Sliabh Geal gCua na F​é​ile (The Bright Mountain of the Cuckoos)

from The Morning Star by Marla Fibish & Jimmy Crowley

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Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile is a Déise song (West Waterford) that Jimmy first heard from one of his favourite singers, the late and great Niochlás Tóibín from the Ring Gaeltacht near Helvic Head, Co. Waterford. It was a privilege and quite unforgettable to have been fortunate enough to have heard this man sing. The sharp, bitter tang of immigration and home thoughts from abroad combined with the lush, poignant melody evokes the very hills, the seas between and the sadness and the beauty. It was written by the great Déise poet Pádraig Ó Miléadha (1877 – 1947) as he pined in exile, laboring in the Mond Nickel Works in Clydach, in the Swansea Valley, in Wales.

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from The Morning Star, released May 1, 2011
Jimmy - bouzouki

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Marla Fibish San Francisco, California

A San Francisco native, Marla is one of the prominent voices of the mandolin in Irish music. She brings a deep and distinctive sensibility to the tradition on one of its lesser-heard instruments. Marla also plays mandola, tenor guitar, sings, writes tunes, and sets poetry to music, often in collaboration with her husband, Bruce Victor. Together they are Noctambule, and have released 4 albums. ... more

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