I'm Irish on my Dad's side - great grandfather from Kilkenny, great grandmother from County Mayo. And I've been there twice, among the most beautiful places on earth - with lovely people.

Blend in together.

I think close to half the tunes on the Holland-America Line albums had some of that

It brings the best of American Folk/Country/Bluegrass together with the best of Irish Folk.

For example,

No, I've never heard of them, though I obviously recognize a LOT of the musicians participating. I occasionally used to hang with Aly Bain when he came through Boston in the late 1970s, since I played a German folk festival with his former Boys of the Lough member, Mike Whelans. Mike told me to look up Aly and the Boys when they came to Boston, and I did (he's gotten older, but who hasn't?).

Thanks for those, I will listen to them in detail when I get the chance. The few songs I already listened to were wonderful. The Holland-America Line was an accidental project, born of a chance folk festival parking lot encounter in Germany in 1979. The fiddle player later developed a rare illness that amplified every sound he heard, so that a pin dropping sounded like a bomb going off. That ran the Holland-America Line project aground, so to speak. The best-made plans of mice and men......

Imagine a Donahue born on Saint Patricks Day!

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Our first trip to Ireland, we spent a day in Dublin, walking up O'Connell Street to see the bullet holes in the GPO and the statue of Cuchullain...among other sights, of course.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig!