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May We Never Have To Say Goodbye Taramusicdotcom 18,254 views May We Never Have To Say Goodbye composed by Shaun Davey for the opening Ceremony of the 2003 Special Olympics. - Available for download from iTunes, Amazon, etc. - This is...
The Contradiction - Zoe Conway Taramusicdotcom 2,670 views Taken from the Zoë Conway Live DVD. Zoë Conway who is widely recognized as one of Irelands most gifted young fiddle players has recently released her first DVD Zoë Conway L...
The Golden Stud - Stockton's Wing Taramusicdotcom 4,072 views The Golden Stud - Stockton's Wing - 1982 The music of Stockton's Wing has evolved into an exciting blend of traditional and contemporary Irish music and song, performed wi...
Walk Away - Stockton's Wing Taramusicdotcom 5,482 views Stockton's wing live at Dublin's Stadium in 1984. The music of Stockton's Wing has evolved into an exciting blend of traditional and contemporary Irish music and song, per...
Ciúmhais Charraig Aonair - Béal Tuinne Taramusicdotcom 14,651 views BÉAL TUINNE are Seamus Begley, button accordion and vocals; Rita Connolly, vocals and guitar; Lawrence Courtney, vocals and banjo; Eilis Kennedy, vocals and whistle; Jim Mu...
An Droichead - The Bridge Liam O'Flynn Taramusicdotcom 17,218 views Liam O'Flynn & The Pipers Call Band with guests Mark Knopfler and Sean Keane from Liam's album The Piper's Call. - Available for download from iTunes, Amazon, etc. -
Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane - Chetvorno Horo Taramusicdotcom 26,561 views The EastWind album - Available for download from iTunes, Amazon, etc. - by Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane is a complex interaction of Celtic Musicians and instruments with Wor...
Stockton's Wing Beautiful Affair Taramusicdotcom 16,527 views Stockton's wing live at self aid concert at Dublin's RDS arena in 1986. The music of Stockton's Wing has evolved into an exciting blend of traditional and contemporary Iri...
Mystic Seacliffs Davy Spillane Band Taramusicdotcom 47,509 views Taken from the Davy Spillane album 'Out of the Air' with Davy on Uilleann pipes and Anthony Drennan on guitar Following the success of Davy's first solo album 'Atlantic Br...
Rita Connolly - Amiens Taramusicdotcom 23,162 views Performed by Rita Connolly on her first Solo album 'Rita Connolly' - Available for download from iTunes, Amazon, etc. - an album which served to underscore her ability to c...

About Tara Music Company

Tara Music has been producing the highest quality recordings of traditional Irish music for over 25 years. The Tara Music website, taramusic.com, contains, news, background information, photos, video and audio clips of Irish artists & Celtic artists such as, Planxty, Clannad, Christy Moore, Shaun Davey, Rita Connolly, Davy Spillane, Liam O'Flynn, Bill Whelan, Moving Hearts, Stockton's Wing, The Voice Squad, and many more.

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Tara Music (formerly known as Tara Records) have been regarded for many years as one of the leading traditional Irish music recording companies. The label was set up by Jack Fitzgerald and John Cook back in the early 70's. There first release was an album called Prosperous by a young Irish Singer 'Christy Moore', at that stage a lowly cult figure.

There was quite a gap between that album coming out and anything further being released. Then in the early eighties there were two albums from Planxty 'After The Break' and 'The Woman I Loved So Well', two solo albums from Christy Moore 'The Iron Behind the Velvet' and 'Live In Dublin' as well as two albums from Clannad 'Crann Ull' and 'Fuaim'.

Theses were followed by the first of numerous albums from a promising new act called Stockton's Wing.

All four acts above are now legendary names in Irish music.

In the late seventies, Tara recorded Shaun Davey's 'The Brendan Voyage' a ground-breaking album which featured Liam O'Flynn on uilleann pipes and a full orchestra. The Brendan Voyage launched Shaun Davey as a contemporary orchestral composer of international standard and led to further commissions for work in a similar vein, several of which - 'The Pilgrim', 'Granuaile' and 'The Relief of Derry Symphony', have been released on Tara.

Most of Shaun's works feature the truly exceptional vocalist Rita Connolly and the master of Irish piping Liam O'Flynn - both of whom have also recorded numerous solo albums for the Tara label under Shaun's supervision as producer.

Although the Riverdance show and its music appeared to be an overnight success, elements of the music had been developing over many years prior to the Riverdance event. One of the strongest of these musical elements was introduced by Andy Irvine who, returned to Ireland from The Balkans and introduced Eastern European music and time signatures to the 'Planxty' who then proceeded to record a number of these instrumental tracks. Andy together with Davy Spillane recorded the 'EastWind' album, which was produced by Bill Whelan, possibly the first seeds of what became Riverdance.

Tara also released Bill Whelan's first major orchestral work 'The Seville Suite'(and his most recent release The Connemara Suite). While albums such as Davy Spillane's 'Out of the Air' and 'Pipedreams' as well as 'The Storm' by Moving Hearts feature some of the musical elements and instruments that are easily recognisable in their influence on the Riverdance music.

In recent years most of Tara's releases have been the artists recordings with Tara acting as distributor and coordinating press and publicity on artists such as, The Voice Squad, Zoe Conway, Alan Kelly, Emma Kate Tobia, Mairtin O'Connor, Frankie Gavin and Michelle Lally.

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