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The High Kings is an Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 2008. The band consists of Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, and Paul O'Brien. [1] As of 2023, the group had released five studio albums, four live albums, two live DVDs, and one greatest hits album.
The High Kings album Friends for Life was released in 2013, and the opening track was a Holden original called "Oh Maggie", which became the most-played and downloaded song from the album in Ireland, the UK and particularly Germany. [citation needed] The album reached number 5 in the Irish Top 40, Number 3 on Billboard ' s World Albums chart.
Brian Dunphy (born 17 June 1974, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish folk singer and son of the showband singer Sean Dunphy, [1] who represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. As a performer and member of the Irish folk band The High Kings , Brian Dunphy has toured the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
In the English Folk Song and Dance periodical "Folk Music Journal" vol 10 (2015), Brian Peters claimed that the origin of the song was a seventeenth century English Broadside written by Thomas Lanfiere. [1] This evolved into several distinct versions found in England, Scotland, Ireland and North America. Shortly afterwards it became popular in ...
"Finnegan's Wake" (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [1] [2] [3] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels, claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established.
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"Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?") is a Scottish/Irish folk song.The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), but were adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake (1885–1971) into "Wild Mountain Thyme" and ...
The last film in the "High School Musical" trilogy, "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," turns 15 on Tuesday, and you know what that means: It's time to revisit — and rank — all 11 songs from ...