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Green Fire Island

From New Zealand

Green Fire Islands presents an extraordinary musical dialogue between two island nations, oceans apart but sharing a deep, spirited musicality. Inspired by a tour to New Zealand by Dónal Lunny, one of the greatest revivalists of traditional Irish music, this unique collaboration celebrates time-honoured Celtic and Maori music. Something of a legend in Ireland, Lunny has assembled a stellar ensemble of 14 of the leading lights of both contemporary and traditional musical circles from Ireland and Aotearoa. Bouzouki, uilleann pipes, the fiddle and sean nos singing meet and meld with waiata, taonga puoro and kapa haka.Green Fire Islands features, among others, the distinctive fiddler Nollaig Casey, the passionate voice of Iarla Oí Lionaird, the mesmerising singing of Whirimako Black as well as Richard Nunns' masterly playing of traditional Maori instruments.