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Ben the Newfoundland looks crazy!

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Footage of Shaun Davey's 'The Brendan Voyage' with soloist Liam O'Flynn. With his first major work, 'The Brendan Voyage' (1980) - Available for download from iTunes, Amazon, etc. -, Shaun Davey opened up totally new musical territory. For the first time, in a suite especially written for uilleann pipes soloist Liam O'Flynn, a traditional musician was integrated with a classical orchestra. The uilleann pipe passages in the Brendan suite, capturing all the force, emotion and beauty of Irish traditional music, here blend with the symphony orchestra in a synthesis of old and new, which has enchanted audiences around the world. 'The Brendan Voyage' is an emotive, symbolic work, seeming to answer a need in the Irish people to recognise and prove that a soloist representing an aural tradition can hold the stage on equal footing with members of a symphony orchestra. The theme of Shaun Davey's seminal work is the epic voyage of historian Tim Severin who, in 1976, set sail in a small leather-covered boat to retrace the voyage undertaken by St. Brendan, Abbot of Clonfert in the year 500 AD. According to Irish legend, St. Brendan, with a band of fellow missionaries, embarked in a fragile curragh to reach what many scholars believe was the New World. Tim Severin set out to test the legend, constructing his leather boat, 'The Brendan', in the ancient way and setting sail from Brandon Creek, Co. Kerry, on the first leg of a journey to Newfoundland. In Severin's account the boat takes on ...

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A video about the Island of Newfoundland!

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newfoundland sisters' snowy playfight

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Slainte performing Sonny's Dream in Clarenville, NL.

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