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Karan Casey with SARAH Watkins.

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It is good that someone has re-posted this video of Karan Casey's performance of Beat of My Heart from BBC television's Highland Sessions.



The performers are:

Karan Casey - vocals
Niall Vallely -- concertina
Donald Shaw -- Piano
Iain MacDonald - bodhrán
Allan MacDonald -- mouth organ
Allan Henderson - fiddle
Dermot Byrne -- button accordion
Steve Cooney - guitar
Trevor Hutchinson - bass

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Karan Casey live at Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

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This is Lúnasa with Karan Casey, founding member of Solas, and Sara Watkins of Nickle Creek.

The songs are Four Loom Weavers and Another Day.

Lúnasa will be appearing at the Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville on March 6 as a part of their annual Celtic music series. Also appearing will be Irish group Grada on March 22, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas on April 12 and Buille on May 22.

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Here is a video by Karan Casey that was up on YouTube then got yanked then was up again then got yanked again and now is back. So here it is again.

The sond is Buile Mo Chroí (Beat of My Heart) from the CD The Winds Begin to Sing.

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Karan Casey and her band at the Kennedy Center in October of this year. The song is Distant Shore from the CD Distant Shore.

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Karan Casey sings A Chomaraigh Aoibhinn O on the BBC's Highland Sessions.

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This is my favorite Karan Casey number. It is called Buile Mo Chroi (The Beat of My Heart). It is from her CD The Winds Begin to Sing.

Here are the lyrics:

Music - John Spillane, Words - Louis De Paor. (Arr. Karan Casey/Donald Shaw/Robbie Overson/Mike McGoldrick)

An gcloiseann tú bualadh mo chroí
Buile mo chroí
Greadadh mo chroí
An gcloiseann tú greadadh mo chroí

Are you hearing the beat of my heart
The bang of my heart
The scrape of my heart
Are you hearing the scrape of my heart

An mbraitheann tú cuisle mo chroí
I dtearmann do lámha
I ngéibheann do ghrá
An mbraitheann tú cuisle mo chroí

Are you feeling the pulse of my heart
In the palm of your hand
In the jail of your love
Are you feeling the pulse of my heart

Tá botún sa tsaol
Nach maithim do Dhia
An ghrian i do shúil
Ag teacht idir mé agus solas an lae
Tá botún sa tsaol

There’s a fault in this world
And I won’t forgive God
The sun in your eye
That comes between me and the light of the sky
There’s a fault in this world

An gcloiseann tú bualadh mo chroí
Buile mo chroí
Briseadh mo chroí
An gcloiseann tú briseadh mo chroí

Are you hearing the beat of my heart
The pain of my heart
The break of my heart
Are you hearing the break of my heart

Tá cóta an athar
Ró-mhór dá mhac
A bhróga caite
Ar chosa mo mhic
Ag bualadh mo chroí
Greadadh mo chroí
Stracadh mo chroí
An mbraitheann tú caitheamh mo chroí

Your old man’s coat
Is too big for you boy
His worn out shoes
On the feet of my son
Kicking my heart
Breaking my heart
A tearing my heart
Are you wearing the tear of my heart

Tá cóta an athar
Ró-mhór dá mhac
A bhróga caite
Ar chosa mo mhic
Ag bualadh mo chroí
Greadadh mo chroí
Stracadh mo chroí
An mbraitheann tú caitheamh mo chroí

Your old man’s coat
Is too big for you boy
His worn out shoes
On the feet of my son
Kicking my heart
Breaking my heart
A tearing my heart
Are you wearing the tear of my heart

Sioscadh mo chroí
Doirteadh mo chroí,
An gcloiseann tú doirteadh mo chroí
Ciúnas mo chroí
Uaigneas mo chroí
An gcloiseann tú uaigneas mo chroí
Cogar a chroí

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Here is Irish-American group Solas perfroming Newry Highwayman from their self titled first CD. The singer here is Deirdre Scanlan, the band's current vocalist. The original singer was Karan Casey, who sings this song on the band's 10th anneversery CD/DVD Reunion: A Decade of Solas .

This performance is from the Grassroots festival in Trumansburg, N.Y.

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This is emerging Irish-American supergroup Solas performing On A Sea Of Fleur De Lis from their new CD/DVD release Reunion: A Decade of Solas .

Origianal band member Karan Casey re-joines the group for several of the songs which she originally recorded with them.

This CD/DVD set is a very good value in that you get an extended length CD plus a full concert on DVD with extra interviews and several songs which didn't make it on to the CD.

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My local public radio station has a really good Celtic music program on Sunday afternoon and I heard this Karen Casey song on my way home from lunch today and was reminded how much I love it. So here it is even though I have posted it before.

This is Another Day from the CD Distant Shore . Karen is backed up by Sara Wakins of Nickel Creek and the band Lunasa.

Lunasa is coming to Asheville in March of next year!!!!!

This post is dedicated to Beth. I hope it does some tiny little thing to lift your spirits.

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This is Karan Casey singing Buile Mo Chroi (which means either "The Pain in My Heart or The Beat of My Heart) from her CD The Winds Begin to Sing.

I had posted this video a few months ago, but the link became dead so I am reposting it. I want those who link in for the music posts to continue to have access to it.

Notice that Donald Shaw is playing the piano on this video. He also is on the CD along with Michael McGoldrick on the pipes. The singing is in both English and Gaelic and the overall "feel" of the song is a kind of Celtic roadhouse blues.

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Karan Casey and Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek) performing the song Another Day with the group Lunasa.