Favourite Non-Cottars songs

[Ginny]

Hey guys!!

Well, we've all determined our favourite Cottars songs, over on the polls, but I was wondering, what songs do you all like, that aren't by the Cottars? Celtic, and non-Celtic. I'll start us off I guess.

In no preference

Celtic first
Pretty much anything by GBS
Mull River Shuffle, by the Rankin Family
Misty Moisty Morning
Orange and the Green, by the Irish Rovers
Sonny's Dream-Ron Hynes

and now I'm having a brain freeze, so I'll switch over to non-Celtic

Fairytale of New York-The Pogues. This could be considered Celtic because The Pogues are an Irish band, but meh, who cares
Over the Hills-Nightwish. Amazing band.
Without You-The Ennis Sisters
Wherever you will go-The Calling
Fields of Gold-Sting
Don't feel like dancing-The Scissor Sisters
Dancing Queen-ABBA

Those are just a few examples. I'll think of more later

Post away!
Ginny

[Joe]

Hi Ginny!

Other Celtic artists that I like are The Corrs, The Irish Tenors, Enya.

As well as having this forum for The Cottars, I am a global moderator for the Hayley Westenra International forum to which Roger is admin of. Hayley mainly classical crossover with a mix of hymns, new age, and showtunes

Favourite Hayley Westenra songs
-Across the Universe of Time
-Dell' Amore Non Si Sa
-I Dreamed a Dream
-Never Saw Blue
-May It Be

I also like the music of the Von Trapp Children. They are grandchildren of the real family that 'The Sound of Music' was based on. They sing spiritual and traditional songs and "The Sound of Music" material.

Favourite VTC songs
-Wayfaring Stranger
-Down to the River
-Carol of the Birds
-Prayer for Papa
-Show the Way

I LOVE Sting's 'Fields of Gold' Ginny! I have ABBA's Gold cd...SOS, Fernando, etc.

I will probably add more artists to my list !

Joe

[afanoffiona]

Hey Ginny!

Wow, what a great topic! Here is my list:

Look at the World-Rutter
Gloria-Rutter
Requiem-Rutter
The Skylark-Traditional
Si Beag Si Mor-Traditional
Be Thou My Vision [Slane]-Traditional
Fairest Lord Jesus-Gesangbuch
What Wonderious Love is This?-American Folk Hymn
Near the Cross-Crosby
The Island-MacNeil
Somedays-McCann
Love So Rare-Guthro
To Say Goodbye To You-Moccio and MacLauchlan
Bigger than Me-Debison
Had to Grow Up-Debison
Life-Debison
Faze-Debison
Symphony No.9-Beethoven
Symphony No.2-Mahler
Symphony No.8-Mahler
Piano Concerto No.3-Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G Minor-Rachmaninoff
The Sunken Cathedral-Debussy
Cantata no.147-J.S. Bach
Mass in C Minor-Mozart
Requiem-Mozart
Die Zauberflote-Mozart
Missa Solemnis-Beethoven
The Nutcracker-Tchaikovsky
The Messiah-Handel
La Boheme-Puccini
Madam Butterfly-Puccini
Jupiter from "The Planets"-Holst
Chorale from "Die Meistersinger"-Wagner
Molly Malone-Traditional
Danny Boy-Traditional
Alas I see Your Lovely Face-Traditional
Irish Lullaby-Traditional
When Irish Eyes are Smiling-Traditional
Oceano-Leo Z and Sandri
Mi Mancherai (Il Postino)-Bacalov
Si Volvieras A Mi-Derendorf, Portmann, and Brant
Per Te-Groban
Broken Vow-Fabian and Afanasieff
Caruso-Dalla
Remember When it Rained-Groban
Masterpiece-Patty and Henderson
That's the Love of God-McHugh and Nelson

I will probably think of more later. This is all I can come up with for now.

