San Patricio is an album by the Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 musical group, The Chieftains

The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

 and Ry Cooder

Ry Cooder

Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...

, released in 2010. It tells the story of the San Patricio battalion

Saint Patrick's Battalion

The Saint Patrick's Battalion , formed and led by Jon Riley, was a unit of 175 to several hundred immigrants and expatriates of European descent who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. Most of the battalion's members had...

 - a group of Irish immigrant volunteer soldiers who deserted the U.S. Army in 1846 to fight on the Mexican side in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The album features collaborations with Moya Brennan

Moya Brennan

Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin , also known as Máire Brennan , is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist who began performing professionally in 1970, when her family formed the band Clannad, and is now widely considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music"...

, Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

Liam John Neeson, OBE is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards.He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les...

, and Chavela Vargas

Chavela Vargas

Isabel Vargas Lizano is a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She is especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres...

 (among others).

Track listing

1. La Iguana – 3:34 (with Lila Downs))
2. La Golondrina – 3:08 (with Los Folkloristas)
3. A la Orilla de un Palmar – 3:32 (with Linda Ronstadt)
4. Danza de Concheros – 1:29 (with Los Folkloristas)
5. El Chivo – 2:05 (with Los Cenzontles)
6. San Campio – 2:45 (with Carlos Nunez)
7. The Sands of Mexico – 4:47 (with Ry Cooder)
8. Sailing to Mexico – 2:00 (with Carlos Nunez)
9. El Caballo – 2:40 (with Los Camperos de Valles)
10. March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande) – 4:10 (with Banda de Gaita de Batallón, Liam Neeson, Los Cenzontles, L.A. Juvenil)
11. Lullaby for the Dead – 4:36 (with Moya Brennan)
12. Luz de Luna – 3:30 (with Chavela Vargas)
13. Persecución de Villa – 2:55 (with Mariachi Santa Fe de Jesus (Chuy) Guzman)
14. Canción Mixteca (Intro) – 2:54 (with Ry Cooder)
15. Canción Mixteca – 3:14 (with Los Tigres del Norte)
16. Ojitos Negros – 2:24 (with Los Cenzontles)
17. El Relampago – 3:15 (with Lila Downs)
18. El Pájaro Cu – 2:35 (with La Negra Graciana)
19. Finale – 5:46 (with Banda de Gaita de Batallón, Carlos Nunez, Los Cenzontles, L.A. Juvenil, Los Folkloristas)

Bonus Disc - DVD (Deluxe Edition only)

1. The Making of San Patricio
2. La Iguana (with Lila Downs)
3. Canción Mixteca (with Los Tigres del Norte)
4. Luz de Luna (with Chavela Vargas)

Personnel

• Olga Alanis - Percussion
• Jose Lopez Alavez - Composer
• Juan Carlos Allende - Guitar
• Sergio Alonso - Harp
• Pancho Alvarez - Bouzouki
• Stephen Armstrong - Assistant Engineer
• Hugo Arroyo - Tuba, Vocals, Guitarron, Quijada
• Ersi Arvizu - Vocals
• Jose Avila - Percussion
• Marisa Bautista - Vocals
• Moya Brennan
  Moya Brennan
  Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin , also known as Máire Brennan , is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist who began performing professionally in 1970, when her family formed the band Clannad, and is now widely considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music"...
  
   - Vocals
• Jorge López Calderón - Drums (Snare)
• Rene Camacho - Bass, Bass (Upright)
• Los Camperos de Valles - Arranger
• A. Carrillo - Composer
• Álvaro Carrillo
  Álvaro Carrillo
  Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was a Mexican popular music composer born in San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca, on 2 December 1921, who died in a car accident on 3 April 1969...
  
   - Composer
• Edmar Castaneda - Harp, Cuatro
• Gabriel Castañón - Assistant Engineer
• Paul Cohen - Vocals
• Larissa Collins - Art Direction, Package Design
• Kevin Conneff
  Kevin Conneff
  Kevin Conneff is more familiarly known as the voice and rhythmic heartbeat of the legendary Irish folk group, The Chieftains, through his talents as vocalist and bodhrán player. He joined the group in 1976, replacing Peadar Mercier who had been the second bodhrán player for the group...
  
   - Bodhrán, Lilting
• Ry Cooder
  Ry Cooder
  Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...
  
   - Guitar, Piano, Composer, Timbales, Vocals, Producer, Laud
• Raúl Cuellar - Violin
• Robert Curto - Accordion
• Lila Downs
  Lila Downs
  Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...
  
   - Arranger, Vocals, Step Dancing
• Ernesto Villalobos
  Villalobos Brothers
  The Villalobos Brothers are a trio of virtuoso violinists, singer-songwriters, composers, arrangers, and multi-talented instrumentalists...
  
   - Fiddle, Jarana, Vocals
• Celso Duarte
  Celso Duarte
  Celso Duarte is a virtuoso of Paraguayan harp and Mexican jarocho harp, arranger, singer, and multi-talented instrumentalist...
  
   - Fiddle, Harp, Vocals
• Mary Farquharson - Coordination, Research
• Raúl Durrand Flores - Assistant Engineer
• Sofia Fojas - Violin
• Los Folkloristas - Arranger
• Arturo Gallardo - Clarinet
• Julian Gonzalez - Violin, Arranger

• Brendan Graham
  Brendan Graham
  Brendan Graham is an Irish novelist and composer. He has published three novels, The Whitest Flower , an Irish no. 2 best seller, The Element of Fire and The Brightest Day, The Darkest Night .He also wrote the lyrics for Rolf Løvland's "You Raise Me Up"...
  
