St Paddy Slaps Ya In Da Face

With St. Paddy's day approaching i'm dedicating a whole week on great Celtic bands from Ireland and some from right here in Newfoundland and Canada. Irish music has been close to my heard since my younger years. Hearing jigs and reels on the radio just about every Sunday morning home, I can just look back and feel the salt air wave over me with the sea shanties and get taken away to rolling rocks and green grassy fields of old Ireland. I felt the best song to start off the week long blog dedication was Fiddlers Green by legendary Celtic group The Dubliners. Its a close connection that Newfoundland has with Ireland being a song about a heaven for fishermen which what really build my Newfoundland home. You can really tell that this song was written by a fisherman for fishermen with a poignant salty taste left in your mouth while listening to it. Its one of my favorite Irish tunes being covered a thousand times by groups all over the world including Newfoundland. Its a hard life being a fisherman. A life stricken with hard work and long days. They work hard, drink hard and you can really feel it while listening to this song. It gives me goodbumps just listening to the lyrics and Barney sing the song like it was his own. But Barney McKenna and The Dubliners really make it their own especially since McKenna himself is a true fisherman, its as if hes singing his own testament. Have a fun and safe week everyone, its Irish week!