The Mary Wallopers

Lots Of Little Soldiers

another track from my 2012 solo album
Donal Lunny: bouzouki & bodhran
Padraig Rynne: concertina
Paul McSherry: guitar
Sylvain Barou: flute

HUMOURS OF CARRIGAHOLT/THE WINDY CITY/THE COCUS REEL

What do you get when you mix together three of the Isle of Man's most well respected trad musicians with one of Scotland's fresh up and coming talents?

Mec Lir - bringing foot stomping beats to some of your favourite trad tunes.

Ingredients:

A freshly picked Tomas Callister (Barrule) on fiddle,
The zest of Adam Rhodes (Mabon, Barrule, King Chiaullee) on bouzouki,
A dash of David Kilgallon (Chronicles, King Chiaullee) on keys,
A generous squeeze of Greg Barry (The Elephant Sessions) on percussion.

Blend these tasty ingredients together to create a magical cocktail of traditional Celtic music.

Mec Lir will make you move, lhiem mygeayrt!

The Grackle

Check out the new video from Will Varley.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMxwqZVL9L4

Will Varley - King For a King

The Kings Of Connaught  - The Rocky Road To Dublin

The Ale is Dear (trad.)/The Steampacket (trad.)/ Marion MacDonald (Lea Macleod) 

Ale is Dear

The Turning Tide

The Crows of Killimer / Box Reel #2 / Boys of Malin / The Opera House

Gospel Oak

He Moved Through the Fair

Upside Down

Farewell to Whalley Range

Can I Gymru (Y Casgliad Cyflawn: 1969-2005) / Song For Wales (1969-2005)

Gwlad Y Rasta Gwyn

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (Live in Seattle - 1989)

Sylvain Barou, from Brittany is considered as one of the best flute players. Having played mainly Irish and Breton traditional music, Sylvain has been part of some of the most exciting projects of the genre and played with the foremost bands and musicians such as Donal Lunny, Padraig Rynne, Guidewires, Altan, Guichen, Alain Genty, Denez Prigent, Jacques Pellen-Celtic Procession, Erik Marchand, Smadj, Gildas & JB Boclé, Keyvan Chemirani, Trilok Gurtu, Prabhu Edouard, Vincent Ségal, Sandip Chatterjee, Karim Ziad, Olli & The Bollywood Orchestra, Dan Ar Braz, Yann-Fanch Kemener, Gilles Le Bigot, Soig Siberil, Yvan Cassar, Liz Carroll, John Doyle, Andy Irvine, Mairtin O'Connor, Paddy Glackin, Seamie O'Dowd, Laoise Kelly, Fred Morrisson... he has been seen playing at some of the major festivals and venues such as Glasgow Celtic Connections, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Festival de Cornouaille, Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Les Tombées de la Nuit, Transmusicales, Paléo Festival, Ennis Trad Festival, FMM Sines, Théatre de La Ville, Jazz à Vienne, Bercy, Stade de France, Musiques Nomades in Nouakchott, Tanger Festival, Dranouter Folk Fest, etc...

Today, Sylvain travels the world with his own lineup and a new trio with irish legendary musician Donal Lunny and Padraig Rynne, Sylvain is also participating to several projects with breton jazz guitarist Jacques Pellen, including a new exciting collaboration with jazz drummer extraordinaire Trilok Gurtu and a new quartet called Offshore. He also collaborates with musicians from other musical realms such as iranian percussion wizard Keyvan Chemirani,  indian musicians Prabhu Edouard (tabla) Sandip Chatterjee (santoor) and Sukdhev Misra (violin) and Cretan genius Stelios Petrakis (lyra, saz, laouto)
He is still very active in the breton "fest-noz" scene (the famous dance nights of Brittany!) and also experiments regularly with other musical styles that he has been studying (indian classical music, sufi music from Turkey, persian music, greek folk...) and it is also not rare to hear him creating incredible soundscapes in jazz/ambient/experimental projects these days.
Sylvain also plays other instruments such as indian bansuri, balaban (similar to duduk) and is also a very accomplished uilleann-pipes player and also biniou kozh (traditional bagpipe of Brittany) 

HUMOURS OF CARRIGAHOLT/THE WINDY CITY/THE COCUS REEL

Sylvain BAROU

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