Wildgeese - Celtic Music of the Northwest
The Playlist
- Planxty Charles O’Conner/Kitty’s Wedding/Sonny Brogan’s (jigs)
- I Wish My Love Was a Red, Red Rose
- Star Above the Garter/Saint Patrick’s Day (jigs)
- Anach Cuain/The Blacksmith (air/song)
- The Bush in Bloom/Maud Miller/Russ’ Favorite/John in the Fog (reels)
- Bridget O’Malley
- Ryan’s/Scotch Mary/Sweeney’s Dream (reels)
- Undressed Melody (written by Kate Power)
- Mist Covered Mountain/Monaghan’s Jig (march/jig)
- Verdant Braes of Screen
- Wheels of the World/Maid in the Cherry Tree/Speed the Plow (reels)
RANDAL BAYS, fiddle
BILL BULICK, flutes, whistles
KATE POWER, vocals, harmonium, percussion, banjo
JIM CHAPMAN, bouzouki, whistles, harmonium
BARRY CRANNELL, guitar, mandolin
A rich memory in the life of music in Portland, Oregon, found and fanned in the restoration of the 1983 recording, Wildgeese: Celtic Music of the Northwest, produced by Mícheál Ó Dohmnaill and originally engineered by Michael O’Rourke, Grass Roots studio. Band members of Wildgeese are Kate Power, Jim Chapman, Bill Bulick, Barry Crannell & Randal Bays, members of Portland's folk music scene's institutional history galvanized Portland's place as one of the earliest and finest Irish sessions in the folk-club session scene, and triggered an ecstatic period of music and dance in a deep community of avid enthusiasts in Portland, Oregon. The music scene birthed in the 1980's remains intact and vital in Portland to this day,