Voices & Harps
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Voices & Harps is a music
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 album
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 by Irish
Irish people
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 musician
Musician
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s 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"...

 and Cormac de Barra
Cormac de Barra
Cormac de Barra is a harpist, singer and television presenter and is part of the Moya Brennan Band.-Biography:De Barra comes from a family of traditional musicians and singers from Dublin but with roots in County Cork...

. It was released on 28 June 2011 in the United States. The album is a remastered and remixed version of the 2010 album My Match Is A Makin'
My Match Is A Makin'
My Match Is A Makin' is a music album by Irish musicians Moya Brennan and Cormac de Barra. This is Moya's eighth album to be released. It was released on the 14 April 2010 exclusively to concert goers on her Spring 2010 tour of The Netherlands...

.

Release

Voices & Harps was released during Brennan and de Barra's United States tour in the Summer of 2011, although was available from the duo's website in the months before.

Track listing

The album's tracklisting differs slightly from that of My Match Is A Makin.
* Renamed, released on "My Match Is A Makin'" under the Gaelic title, 'Tá Mo Chleamhnas a Dhéanamh'

** New track

*** Renamed, released on "My Match Is A Makin'" as 'Mo Mhian'

Personnel

  • Moya Brennan – Vocals, Harp, Percussion, Keyboards
  • Cormac De Barra – Harp, Vocals, Percussion, Keyboards
  • Máire Breatnach
    Máire Breatnach
    Máire Breatnach is one of the most prominent fiddle players in Ireland. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums. Since the early 1990s, she has had five solo albums, participated in many other albums , with substantive contributions in some cases, and contributed to many music CDs, as well as...

     – Fiddle, Viola
  • Aisling Jarvis – Bouzouki
  • Ian Parker
    Ian Parker
    Ian Parker is a Scottish keyboard player.He showed a natural ability to play the piano from a very early age. He started piano lessons when he was seven. His early influences were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Stax and Atlantic Soul...

     – Keyboards
  • Éamonn De Barra – Flute, Bodhran
  • Noel Eccles – Percussion
  • John Reynolds
    John Reynolds (musician)
    John Reynolds is a record producer. He was the first husband of singer Sinéad O'Connor; they have one child, Jake. Reynolds, formerly a drummer for Jah Wobble, met O'Connor and recorded her first album, The Lion and the Cobra...

    – Drums
  • Kevin Armstrong – Guitar

  • Produced by Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra
  • Additional production by John Reynolds
  • Recorded and Engineered by Lochlainn Harte, John Bradshaw and Fionán De Barra
  • Mixed by John Reynolds and Tim Oliver

  • Photography by Mella Travers
  • Sleeve Design by Tim Jarvis and Mella Travers

Release history

Country Release Date
United States (June 2011)

External links

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