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After an eight-year break, Celtic Ensemble alone marks its 30th anniversary with a tour, it took a little time again, according to multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan.

“This race for us is approximately five weeks, which, having not been an excursion for so long, we had to train,” he said. “In a way, our” rocky “music in progress.

Three of the members of the organization, Egan (flute, tenor banjo, nylon guitar, whistles, mandolina), John Williams (Button Accordion, Concertina) and Winifred Horan (violin) will join through Nuala Kennedy (song, flute) and Alan Murray (guitar, bouzouki, vocal) when his city trip The city of the city 4.

“It went well. After our interruption of 8 years, we were quite silent of this era, we were not completely sure if the public would be there on our return, and if they were, what they would have,” said Egan, “it was actually comforting, the reception that we would have received every night, so it was very comforting. “

The Irish-American / Folk group, which formed in 1996, launched a live album that covered several concerts over the years, with the CD that only had the shows.

In a call Thursday from the road, Egan discussed ending the hiatus, the band sound, and opting for applicable canopy songs:

How did you know that it was the right time to finish rest?

It was only a feeling, really, that at some point, when we made the decision to take a break, he left open. It was not the last in any way, in one way or another, and in my opinion, I felt that if I deserved to have a chance to join, it would look like a very biological perception that can begin to establish itself. And that’s what happened.

During the break of the break, he would periodically get an email with recordings that our sound had done when we had filmed in Europe. Without us knowing, he had made recordings when he could just some of the shows. So I would only send me and kept them and never pay attention to them. It was last year, I worked on the nerves to pay attention to what it was, and brought intelligent memories. I think it was the spark that revived the concept that it can be a thing to see if we can come back in combination and see if someone was interested.

Did you miss out on this functionality a bit?

Yes, alone, we have made many albums over the years, but we have been a live (group). The most productive component of alone, I think, occurs at the level and in this type of interaction with the public. I think it was what I was answering in the recordings because in this live environment and, above all, without knowing that you are recorded, there was this power and this unconsciousness in the game and a safe threat taking.

Sometimes the threat has taken off, and it was a bit blinking, but it was the power and brain of this that I think it was what was answering, and having had enough time far from the genuine reminiscence of the functionality that was almost as if it were listening to something else. In fact, those recordings ended up adjusting what has become our new album because we have taken a lot of those recordings, I think 14 songs or anything, and compiled a live album that represents the most productive component of the group, which reproduces just in front of the public.

How do they have the compatibility of the new members and replaced the dynamics of the group?

They are very good, actually great. There will be another power when you have other new people sitting with you. But you must create an area to feel lazy to explain in this context. It is not as if it were mandatory to look like another person. We need them to be themselves. This is the contribution, and we take me merit. Actually, we are beginning to locate our rhythm with their contributions.

With alone music, how does it fill classic Irish songs with a fashion influence?

Our whole story is firmly in Irish culture, and I think there is a false concept that if it comes from the background of a very strong culture, it is closed to external influences. But the organization formed in New York in the mid -90s, and even if we were all in this community, we were still in a position in which we had the possibility of being exposed to so many other music and other cultures, everything, everything existing for everything.

First, we are musicians and our ears are at all times open to attractive things. I think we never doubted to integrate external influences in what we do. We are lucky that Irish music is such a strong culture and that the melodies and songs are so powerful that those other influences hung on them can resist, that you are never far from the nucleus, even if it can also be a fresh song. This can also take tools or techniques of resolutely non -culture or other production techniques or harmonic options. But the design and base of Irish music are strong enough to face many dyes that would not be Irish shadow.

How do you find the topical that you upload to the show?

This is anything that was a component of the group’s repertoire. However, in some aspects, unfortunately some of those songs that we recorded 30 years ago, and those songs that had been written 30, 40, 50 years before, unfortunately, they are still relevant. (Laughs) we put the filming for this excursion of a song through Peggy Seger entitled “Song of Choice”, which we recorded in our third album with Iris Dement.

This song is a precaution of the invasive fascist state. And it is not happy that this song has relevance today. It is a difficult song, and we did it every night, as well as a song through Guthrie Woody, “Paste Planty”. There are examples of songs that are not yet Irish culture that adapt gently to Irish music, which, in many ways, is music contrary to imperialism and oppression and all those things. So, contextual, it is not far away.

Gowho: Solaswhen: 7:30 p. m. March Where: City Winery Pittsburgh, Strip DistrictTickets: Tofrom $0, CityWinery. com

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