Sword Chant

The new ALTAN album entitled  The Widening Gyre , that Sword Chant has been proud to support the crowdfunding of the band's project  with free promotion on the forum and website, and reminded more than once through the various social networks pages, can be ordered on  Compass records ,

The next ALTAN album is entitled "The Widening Gyre". We borrowed the title from one of W.B.Yeats poems ; A Second Coming ; the band said.  Yeats was the first Irish man to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .  ALTAN had opened a fund campaign for the album which was a success.  Today, ALTAN revealed the artwork for "The Widening Gyre" to be released on February 20th, UK Feb. 23rd and USA 24th

Because I shared already several times on facebook, twitter, forum and here... You may know ALTAN are in campaign for their next record. You know who's ALTAN am sure and what I notice is they are at 96% of their goal for a while. 13 days left. Give them the opportunity to end great this year. Thanks for them. : ) "Into Battle" will be the next HEATHEN FORAY album planned for May 2015. They recently started a battle, the one to fund their next record but here again, I think that I teach you nothing.  Take this bulletin as one reminder. This is ALTAN: http://swordchant.go-board.com/t1373-celtic-folk-altan and HEATHEN FORAY: http://swordchant.go-board.com/t1577-heathen-foray SUPPORT THEM! Thank you. : )

LOCATION :  Donegal, Ireland Status :  Active Music :  Celtic Folk MEMBERS : Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh : fiddle, vocals Ciaran Tourish : fiddle, vocals Mark Kelly : guitar, bouzouki, vocals Ciaran Curran : bouzouki, mandolin Dermot Byrne : accordion Daithi Sproule : guitar, vocals HISTORY : Frankie Kennedy & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh founded ALTAN in 1985. The name "Altan" comes from Loch Altan in north-western Donegal, where is located the band. Frankie passed away in 1994 due to cancer disease. RECORDINGS : Altan, album 1986 Horse with a heart, album 1989 The red crow, album 1990 Harvest storm, album 1992 Island Angel, album 1993 The first ten years, compilation 1995 Blackwater, album 1996 Runaway Sunday, album 1997 Another sky, album 2000 The Blue Idol, album 2002 Local Ground, album 2005 25th Anniversary Celebration with the RTE Concert Orchestra, live album 2010 The Poison Glen, album 2012 The Widening Gyre, album 2015 [ details ] Th...