God Bless,
afanoffiona

[Adam]

My turn. I am a huge fan of Celtic and Caltic-like music and here's a list of my faves:

Celtic music and folk singers I like from ireland, Scotland, and England:

Altan (Irish)
Silly Wizard (Scottish)
Archie Fisher (Scottish singer)
Battlefield Band (Scottish)
Blazin Fiddles (Scottish fiddle group)
Cherish the Ladies (Irish)
Cheiftains (Irish)
Craobh Rua (Irish)
Danu (Irish)
Eileen Ivers (Irish fiddle)
Waterson:Carthy (english folk)
Jean Redpath (Scottish singer)
Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies (english folk singer)
Celtic Fiddle Festival (Iriah and Canadian fiddle)
Liz Carroll and John Doyle (irish fiddle)
Lunasa (irish)
Martin Simpson (english folk singer)
Nic Jones (english folk singer)
Old Blind Dogs (scottish)
Ossian (scottish)
Solas (irish)
Teada (irish)
Tannahill Weavers (scotttish)

Canadian folk groups and folk singers I like:

April Verch (Ottawa fiddle)
Barachois (PEI group)
Barra MacNeils (Cape Breton group)
Beolach (Cape Breton group)
Cottars (obviously on this list)
Stan Rogers (canadian folk singer)
Garnet Rogers (canadian folk singer)
Great Big Sea (the best ever)
James Keelaghan (vanadian folk singer)
Joe Cormier (cape breton fiddle)
Le Vent du Nord (quebec)
La Bottine Souruente (quebec)
Natalie MacMaster (cape breton fiddle)
The Paperboys (vancouver celtic/bluegrass/spanish band)
Quagmyre (fiddle rock and step[dancing from ottawa)

What I like in the USA:

Beaosoleil (cajun)
Bela Fleck (banjo)
Bruce Molsky (bluegrass fiddle)
Crooked Still (bluegrass)
Darol Anger and the Republic of Strings (bluegrass/jazz)
Acoustic Hot Tuna (acoustic blues)
Mark O'Connor (fiddle)
Old Crow Medecine Show (string band)
Red Stick Ramblers (cajun/western wing/jazz)
Richard Shindell (american folk singer)
Kelly Joe Phelps (american folk singer)
Tim O'Brien (american folk singer)

[elizarose]

I have so many songs but I'll try to have a condensed form here.

Deep Blue Sea-The New Christy Minstrels
Shendoah
Suo Gan (Welsh lullably)
The Sun is Burning- Simon & Garfunkel (Scottish Song)
Will Ye Go Lasse, Go
Ye Banks and Braes
White Orange and Green
Danny Boy
Mother Nature's Son
A Nation Once Again
Spancil Hill (love love love this song) ;D
The Lambs on The Greenhills
Down to the River to Pray
The Lady of Shallot
The Lakes of Ponchartrain
Ubi Caritas
The Lord of the Dance (which come to think of it might be a good song for the Cottars to do. I think that was a recent thread too).
The Fields of Athenry
Red is the Rose
Tramps and Hawkers
A Man's a Man for all that
Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite-Prokofiev
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (if you ever saw the Movie Somewhere in Time, you can hear this piece there, gorgeous)

I think that will do for now.

[Ginny]

ElizaRose,
I was cruising through the comments on The Cottars' myspace, and I noticed that you left a comment for them not too long ago. So anyway, I checked out your profile, and sent you a friend request. Anyhoo, the point of this message-I got the impression from your myspace that you're obsessed with The Beatles..but you didn't mention any Beatles songs This isn't just for favourite Celtic songs, it can be for any songs. I'm a fan of The Beatles too (I mean, come on, who isn't ) and I wondered what some of your favourite songs from them are?

Cheers,
Ginny

[mott]

afanoffiona said:

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Symphony No.2-Mahler
Symphony No.8-Mahler
afanoffiona

But afan...

