Mary Lester, Celtic harpist and singer

Recordings

The Enchanted Door, CD - $15, cassette $8 (Can be ordered by contacting me.)

Mary's first recording. Featured on Prairie Home Companion’s 1999 Towns Under 2000 (RealAudio format) website. It has also been favorably reviewed in the internationally circulated Folk Harp Journal, spring 1999 and fall 2000 issues; and has received repeated airplay on local public and Irish radio programs.

Selection: Song of the Wandering Angus, A Fairy’s Love Song, The Garten Mother’s Lullaby, The Butterfly, The Leprechaun, Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves, Silent O’Moyle, The Castle of Dromore, Sibeg Simor, The False Knight on the Road, The Great Silkie. Listen/download

Of Castles and Kings, November 2000. CD - $15 (CD can be ordered by contacting me.)

An extensive interview in the Folk Harp Journal, spring 2001 issue, follows on this 2nd recording, with a favaorable review. It often receives airplay on local radio programs.

Selections: Leezie Lindsay, The Death of Queen Jane, Over the Water, The Gypsy Rover, Anachee Gordon, The March of King Laois/Brian Boru’s March, Mary Hamilton, Jock o’ Hazeldean, The Outlandish Knight, The Skye Boat Song, Scots Wha Hae wi’ Wallace Bled, The Trees They do Grow High, Bonny Portmore, The Fair Flower of Northumberland, The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls/Ode/Langstern’s Pony. Listen/download

 

Playing The Gamut CD - $15 (CD can be ordered by contacting me.)

Given extensive local coverage in news media and on the air, a radio show host exclaimed: "Playing the Bamut is my facoritge and #1 Traditional Folk Album of 2004!" Another reviewer stated: "The album succeeds in getting the listener to try fresh perspectives on familiar material. The musicianship is excellent through out."

Selections: The Galway Rover, Wedding Dress, Peggy Gordon, Wild Hog In The Woods, 1st Rehearsal Interlude, The Danville Girl, The Barnyards Of Delgaty, The Spanish Lady, The Cuckoo, To The Weavers Gin Ye Go, Rain And Snow, I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me, Jean Harlow, Queer Bungo Rye, John Riley Listen/download

 

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