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For Love and Laughter | 
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| Artist: Solas
Label: Compass Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 5413
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 4490
UPC: 766397449029
EAN: 0766397449029
ASIN: B001BWQABY
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Eoin Bear's Reel/Tune for Sharon/The Rossa Reel - Solas, McAuley | | • | Seven Curses - Solas, Traditional | | • | Tilly's Jig/The Happy Traveler - Solas, Egan | | • | Mollai Na Gcuachi Ni Chuilleanain - Solas, Traditional | | • | Merry Go Round - Solas, Duvekot | | • | Sunday's Waltz/Solo Double Oh - Solas, Egan | | • | Vital Mental Medicine/The Pullet - Solas, Egan | | • | Sailor Song - Solas, Jones, Rickie Lee | | • | There Is a Time - Solas, Dillard | | • | John Riordan's Heels/Hoban's White House/The Lisnagun Jig - Solas, Horan | | • | The Gallant Hussar - Solas, Traditional | | • | My Dream of You - Solas, Horan, Winifred |
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Product Description
For over a decade, Solas has been hailed as the leading Irish-American supergroup. Through line-up changes and experiments with style and technology, the band has pushed the boundaries of but never strayed too far from their Irish roots.
Now, as Mairead Phelan, an exciting young singer from Kilkenny, steps up to lend her exquisite vocals to the existing line up of Seamus Egan (flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, whistle, guitar, and bodhran), Winifred Horan (fiddle), Mick McAuley (accordion and concertina) and Eamon McElholm (guitar and keyboards), the band heads into their second decade of playing tight, fiery Irish music with a new tour and a new CD, For Love and Laughter .
The new material breaks fresh ground in duets with Canada s folk phenoms The Duhks and an inspired rendition of Rickie Lee Jones s Sailor Song, while it offers the imaginative reinterpretations of traditional material that Solas has been playing to the delight of their fans worldwide.
Album Description
Solas returns with their new CD Love & Laughter. New vocalist Mairead Phelan from Kilkenny brings her vocals to such songs as Rickie Lee Jones' 'Sailor Song' also duets with Canadian Folk phenoms The Dukhs. Solas will be on tour through the months of September and October 2008 in the US.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Solas For Love and Laughter October 24, 2008
Another excellent CD from Solas! The new vocalist has a lovely voice, breather than Deirdre. I enjoyed all the selections.
Solas September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a BIG Solas fan. Great musicians, wonderful people.
I've followed them, now, through 3 changes in lead singers. Each time it took awhile to get used to the new "voice" in the mix.The album itself is great. It's not just another "same old, same old" next album that you find with so many other groups. Very enjoyable.
 Contemporary Celtic folk, in the "hardly strictly trad" mode September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Contemporary Irish-American folk at its best, from one of the finest bands in the field... Although former members Karan Casey, John Doyle and John Williams will be missed, newcomer Mairead Phelan makes a fine lead vocalist, while the album is anchored by the top-flight musicianship of guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan, fiddler Winifred Horan (the band's two remaining founding members) and dazzling accordionist Mick McAuley. The group is undeniably a powerhouse, although reactions of fans towards the modern folk style that predominates on this disc will vary, depending on the listener's devotion to (or rejection of) strictly traditional material. Fans with more modern tastes, who are looking for the genre to expand its horizons, should be quite happy with this one! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Guide To World Music)
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