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This is the beginnings of what will be a list of places to find faery music. This includes old
ballads about faeries as well as contemporary music inspired by faeries. As I come across
albums with faery songs I will add them. I would also like to have a list of published sheet
music at some point. Eventually, I intend this page to contain a few sound
files you can download and listen to.
- The King of the Fairies (set dance)
- One version was recorded by Frank O'Higgins, and can
be found on Milestone at the Garden, a collection of fiddle tunes
from Rounder Records. Ashley MacIsaac also recorded this song on Devil in the Kitchen, an EP from A & M.
- The Faeries' Reel (Manx reel)
- Joemy Wilson does a nice hammered dulcimer version on
Celtic Dreams, from Dargason Music.
- Faeries' Lamentation" (Irish)
- Again, there is a version by Joemy Wilson (see above).
The Cheiftains have also done one.
- The Stolen Child
- Both Loreena McKennit (on Elemental), and The
Waterboys (on Fisherman's Blues from Ensign Records) have set this
Yeats poem to music.
- The
Land of Faerie.
- "A Musical Faerie Tale".
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