Artist: O'hAnleigh
Title: Winds of Change
Label: Green Cabin Music
Genre: Celtic / Folk
Crank up the Victrola -- railroads, factories, coalyards and emigration mean change is in the air and everything old is new again in this collection of original and turn-of-the-century music best listened to by gaslamp.
MIDDLEBURY. In time for the Saint Patrick's Day season, Middlebury Vermont's band óhAnleigh has released its "Winds of Change" full-length CD. The band has just returned from a launch tour of the English midlands.
The band has been performing since 2002, when frontman Tom Hanley, a second-generation Irishman and veteran of bar rock bands since the early 1970's, enlisted his then-12 year old daughter Becca to join him playing for a nonprofit organization dinner. In early 2003, fiddler Cindy Hill joined the fatherdaughter team. The trio has more recently been joined by Essex multi-instrumentalist Matt Bean, and the CD also features percussion by Reagh Greenleaf, Jr. of Rambletree.
The Winds of Change album presents a fresh take on songs from the era of gaslight and immigration -- 1880s through 1920s. Including familiar sing-alongs like My Beautiful Irish Maid and Peg O' My Heart, óhAnleigh also includes a remake of the 1950's hit The Old Lamplighter.
Another original song on the Winds of Change disc, William Lee's Amazing Knitting Machine, tells the tongue-in-cheek true story of the 1589 invention of the frame knitting machine and features samples of a 1950s frame knitting machine wielded by Addison textile artist Gayle McClay Torrey. This song led to the band holding a special event at the Ruddington, England Framework Knitters Museum, which houses some of the earliest specimens of frame knitting machines. Discs and digital downloads are available through the band's website
www.ohanleigh.com and at
cdbaby.com.
Title: Winds of Change
Label: Green Cabin Music
Genre: Celtic / Folk
Crank up the Victrola -- railroads, factories, coalyards and emigration mean change is in the air and everything old is new again in this collection of original and turn-of-the-century music best listened to by gaslamp.
MIDDLEBURY. In time for the Saint Patrick's Day season, Middlebury Vermont's band óhAnleigh has released its "Winds of Change" full-length CD. The band has just returned from a launch tour of the English midlands.
The band has been performing since 2002, when frontman Tom Hanley, a second-generation Irishman and veteran of bar rock bands since the early 1970's, enlisted his then-12 year old daughter Becca to join him playing for a nonprofit organization dinner. In early 2003, fiddler Cindy Hill joined the fatherdaughter team. The trio has more recently been joined by Essex multi-instrumentalist Matt Bean, and the CD also features percussion by Reagh Greenleaf, Jr. of Rambletree.
The Winds of Change album presents a fresh take on songs from the era of gaslight and immigration -- 1880s through 1920s. Including familiar sing-alongs like My Beautiful Irish Maid and Peg O' My Heart, óhAnleigh also includes a remake of the 1950's hit The Old Lamplighter.
Another original song on the Winds of Change disc, William Lee's Amazing Knitting Machine, tells the tongue-in-cheek true story of the 1589 invention of the frame knitting machine and features samples of a 1950s frame knitting machine wielded by Addison textile artist Gayle McClay Torrey. This song led to the band holding a special event at the Ruddington, England Framework Knitters Museum, which houses some of the earliest specimens of frame knitting machines. Discs and digital downloads are available through the band's website
www.ohanleigh.com and at
cdbaby.com.
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