True to the beloved cabbage-potato-onion concoction for which they're named, Colorado-based quintet Colcannon serve up a piping hot, wonderfully toothsome Irish dish. The ingredients? Mick Bolger on bodhran (hand drum) and vocals, Rod Garnett on wooden flutes and fifes, Mike Fitzmaurice on double bass and guitar, Jean Harrison on fiddle and accordion, and Brian Mullins on guitar, mandolin, and bouzouki, wrapped around a fine selection of traditional and original Irish music, with a generous dollop of originality thrown in as well (check out Mick's cornet playing). A taste or two of this passionate, moving music reveals a successful blend of contemporary styles with the heart and essence of traditional Celtic music. Five albums (most recently Corvus, released in 2000 by Oxford Road Music), concerts and radio airplay across North America and Europe, and a PBS television special, Colcannon in Concert, have helped make them one of the country's most popular Celtic groups. What more can we say but "Come and get it!"
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