/What Reel is This?/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
7. The Wexford Carol
8. Khanike Freylekhs
9. Appalachian Set: I Wonder As I Wander/The Cherry Tree Carol/Jesus Born in Bethn'y
10. The Merry Christmas Jig/Masters in This Hall/All Around the Holly Tree
11. The Cutty Wren/To Drive the Cold Winter Away
12. Christmas Eve Reel/New Christmas/The Gravel Walks

 

Banish Misfortune: (Click on the underlined links to hear samples.)

1. Bugga Fee Hoosa/Girls have You Seen George/Toss the Feathers/Fairy Dance
2. Inis Oirr - Inishere
3. Cat's Meow
4. Boys of the Lough/Jenny Picking Cockles/Julia Delaney
5. Crested Hens
6. Garret Barry's/Geese in the Bog/Banish Misfortune
7. Carrickfergus/Sidhe Beag & Sidhe Mor
8. Two North Highland Country Dances
9. The Celtic Silk Road
10. Paddy on a Handcar/Eel Pot/Lannigan's Ball
11. Kilkenny Bridge
12. Reel of Tulloch

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