''Live 2004'' is an album recorded live by the Irish folk band

Planxty Planxty were an Irish folk music band formed in January 1972, consisting initially of Christy Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, gu ...

Recording

This live album was recorded during Planxty's third reunion (dubbed "The Third Coming"), which unfolded in late 2003 and into early 2004. Initial rehearsals at the Royal Spa Hotel in Lisdoonvarna,

County Clare County Clare () is a Counties of Ireland, county in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster in the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern part of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council ...

were followed by a gig there on Saturday, 11 October 2003 in front of 200 people. Planxty then played a series of concerts at the Glór Theatre in

Ennis Ennis ( , meaning 'island' or 'river meadow') is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland. The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary. Ennis is the largest town in Cou ...

(on 23 & 24 January 2004) and at Vicar Street in Dublin (on 30 & 31 January and on 4 & 5, 11 & 12 February 2004), which were recorded and from which selected material was released on the present CD and its associated DVD. Another round of concerts took place in late 2004 and early 2005 in Galway, Belfast, Dublin and London.

Track listing

#"The Starting Gate" – 4:38 #" The Good Ship Kangaroo" – 4:31 #"The Clare Jig" – 3:14 #"

Arthur McBride "Arthur McBride" (also called "The Recruiting Sergeant" or "Arthur McBride and the Sergeant") is a folk song (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud 2355) probably of Irish origin, also found in England, Scotland, Australia, and North America. Describing a v ...

" – 3:59 #"Little Musgrave" – 9:20 #"The Vicar St. Reels (2004)" – 4:21 #" The Blacksmith" (trad.)/"Black Smithereens" ( A. Irvine) – 5:03 #"The Dark Slender Boy" – 4:37 #"As Christy Roved Out" – 4:01 #"As Andy Roved Out" – 5:17 #"The Kildareman's Fancy" – 4:15 #" Raggle Taggle Gypsy"/" Tabhair Dom Do Lámh" – 5:46 #"The West Coast of Clare" ( A. Irvine) – 6:05 #"O'Dwyer of The Glen" – 2:02

Personnel

Christy Moore Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the bands Planxty and Moving Hearts and has had significant success as a solo artist. His first albu ...

- vocals, guitar,

bodhrán The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A Goatskin (material), goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or ot ...

, keyboard * Andy Irvine - vocals,

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

mandola The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola ...

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...

Dónal Lunny Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD ...

- bouzouki, guitars, bodhrán, vocals *

Liam O'Flynn Liam O'Flynn, Óg Flynn (, 15 September 1945 – 14 March 2018) was an Irish people, Irish Uilleann pipes, uilleann piper and Folk music of Ireland, Irish traditional musician. In addition to a solo career and as a member of Planxty, O'Flynn re ...

uilleann pipes The uilleann pipes ( or , ), also known as Union pipes and sometimes called Irish pipes, are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms (literally, "pipes of the ...

, tin whistles

References

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