   - Composer
• Bernie Grundman
  Bernie Grundman
  -Biography:He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1983 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan and Brian Gardner, mastered 37 projects which received Grammy Award nominations in 2005.Grundman...
  
   - Mastering
• Jesus "Chuy" Guzman - Violin
• Jesus Guzman
  Jesús Guzmán
  Jesús Antonio Guzmán is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball.-Professional career:Guzmán was signed by the Seattle Mariners as an undrafted free agent in 2000...
  
   - Violin
• Carlos Henderson - Bass
• Camilo Ramirez Hernandez - Violin
• Eduardo Hernández
  Eduardo Hernández
  Julio Eduardo Hernández Fuentes is a retired football goalkeeper from El Salvador who was one of the three non-playing members of his country's squad at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.-International career:...
  
   - Bass (Electric), Vocals, Bass (Acoustic)
• Hernán Hernández - Bass (Electric), Vocals
• Hugo Hernandez - Drums (Bass)
• Jorgé Hernández - Accordion, Vocals
• Luis Hernández - Accordion, Vocals, Bajo Sexto
• Marcos Hernandez - Vocals, Huapanguera
• Ubaldo Hernandez - Trumpet
• Juancho Herrera - Guitar, Vocals
• Don Hoffman - Engineer
• Daniel García Hughes - Drums (Snare)
• Javier Rodriguez - Trumpet
• Juan Jimenez
  Juan Jiménez
  Juan Jiménez may refer to:* Juan Jiménez de Montalvo , Spanish colonial administrator* Juan Isidro Jimenez Pereyra , Dominican politician* Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish poet...
  
   - Guitarron
• Jimmy Cuellar - Violin
• Guadalupe Jolicoeur - Coordination, Art Direction, Research
• Seán Keane
  Seán Keane (fiddler)
  Seán Keane was born on July 12, 1946 in Dublin. He is a well-respected fiddler, and also a fiddle teacher. He was a member of Ceoltóirí Chualann in the 1960s, before joining The Chieftains in 1968...
  
   - Fiddle
• Oscar Lara - Drums
• Jeffrey Lesser - Engineer
• Germán López - Vihuela
• Samuel Margarito Lozano - Composer
• Steve Macklam - Art Direction
• Mariachi Santa Fe De Jesus (Chuy) Guzman - Vocals
• Tríona Marshall - Harp
• Neil Martin - Cello
• Brain Masterson - Engineer
• Brian Masterson - Engineer, Mixing
• Bart Migal - Assistant Engineer, Associate Engineer

• Matt Molloy
  Matt Molloy
  Matt Molloy is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at only seventeen years old...
  
   - Flute
• Paddy Moloney
  Paddy Moloney
  Paddy Moloney is one of the founders of the Irish musical group The Chieftains and has played on every one of their albums.He was born in Donnycarney in Dublin. His mother bought him a tin whistle when he was six and at the age of eight he started to learn the Uilleann pipes. He also plays button...
  
   - Arranger, Composer, Producer, Liner Notes, Uillean Pipes, Tin Whistle, Mixing, Tin Cans
• Rogelio Navarrate - Clarinet
• Liam Neeson
  Liam Neeson
  Liam John Neeson, OBE is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards.He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les...
  
   - Narrator
• La Negra Graciana - Arranger
• Niamh Ní Charra - Concertina
• Adrian Nieto - Mandolin, Percussion
• Carlos Núñez
  Carlos Núñez
  Carlos Núñez is a Galician musician who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe.-Life and career:Nuñez was born in 1971 in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. He began playing the bagpipes when he was eight years old. In his early teens, he was invited to play with the Festival Orchestra of the...
  
   - Gaita, Low Whistle
• Xurxo Nunez - Drums, Guitar (Electric), Engineer
• Felipe Ochoa - Vocals, Requinto
• Marco Ochoa - Vocals, Jarana
• Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
  
   - Piano, Accordion
• Miguel Pena - Guitar
• Jon Pilatzke - Fiddle, Step Dancing
• Martin Pradler - Engineer
• Mike Riley - Assistant Engineer
• Alberto J. Rodríguez - Assistant Engineer
• Eugene Rodriguez - Arranger, Vihuela
• Gabriela Rodriguez - Percussion
• Juan Rodríguez - Violin
• Luciana Rodriguez - Vocals
• Albert J. Roman - Design Assistant
• Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
   - Arranger, Vocals
• Yayo Serka - Cajon
• Graciana Silva - Harp, Vocals
• Gregorio Solano - Vocals, Jarana
• Samuel Torres
  Samuel Torres
  Samuel Torres is a Colombian percussionist and composer. He was born in Bogotá, and started playing at age twelve and became involved with different bands in his hometown. Although, he received classical training, Torres was intrigued by the different styles and rhythms of the Latinamerican and...
  
   - Conga, Maracas, Cajon
• Fabiola Truijillo - Vocals
• Omar Valdez - Percussion
• Chavela Vargas
  Chavela Vargas
  Isabel Vargas Lizano is a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She is especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres...
  
  - Vocals
• Efrén Vargas - Mandolin, Percussion
• Rodolfo Vazquez - Engineer, Field Recording

External links

• The Chieftains official website - official website