CDs recorded by John Hadden -- Caitriona O'Leary - Irish Songs of Love and Nature

Irish Songs of Love and Nature

Dúlra
Caitriona O'Leary - voice
Christopher Layer - uilleann pipes, flute
Robert Mealy - fiddle
Jay Elfenbein - viol
with
Mel Mercier - percussion

Soon to be released on EMI/Virgin Classics, Dúil is a collection of songs with the theme of Love and Nature. It includes such humdingers as "Dúlamán", "Tiocfaidh an Samhradh" ("The Summer will Come"), and "Suibhne 'sna Coillte" ("Sweeney in the Woods") which is sung to a tune collected by Patrick O'Leary, the cousin of her great-grandfather, in Graignamanagh, Co. Kilkenny around the year 1880.