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''Runaway Sunday'' is the sixth studio album by Altan, released in July 1997 on the
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Track listing

All titles arranged by Altan. # "Súil Ghorm" – 2:45 # "John Doherty's Reels" – 2:35 # "Caidé Sin Don Té Sin?" – 3:13 # "Germans" – 3:13 (barn dances) # "Clan Ranald/J.B.'s Reel/Paddy Mac's Reel/Kitty Sheáin's" – 4:17 # "I Wish My Love Was a Red Red Rose" – 3:50 # "Mazurka" – 2:29 # "Australian Waters" – 3:27 # "A Moment in Time" – 3:17 # "Ciarán's Capers" – 3:29 # "Cití Ní Eadhra" – 3:06 # "Flood in the Holm/Scots Mary/The Dancer's Denial" – 3:52 # " Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair" – 3:27 # "Time Has Passed" – 3:32 All titles are traditional, with the following exceptions: *"Súil Ghorm" – composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh *"Time has passed" – composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh *"A Moment in Time" – composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Mark Kelly *"The Dancer's Denial" – composed by Mark Kelly *"Paddy Mac's Reel" – composed by Ciaran Tourish *" Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair" – lyrics by Proinsias Ó Maonaigh


Live recordings

A live recording of "John Doherty's Reels" performed by Altan in early August 2002 at the Cambridge Folk Festival is available on the ''Cool as Folk'' 2-CD collective album. Released in 2007, this compilation includes a total of 36 live recordings from the Cambridge Folk Festival between 1999 and 2006.mainlynorfolk.info > Cool As Folk
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Personnel


Altan

* Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...
,
vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...
*Ciaran Tourish – Fiddle,
whistle A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It is a type of Fipple, fipple flute, and may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a s ...
, backing vocals *Dermot Byrne –
Accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
, melodeon *Ciarán Curran –
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 ...
, bouzarre,
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 ...
, backing vocals *Mark Kelly –
Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
, bouzouki, backing vocals * Dáithí Sproule – Guitar, backing vocals


Guest musicians

* Stephen Cooney
Double Bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...
,
didgeridoo The didgeridoo (;()), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous Drone (music), drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgerido ...
*Pat Crowley –
Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...
*
Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prol ...
Dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...
*Jimmy Higgins –
Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...
*
Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, fiddler and music producer. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of eight and recording for the first time at ...
– Backing vocals * Dónal LunnyKeyboards,
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 ...
*Neil Martin –
Cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...
, keyboards * Matt Molloy
Flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...


Production

*Altan – producers *Alastair McMillan – producer, engineer *Conan Doyle – assistant engineer *Brian Masterson – mixer *
Dave McKean David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an England, English artist. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture. McKean has illustrated works by authors such as S. F. Said, S.F. Said, ...
– photography, design


References

{{Authority control Altan (band) albums 1997 albums Albums with cover art by Dave McKean