Celtic Institute of North America
The Irishy Girl
Artist: Kate Chadbourne
Format: CD
Price: $15
“It would be lovely to be on a mountainside
and to have for company an Irishy Girl…”
So begins the song which gives its title to The Irishy Girl, a gathering of Kate’s favorite Irish traditional songs. Their cast of characters includes passionate shepherds and men off to war, several courting couples and a handful of philosophers, a nun and at least two mermaids. About half of them speak in Irish, and half in English. And what they tell us covers the gamut: love, friendship, loneliness, wit, disappointment, devotion, and the desire to celebrate being alive!