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Skara Brae were an Irish traditional music group from Kells, County Meath with origins in Ranafast (Rann na Feirste), County Donegal. The group consisted of three siblings, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill , Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill , and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill , with Dáithí Sproule from Derry .
The Irish traditional music group Skara Brae took their name from the settlement. Their only album Skara Brae was released in 1971 and reissued on CD in 1998. A stone was unveiled in Skara Brae on 12 April 2008 marking the anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961. [61] [62]
Skara Brae is an album of Irish traditional music by the group Skara Brae.Released by Gael Linn Records in 1971, the self-titled album contains "beautifully performed Gaelic songs" [1] and is considered one of the most important albums in its genre, notable as the first recording to include vocal harmonization in Irish language songs.
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Their music effectively combined "original acoustic chamber music with an Irish feel mixing jazz, classical, folk and new age idioms." [1] Their original music made full use of the Ó Domhnaill's folk background, the folk/jazz combinations of Skara Brae, Brian Dunning's jazz background, and Bill Oskay's classical influences. [1]
It was in Dublin that he entered the music scene which was prominent in Ireland at the time. As a teenager he had met the Ó Domhnaill family during trips to the Gaeltacht area of Rann na Feirste in County Donegal, and while in Dublin they formed a band, Skara Brae, who would go on to have a great effect on Irish traditional music.
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