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    This is an album I made a few years ago with some friends in California. All tracks are nice and low in the mellow key of B. I wanted to include it here as Bandcamp is such a great resource for Irish music fans. Hope you like it!

    The compact disc can be found on my website http://patrickdarcymusic.com/cd_rtk001_order.html
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Come all ye broken hearted ones and listen to my lay About a lovely damsel, as fair as any May Who's caused much tears and sorrow and grief and heartfelt woe It's Kitty Flynn I'm speaking of, the Pride of Pimlico It's just about a month ago unto this place she came And set our hearts a blazing up in love's undying flame And made of every other lass about the place a foe Because she took their sweethearts, did the Pride of Pimlico Poor Paddy Burke the tailor now can't do a stroke of work Nor Billy Shee the handyman, nor steady Jack McGurk And if you ax the reason all they'll answer you is "O Tis all because of Kitty Quinn, the Pride of Pimlico Murphy, the teetotaller now he's gone upon the spree And Keogh, the whiskey drinker, now is drinking milk and tea He's given up the Jameson, likewise the Power & Co. Because his hearts distracted by the Pride of Pimlico And even Kane, the miser that no one could get around And young Tom Ray who owns a fortune near a hundred pound And Matt McCann whose father keeps the Irish Waxwork show They're raving night and day about the Price of Pimlico Its time the polis saw to it, it soon will be too late An divil a man in all the Coombe will have a solid pate Or soon beyond in Riley's a sight of awful woe You'll see ten thousand victims of the Pride of Pimlico!
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Farewell to the groves of shillelagh and shamrock Farewell to the girls of Old Ireland all round May their hearts be as merry as ever they would wish for When far away across the ocean I'm bound   Oh my father is old and my mother quite feeble To leave their own country it grieves their hearts sore Oh the tears in great drops down their cheeks they are rolling To think they must die upon some far and foreign shore   But what matters to me where my bones may be buried If in peace and contentment I can spend my life Oh the green fields of Canada they daily are blooming It's there I'll put an end to my miseries and strife.   Then it's pack up your seastores and tarry no longer Ten dollars a week isn't very bad pay; With no taxes or tithes to devour up your wages When you're on the green fields of Amerikay   The sheep run unshorn and the land's gone to rushes, The blacksmiths are gone and the winders of creels, Away o'er the ocean go journeymen tailors, And fiddlers who flaked out the old mountain reels.   Farewell to the dances in homes now deserted, When tips struck the lightening in splanks from the floor, The paving and crigging of hobnails on flagstones The tears of the old folk and shouts of encore.   For the landlords and bailiffs in vile combination, Have forced us from hearthstone and homestead away May the crowbar brigade all be doomed to damnation When we're on the fields of Americay.   The timber grows thick on the slopes of Columbia With Douglas in grandeur two hundred feet tall, The salmon and sturgeon dam streamlet and river, And the high Rocky Mountains look down on it all.   On the prairie and plain sure the wheat waves all golden The maple gives sugar to sweeten your tay. You won't want for corn cob way out in Saskatchewan When you're in the green fields of Americkay.   And if you grow weary of pleasure and plenty Of fruit from the orchard and fish from the foam, There's health and good hunting 'way back in the forests Where herds of great moose and wild buffalo roam.   And it's now to conclude and to finish my ditty If ever friendless Irishmen chances my way With the best in the house I will treat him, and welcome At home in the green fields of Amerikay.
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about

Rattle the Knee brings the traditional music of Ireland to the far western shores of America. It's members have performed in well known local venues including the LA Music Center and the Ford Amphitheater, places around the country including the Grand Ol' Opry & Carnegie Hall, and far off places including The Royal Albert Hall and the pubs and stages of Japan.

The band name derives from Séamus Ennis' wonderful story "Don Nipiri Septo" Where Séamus describes a fairy-like character and the practicalities of farming duty, colloquialisms, and allergies to smoke. When Don "Rattles the knee of his knee britches..." we are transported into the world of the wee folk :)

Patrick D'Arcy hails from Dublin Ireland but has spent most of his musical life as a very influential uilleann piper of Southern California. He tours regularly both nationally and internationally and has appeared on numerous recordings. His solo album, "Wallop the Spot" has received critical acclaim and radio play both in the US and in Ireland. He is a founding member of the Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club and teaches locally, remotely (via internet) and around the country at uilleann piping tionóil (gatherings).

Kira Ott is a fiddler from Los Angeles and has been very active on the LA Irish music scene for many years. As a child she studied classical viola, but left that behind to play Irish music as a teenager. After spending many winters traveling to Donegal Ireland to learn at the Frankie Kennedy Winter School she took a few summers festival hopping around Ireland, learning and playing with many of the greats. She has performed and toured with numerous bands and teaches locally.

Pat and Kira have been playing pickup gigs together for many years while each played in other bands. Finally, under the name Rattle the Knee, they decided to make their music official. They've teamed up with Jimmy Murphy and Rattle the Knee was complete.

Jimmy Murphy, guitarist and mandolinist extraordinaire, has been a cornerstone of the traditional Irish music scene in southern California for over a decade. He has appeared in performance venues from the Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles to temples in Japan. He has performed on KPFK's "Global Village" with Eric Rigler, on KPFK's "Folkscene" with Mick Moloney and as part of the band Ciúnas, and live on KCSN's "Tied to the Tracks". Jimmy spent two years as a contracted musician in Japan; first as a soloist for Tokyo Disney Sea, then as a member of a band for Universal Studios, Japan, and finally as a key member for a four piece band again at Tokyo Disney Sea. He is the go-to guitarist for most Irish musicians in LA and has performed with both Pat and Kira in many musical configurations.

When you see Rattle the Knee, you will hear uilleann pipes, fiddle, and mandolin playing old dance tunes with driving rhythms on bódhran and guitar. Mixed in will be songs, marches and slow airs and maybe a story or two along the way.

Their debut album "Paving & Crigging" is set to be released August 1st, 2017. Unique, as the entire album is in the low-low key of B natural. Uilleann pipes, fiddle and guitar resound in this mellow key, once the standard key for the tunes being played here, perfect for Irish traditional tunes.

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released August 1, 2017

Uilleann Pipes, Whistles & Vocals (on track 8) - Patrick D'Arcy
Fiddle - Kira Ott
Guitar & Vocals (on track 5) - Jimmy Murphy
Recorded by Bryan Dobbs at SpiderCup Studios
Photography - Barry Fisher
Cover Design - John Ott
On this recording Patrick plays a Geoff Wooff B set

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Patrick D'Arcy Nashville, Tennessee

Patrick D'Arcy hails from Dublin, Ireland and has spent most of his musical life plying his craft in the US.

Patrick tours regularly both in the US and internationally. Currently with The Nashville Celts.

For 11 years he had the privilege to tour extensively from The Waterfront in Belfast to The Grand 'Ol Opry in Nashville with modern hymn writers Keith & Kristyn Getty.
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