Album Notes

Wind that Shakes the Barley presents a tantalizing mixture of traditional music and folklore from the Celtic lands of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and beyond. Each performance radiates a warmth and vigor that has delighted legions of followers for many years. The Wind infuses high energy music with rolling rhythms, hypnotic arrangements, and stirring vocals.


Flute, whistles, fiddle, pipes, concertina, bozouki, guitar, bodhran, and vocals blend to dazzle audiences with fiery jigs, reels and songs that have a stunning freshness and vitality that's hard to resist. Entrancing stories of love, betrayal, country and nature have made audiences all over both laugh and cry. Hear Wind that Shakes the Barley on CD: "Celtic Field", "Fortune Turns the Wheel", Wind in the Sails & “Lough Rask”.

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