CRAN are a unique group in the Irish folk-music world with their own highly-individualistic approach and a bewildering array of styles andrepertoire. Each member of the trio already had international reputations in their own fields before the band was formed. Desi Wilkinson had becomea major force in the field of Irish flute-playing, both at home and abroad; Sean Corcoran was known internationally as one of the leading singers inthe Hiberno-English and Gaelic traditions and also as a researcher and teacher; Ronan Browne had not only carved out a name for himself as one ofthe leading lights among the younger generation of uilleann pipers - he was already giving master-classes on the instrument in Europe and the U.S.A.
CRAN's concert performances are a dazzling display of technical virtuosity combined with fun and humour, banter and stories. The core of theirrepertoire is their native Irish material - bubbling dance music or haunting slow airs on fluteand pipes, and vocals ranging from the highly-ornamented sean-nós songs of Conamara to therollicking port a'bhéil or mouth music of Donegal. Their Hiberno-English song repertoire (songs from Ireland in English)covers the entire gamut from the old story-telling "long ballads" to lively comic songs of "pure divilment and rascality". Theyalso include material from the related Scots-Gaelic tradition and from the other Atlantic Celts, the Bretons.
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