The Long Irish Night
Derek Hickey, Mick O’Brien, Ciara Ní Bhriain
Derek Hickey concertina
Mick O’Brien uilleann pipes
Ciara Ní Bhriain violin
Birkin Tree
Laura Torterolo vocals, guitar
Tom Stearn voce, guitar, bouzouky
Fabio Rinaudo uilleann pipes, whistles
Michel Balatti Irish flute
Luca Rapazzini violin
Dervish
Brian McDonagh mandola, mandolin
Liam Kelly flute, tin whistle
Tom Morrow violin
Shane Mitchell Irish accordion
Cathy Jordan vocals, bodhrán
Michael Holmes bouzouki
production Ravenna Festival
Italian exclusive
Bagpipes, violins, flutes, exhilarating percussion and ancient stringed instruments. Irish folk music is a mixture of simplicity and complexity: one of the most vital and distinctive traditions in Europe, capable of sowing fruitful seeds in Italy, a bastion of popular music in the original sense of the word. The festive and proud spirit of the songs and dances that, like a ritual, come back to fill the summer nights on the banks of the Lamone river, has for decades been evidence of an unquenchable fire that has also seduced many rock champions and singer-songwriters. Let’s return to this source to drink from it, rediscovering its vitality and a desire that is more relevant than ever: the desire for brotherhood, which grows stronger the more the individual identities of those who form it are emphasised.
