James Galway & Phil Coulter: Winter's Crossing CD Track Listing

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James Galway & Phil Coulter Winter's Crossing
An inspiring collectino of seasonal music... from spirited jigs to touching melodies, Winter's Crossing tells the tale of the men and women who braved a rough ocean crossing to come to America from Northern Ireland, full of hope and strength.
This folk cd contains 14 tracks and runs 54min 44sec.
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1. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Slieve Gallion Braes-Steal Away (04:06)
   Our story begins in the mountains of Country Tyrone. In the half life of dawn, ten families recently evicted from their lands set off to walk the fifty miles to Derry to catch the emigrant ship. The odd sad song is sung on their journey, for their heart
2. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Farewell to Country Antrim (03:19)
   At the quayside they encounter another group of emigrants--from County Antrim. Some are playing an Irish hornpipe to take their mind off their sadness, while a different bunch, who are Scots Presbyterians, warm up their pipes and drums in a march. Both
3. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Thousands Are Sailing (02:51)
   In our research for this project we turned up a contemporary account of a heartbreaking departure. Read by Liam Neeson, this is Thousands Are Sailing.
4. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Cailin na Gruaige Baine (04:50)
   Back at the quayside in Derry, the Gaelic speakers from Donegal, even more intimidated than the others, camp for the night a little distance away. As heavy rain begins to fall, a young girl sings in the darkness, of the love she will never set eyes on ag
5. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Winter's Crossing (02:50)
   Finally underway, the ship pulls clear of Lough Foyle heading for the open sea. The emigrants crowd the decks looking longly ashore, straining for one final glimpse of the hills of their homeland. All are heartbroken. Some are terrified of what lies ah
6. James Galway & Phil Coulter - The Gartan Mother's Lullabye (03:38)
   Two weeks at sea and the crossing has been very rough. Deep in the bowels of the ship in the damp and misery of steerage, a young mother, cold, hungry and disoriented, follows her most basic instinct of comfort her baby by creating a small haven of peace
7. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Grand Banks Newfoundland (04:42)
   Six weeks at sea. An icy dawn breaks to find the ship moving slowly through dense fog. The sound of seagulls tells them they are getting within sight of the first landfall, and the high swell and rolling sea are warnings that they are over the treachero
8. James Galway & Phil Coulter - The Shores of Amerikay (05:21)
   It is days later before the fog lifts and they get their first distant view of the East Coast of America. When the initial excitement and the deep sense of relief subside, reality dawns. They will shortly set foot in a strange land where they have no fa
9. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Christmas Eve, Ellis Island (04:34)
   In years to come, hundreds of thousands of immigrants would feel their hearts soar and their spirits rise as they first caught sight of the city of New York. The euphoria would be short-lived. They would be set ashore at Ellis Island, the notorious quar
10. James Galway & Phil Coulter - The Belfast Polka - Pennsylvania Railroad (03:19)
    "All our wars were happy, our songs were sad." The Irish were never sad for too long. These were country folk, so from New York they pressed westward to the farmland and hills of Pennsylvania. As they made new friends and met new neighbours, one of the
11. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Home Away From Home (03:59)
    Time passes slowly in their new land, and they gradually acclimate to new surroundings, new people and the vastness of this new country of seemingly endless horizons. Another day dawns over the fertile land of Pennsylvania, as they wake to greet the sunr
12. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Hymn for the Heartland (04:35)
    However much they immerse themselves in their work and these new surroundings, their thoughts are never far from their homeland. They gather to pray, to celebrate, to draw strength from their shared experience and to remember the old country. This is a
13. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Steal Away (03:34)
    Years pass with births, marriages and deaths. The immigrants are growing older in this new land. Was it really thirty years since they sang that song of parting as they said goodbye forever to their loved ones?
14. James Galway & Phil Coulter - Appalachian Round-up (02:58)
    The immigrants never forgot their homeland. Never forgot their music and they sure as hell never forgot how to party! Appalachian Round-up is a celebration of their new homeland and an affirmation of the human spirit.