Clannad - Gaoth Barra na dTonn

Clannad are a Grammy Award-winning Irish musical group, from Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk and folk rock, Irish, and New Age. They are known for performing in various languages, including English, Latin, Gàidhlig, Mohican and most of all in their native tongue, Irish.

Clannad are Moya Brennan (born Máire Ní Bhraonáin), Ciarán Brennan (born Ciarán Ó Braonáin), Pól Brennan (born Pól Ó Braonáin), Noel Duggan (born Noel Ó Dúgáin) and Pádraig Duggan (born Pádraig Ó Dúgáin).

Clannad first made their mark in the folk and traditional scene in the 1970s in Ireland and Europe, they subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional celtic music and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s with albums such as Macalla and Anam. During their successful career they toured the world extensively and gained fans in every major territory. Lead singer Moya Brennan and her sister Enya have also enjoyed huge success as solo artists. The band won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best New Age Album, and their record sales exceed the 15 million mark. They are also regarded as the band which, for the first time, put Irish traditional music and the Irish language on the world stage and paved the way for many other Irish artists.

After ten years disbanded, the five original members of Clannad reunited on stage at the Celtic Connections Festival in February 2007 in Glasgow. They expressed their wishes to release a new studio album, but no official announcements have been made as yet. Moya, Ciarán, Noel and Pádraig embarked on their first UK tour in over 10 years in the Spring of 2008, starting in Gateshead.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• music
• celtic
• gaeilge
• gaelic
• song
• old
• new
• age
• moya
• brennan
• enya
• ireland
• donegal
• world
• folk

[bookkeeper57]

Maire's voice is like a bell, with no musical accompaniment. Better vocalist than sister Enya; although I admire Enya too.

[the26thhour]

didn't understand a single word & loved every moment

[motherearthsoup]

Translation by Domhnall Mac Dairmada Continued: Gaoth Barra of the Waves In the musical waters of the river lurks the salmon And nearby the lark makes her nest Come the birds of the flock, the starling and the blackbird To your refuge unstinting Gaoth Barra of the Waves I pray to St. Patrick and St. Conal I ask but one boon at the end of my life That my soul should reside among the brown leaves That grow thick on your shores, Gaoth Barra of the Waves

[motherearthsoup]

Translation by Domhnall Mac Dairmada Gaoth Barra of the Waves The harvest moon is rising into the sky And autumn's yellow sun is setting over the weir The young bees hum amid the old brown leaves In Gaoth Barra of the Woods, Gaoth Barra of the Waves The young winter cattle come slowly down to the fold And the sheep frolic at the approach of the night The wandering stream laughs and shouts In Gaoth Barra of the Woods, Gaoth Barra of the Waves

[kristinaperez]

She is the most beautiful voice I've ever heard.

Sounds like an soft wind for me, and in my opinion, Enya is really boring!!

[kokoshnetuna]

@acerb45666555 Hardly! The melody is all different, and the softened approximates and over-long vowels that give Danish its particular sound are not present in Irish at all. The sound of Irish (Moya’s dialect, at least) is made up by lots of palatalisations and ‘soft’ vowels. If anything, Donegal Irish flows like some northern dialects of Norwegian.

[pstholm]

@acerb45666555

lol! Not even the Danish understand their own language - it sounds like the porridge got stuck in their throats. Gaelic on the other hand is indeed a beautiful language.

[acerb45666555]

Gaelic flows like Danish!

[TheSandsie13]

my best mate's gran used to sing this when she wasn't wondering why the holy mother had stuck her with us.

[MsJohnjohn63]

yr hyn y mae ganddi lais, Mae `n wir yn syfrdanol mor glir a beautifull

[muisire]

As good as anything by Mozart...