Hambly,Gráinne-Between the Showers

All-Ireland Harp Champion Gráinne Hambly was the Principal Harper of the Belfast Harp Orchestra. “Her harp music allows us to feel the fascination that Irish music has had on us for hundreds of years: a lively rhythm with her left hand, with perfectly timed embellishments, trills, and stops -- a mixture of heavy and light, green and gold, in short, a musical description of the island.” Grainne is truly a virtuoso playing jigs, reels, waltzes, hornpipes, and slow airs.

You can find the written music for many of Grainne's arrangements in her book Traditional Irish Music Arranged for Harp.

Tracks:


The Crib of Perches / Garrett Barry's Reel
Flying to the Fleadh (Patrick Davey)
Eleanor Plunkett (Turlough O'Carolan)
The Tailor's Twist / Cooley's Hornpipe (Paddy O'Brien)
Amhran na Leabhar
O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick - Whelan's Jig
Inis Oirr (Thomas Walsh)
The Gold Ring
Soft Mild Morning / Her Golden Hair Hanging Down Her Back (Junion Crehan)
The Tosa Waltz (Michael Cassidy)
Splendid Isolation (Brendan McGlinchey)
Tonra's Jig (Brendan Tonra) / Gan Ainm / The Woods of Old Limerick
The Blackbird, Madge Malone / McIntyre's Fancy (John Brady)
John Roche's Favourite / Kitty Sheain's
Counsellor MacDonough's Lamentation or Turlough og MacDonough
The Mist Covered Mountain (Junion Crehan)
Kilfenora
Between the Showers (Peter Ratzenbeck)
The Glass of Beer / The Bucks of Oranmore