New single out now
Our lates single – Maids of Mitchelstown is now available on all major platforms. The tune is a slow reel and the arrangement echoes the version Bothy Band did many
Irish and Scottish music
Our lates single – Maids of Mitchelstown is now available on all major platforms. The tune is a slow reel and the arrangement echoes the version Bothy Band did many
This time we recorded two solo videos: A pipes solo from Ketil and an obscure Swedish Polska from Juha. Check the videos in main menu.
We have just released two new tunes, available on all major platforms: Eleanore Plucknett, a tune by the blind harper Turlaugh O’Carolan, composed in the 1700s. We play it in
We have recorded five new tunes. The EP is appropriately named ‘At Home’. This fine music is available on all major digital platforms: Spotify, Amazon Tidal…
Despite the Corona restrictions we have managed to keep up some activities: A video recorded at a digital scene in Fredrikstad, Norway without live audience. and another video of us
Fir Arda played in front of a live audience for first time in Halden. We were very pleased for the responce. See exerpts from the gig in the videos.
We have released two new tunes on all major platforms: O’Carolan’s Welcome featuring Ketil on Uilleann Pipes for the first time and What the Piano Knows/Dunmore Lasses. What the Piano
We are so exited. Lots of activities sceduled for 2020 already. Two new videoes posted, three concerts scheduled and two new songs to be released soon.
New video: The Christmas carol Silent Night coupled with Christmas Eve Reel. We recorded the video in a greenhouse in Halden – with cold fingers and cold instruments. Merry Christmas
Fir Arda’s New video is O’Carolan’s Welcome. Turlough O’Carolan (1670 – 1738) was a blind Celtic harper and singer in Ireland. The title Carolan’s Welcome was given to this piece