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Carolan's Dream
Irish tune, played on celtic harp
(Source: YouTube):
"After being blinded by smallpox at the age of eighteen,
Carolan (1670–1738) was apprenticed by Mrs. MacDermott Roe to a good harper.
"At the age of twenty-one, being given a horse and a guide, he set out to travel Ireland
and compose songs for patrons.
"For almost fifty years, Carolan journeyed from one end of Ireland to the other, composing
and performing his tunes. (Wikipedia)
"O'Carolan was an irish harpist who wrote pieces for the people he met and stayed with
- playing music in exchange for hospitality.
"Tradition has it that the harp was played last thing at night, before people went to bed".
"Only the melodies survive, so I've done this arrangement myself and I'm playing it here
on a Pilgrim gut-strung harp" (Harmer)
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