What about Mahler's First symphony? I do like the Resurrection and Symphony of 1000, but the Titan is my favorite. I always try to see it performed at Ravinia in Chicagoland, it's my favorite. Than again, I like anything by Mahler.

I'll have to list my favorite classical stuff too, and other things.

[afanoffiona]

Hey Mott,

I listened to the Titan, and I liked it. However, Mahler 2 and 8 are my favorites.

God Bless,
afanoffiona

[mott]

I like 2 & 8 too I have the recordings somewhere of Solti conducting the CSO of them. Also 4 and 7 I think. But 1 and 9 are my favs. 1 kicks my butt.

A couple of years ago I went to Ravinia and saw Symphony of 1000, and there were around 1000 people performing it. They had subtitles superimposed. Listening to a children's choir singing German was such a treat.

[afanoffiona]

Hey Mott!

I have the music to all Mahler symphonies except for no.10. No. 5 is an attractive one to me. However, I thought I was hearing the wedding march when it first started, lol.

Ya, I love German boy's choirs and German music in general. German culture is quite a bit different than Scottish culture, though. When you go to a Cottars concert you can get up and dance, clap your hands, and do all kinds of fun stuff... even sing along sometimes. I go to a Lutheran school, and everyone is extremely serious at concerts. The guys wear either tuxedos or suits, and all the girls are in dresses. They bow before leaving the stage, and you can hear a pin drop while everyone is playing. Both kinds of music are very good, though.

God Bless,
afanoffiona

[Ginny]

Ok, I have some more

Lord of the Dance-Michael Flatley and Riverdance
Here Comes My Baby-GBS
My Little Lady-Seven Nations
Bud the Spud-Stompin Tom
Song of the Irish Moss-Stompin Tom
Man Moon Newfie-Stompin Tom
Looking out my Backdoor-CCR
This is the Voice-Oysterband
By Northern Light-Oysterband (Barra MacNeils' version is good too)
Home for a Rest-Spirit of the West
Bad Day-Daniel Powter
I Can Only Imagine-MercyMe
Breakfast at Tiffany's-Deep Blue Something
War of 1812-The Arrogant Worms
Big Yellow Taxi-Counting Crows
Only Time-Enya
Accidentely in Love-Counting Crows
Followed her around-Jimmy Rankin
Wendy-Russell Crowe
Standing Still-Jewel
The Wren-Shannygannock
Devil in the Kitchen-Ashley MacIsaac
Molly Malone-The Irish Rovers
American Pie-Don MacLean
Summer of '69-Bryan Adams
My Heart Will Go Down-Celine Dion
Dowtown-Petula Clark
Orange & The Green-Irish Rovers
Lord of the Dance-Ennis Sisters

Songs I like by The Rankins:
Mairi's Wedding
Orangedale Whistle
As I Roved Out
Roving Gypsy Boy
I'll Tell Me Ma
Tramp Miner
Gaelic Medley
Gillis Mountain
North Country

Still more to come....

Cheers,
Ginny

[elizarose]

ginny said:

ElizaRose,
I was cruising through the comments on The Cottars' myspace, and I noticed that you left a comment for them not too long ago. So anyway, I checked out your profile, and sent you a friend request. Anyhoo, the point of this message-I got the impression from your myspace that you're obsessed with The Beatles..but you didn't mention any Beatles songs This isn't just for favourite Celtic songs, it can be for any songs. I'm a fan of The Beatles too (I mean, come on, who isn't ) and I wondered what some of your favourite songs from them are?

Cheers,
Ginny

I have sooo many here goes

A Taste of Honey
Blackbird
Mother Nature's Son
Dr. Robert
Tell Me What You See
Eleanor Rigby
Here Comes The Sun
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
I Need You
I'll Follow the Sun
I've Just Seen a Face
Let It Be
Nowhere Man
PS I Love You
Rain
That means alot
The Fool on the Hill
The Long and Winding Road
Yesterday

bit crazy about them.