Video Gallery

Video provided by Marjorie Power. Dance to "Maggie Brown's Favorite Jig", Caller David Millstone. Dance to Carolan Tunes (English Country & Contra dances) to open the 7th Annual Carolan Festival. Location: Capitol City (Montpelier) Grange Hall. Music by Festival Musicians.

History of Irish harps and harpers; dance and vocal associations.

Interesting bio. of Carolan, and traditional Irish and Baroque influences on his compositions. (Disagree with her definition of "Planxty"; only a very few were called Planxties by Carolan- not all tunes in honor of patrons.) Planxty probably was a term of his invention, per O'Sullivan.

Elizabeth step dances to Turlough Carolan's Morgan Magan - performed at the 2007 Worcester, Vermont Carolan Festival. Bill Lynn, videographer

2007 Carolan Festival, Worcester, Vermont - Loftus Jones by John Mallery (founder of our festival) on the keyboard and Emery Hutchins (former Angel Band member) on the bodhran.  Footage by Bill Lynn, our festival's fantastic filmmaker.

Mark Harmer