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The Shire

Traditional Irish Music With A Punch

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To Book The Shire for Concerts, Weddings, and Feasts of any kind please contact:
Per prenotare i The Shire per Concerti, Matrimoni e Feste di ogni tipo, contattate:
Marzio Venuti Mazzi (english speaking) - (+39) 320/0311821
[email protected]
Luca Verzulli - (+39) 347/1307739
[email protected]
The Shire Band came up from the common passion of its members for traditional Irish music, its pourpoes is to spread the knowledge of this kind of music, going from the production of historical groups to the more recent celtic survey. The Shire's repertoire is made up of jigs, reel, polkas, hornpipes, airs and songs, going from more infectious moments to those more solemn and intimate. Most of the care is given to technical aspect, style, arrangements and tunes research.
The Shire band use the classical instruments of the Irish tradition: fiddle, flute, whistle, uillean pipe, harp and the "most recent addition to traditional Irish music", the guitar. A tipical show is varoius and fits very well in ballrooms and chambers situations as well.
Our is not an vapid imitation with the sole pourpose, sometimes typical in many non-native-irish bands (unfortunately especially here in Italy) of "challenge the Irish"; instead our approach is to pay a humble tribute to a wonderful, evocative, and pretty much "rockish" music. We believe that, with its syncopated rythm and catchy melodies, it gave a very big influence to modern popular and rock music, so beside enjoyning it a lot we honorate it spreading it the best we can.
La formazione dei The Shire nasce dalle comune passione dei suoi componenti per la musica tradizionale irlandese e si propone di far conoscere e diffondere la musica strumentale di quella nazione, spaziando tra la produzione dei gruppi considerati ormai storici e le sonorità del panorama più recente.
Il repertorio dei The Shire si compone di gighe, reels, polke, hornpipes, arie e canzoni in un’alternanza di ritmi trascinanti e momenti più raccolti. Particolare cura viene data agli aspetti tecnici, stilistici, agli arrangiamenti e alla ricerca dei brani.
I The Shire utilizzano gli strumenti classici della tradizione irlandese: violino, flauto, whistle e cornamusa, accompagnati da chitarra o bouzouki. Lo spettacolo, che alterna le atmosfere evocative delle slow airs a ritmi di danza più coinvolgenti, sempre nel pieno rispetto dei canoni stilistici, ben si adatta sia a situazioni di festa che a concerti di tipo più cameristico e solenni. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

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Member Since: 7/5/2007
Band Website: lucaverzulli.it/default.aspx
Band Members:
Marzio Venuti Mazzi - Chitarra, Irish Bouzouki, Irish Tenor Banjo, Lead Voice.
David "Davo" Scagnetti - Tin Whistle, Low Whistle, Small Pipe, Flute, Lead Voice, Spoons.
Luca Verzulli - Flute, Tin Whistle, Low Whistle, Voice.
Daniel Bagnani - Fiddle.
Marco Cignitti - Uillean Pipe, Tin Whistle.

Influences: Planxty, Bothy Band, Chieftains, Lunasa, Deanta, Alan Stivell, Michael McGoldrick, Solas, Dervish, Capercaille, Tannahill Weavers, and all the friends and family that help us to grow up every day with their attitude, support and commitment, they are our biggest influence.
Sounds Like: Beh e' difficile non somigliare a nessuno in questo genere quindi, amici, e' meglio che lo diciate voi se e a chi somigliamo.

Well it's difficult not to be similar to some other band in this very kind of music, so, in case, to name it it's up to you, friends.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Download our cd for free (NOT FROM EMULE)

for a compressed RAR version of our 2003 cd, you can open your browser and submit this link:http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/10/1751968/The.Shir e.%28folk.celtic.irish.gaelic.ceili.pizzica.tarantola...
Posted by The Shire on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:28:00 PST

Scaricate il cd dei The Shire da Emule (GRATIS)

Digitate "The Shire" nella ricerca di Emule, tra i primi 10 risultati dovrebbe comparire il nostro cd. E' un archivio compresso, espandetelo e godetevi le 12 tracce del nostro cd del 2004. Non mancate...
Posted by The Shire on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:07:00 PST

Download The Shire cd on Emule

Just type "The Shire" on the search string of Emule and you'll find our CD among the first ten results. It's a compressed archive that you have to expand to have our twelve tracks cd. Enjoy and send u...
Posted by The Shire on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:02:00 PST

Céilidh

Céilidh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Céilidh or céilí (pronounced "kay-lee") is a social event or disco, typically with Celtic music and dancing. The word céilidh is Scottish Gaelic for 'vi...
Posted by The Shire on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:22:00 PST

Irish traditional music session

Irish traditional music session From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Irish traditional music sessions are mostly-informal gatherings at which people play Irish traditional music. The Irish language...
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Session di musica tradizionale irlandese

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