Major General Mike Coyne USMCR (Ret);

former Commanding General, 4th Marine Division

Track List

1. Magnificent Bastards
2. Vietnam Veteran
3. When the East Wind Blew
4. Rolling Thunder
5. Dear Sarah
6. Magnificent Basterds March
7. Spirit of Freedom
8. Medal of Honor
9. D-Day
10. Here Comes the Echo
11. Marine Corps Hymn
12. My Brave Young Son

Danny O’Flaherty is an essentially Irish character with the Celtic love of words and music buried deep within his marrowbone.  Many Irishmen reflect too well William Butler Yeats description: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy”.

 Danny O’Flaherty, on the contrary, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for life and an indomitable spirit in the face of adversity.

Growing up in the West of Ireland nurtured this strength.  It’s a wild, windswept landscape, not kind to the weak, and proves the old adage “that which doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”.  It’s truer still in Danny’s case for even Hurricane Katrina and subsequent tempests were unable to dim his zest for life, for music, or his flair for enthralling an audience with his intense love of Celtic culture.

The long dark winter evenings gathered ’round the turf fire encouraged a thorough and diverse musical upbringing.  The elders handed on the rich oral tradition; the astounding thousand-year-old poetic sagas and the Connaught love songs and dance tunes they had learned from their parents.

It’s a lasting legacy of wit, gaiety, and warmth which has carried Danny around the world.  He still clings to the old traditional airs but is inspired, as in this new collection, to sing his own hear-felt compositions.  The variety of emotions expressed in the fifteen songs on “He Believes in Me,” are adorned with, and rooted in, that distinctively Gaelic lyricism that survives in the DNA of Danny O’Flaherty.

Danny Doyle

Track List

1. Don’t Cry Little Eyes
2. Just the Way You Are
3. Heart’s Greenest Valley
4. Nellie
5. I Could Have, But I Didn’t
6. He Believes in Me
7. In My Dreams [You Didn’t Go Away]
8. I’ll Be Back
9. That Precious Girl
10. Whisper on the Wind
11. Let’s Walk Together
12. Maggie
13. That’s What Life is Made Of
14. When I’m Coming Home to You
15. I Believe in You

Track List

1. Only Our Rivers Run Free
2. Ireland from St. Patrick to Cromwell
3. The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls (Oral Interpretation)
4. The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls
5. Ireland and Penal Laws
6. The Wearing of the Green
7. Ireland and the Great Hunger
8. The Fields of Athenry
9. Ireland and Independence
10. Grace

The disc’s crown jewel, “Coming Home to You,” was literally written when O’Flaherty and son Liam evacuated that black Sunday, making the Crescent City reference “Will we ever see you like you were before?” that much more chilling. “Here in the Heart of Our Memories” serves as the cathartic answer song as the chorus cries out, “My dear, my dear, there’s nothing to fear. / It’s time to start over again.” Possibly the only Gaelic language recount ever recorded, “Droch Sceal Go New Orleans” (“Bad New For New Orleans”) was actually recorded for Irish television so every Gaelic speaker, regardless of ability, could comprehend Katrina’s destructive wrath. Throughout, O’Flaherty touches upon Irish culture while consummating the imagery with warm, reassuring, Irish-accented vocals that hover above all.

Dan Willging, Offbeat Magazine

Track List

1. Legacy
2. Flower Dance
3. Eddie’s Song
4. Secret Garden
5. Stone Circle
6. Ta Gra Am Duith I Gconai
7. Yes I can
8. Coming Home to You
9. Here in the Heart of our Memories
10. Droch Sceal Go New Orleans
11. Minstrel Rhymes
12. Sweet Jamie

Special thanks to Brendan Scott, Erin Seidiman, and Misha Kashkashkishivili for making this special night memorable and for you the audience–this wouldn’t be the same.

For almost sixteen years you’ve made every night in the ballad room very special–thank you for the memories.

Danny

Track List

1. Darby Day in Ireland
2. Traveling Man
3. Old Dun Cow
4. Loch Ness Monster
5. Erin
6. Dunne Song
7. Angus
8. Dear Boss
9. O’Hooligan’s Ball
10. Irish, They Drink Water
11. Steve O’Donnell’s Wake
12. October Roses
13. Jigs
14. Pub with no Beer
15. Bleann an Bo
16. The Keeper

1. Here Comes the Echo
2. Vietnam Veteran
3. Launching of the USS LA
4. Medal of Honor
5. D-Day
6. Wind and the Tree
7. Tears in the Wind
8. Sarsfield of the Horse
9. For the Soldiers
10. Angel Fireman
11. My Dearest Love
12. Every Child is a Star
13. Farewell to John John
14. Amazing Grace

This led to our recording of The Monster Picnic.  We hope that the children and their moms and dads enjoy singing along together.  The other songs are based on fairy tales, sea creatures, and other animals on our planet.

We hope you enjoy this CD as much as we enjoyed writing and recording it for you.  

We want to thank all the musicians, St. Rosalie Middle School, Little Oak Middle School, and a very special thanks to Misha for his creativeness and hard work.  To our own families, thank you for your support.

We hope this CD will bring you joy and inform us all about our fragile planet.

God Bless,

Danny and Khaetidawne

Track List

1. Magic in the Air
2. Nessette & Nestor’s Song
3. The Monster Picnic
4. Baby Brothers Coming Soon
5. Sleepy, Sleepy
6. The Leprechaun
7. Magic Dancing Dragons
8. The Big Blue Sea
9. Buck & Emma
10. The Silver Seahorse
11. Waltzing with Blue
12. Yellow Bus to the Zoo
13. Farewell Song

All my life, I have wanted to record a group of songs that were meaningful…about things that I believe in.  With “From the Heart”, I have finally been able to achieve this.  Some of the songs I have written, others were written by friends, and still others were written by people who share my deep feelings and personal concerns.

Some of the songs are about love-love of another person, love of country; some are about respect, respect for the environment, respect for all people.  We must all learn to love and respect.

This recording is a testimonial to what I believe and because of these beliefs, all that I am today.  I hope you will enjoy listening as much as I have enjoyed singing them for you.

God Bless,

Daniel O’Flaherty

Track List

1. Eirinn
2. Margaret
3. Generations
4. Coming Home
5. My Yellow Rose
6. Song of Canada
7. Aran Girl
8. Angel for a Moment
9. Amazon
10. Singing the Spirit Home
11. Medjugorie
12. I Didn’t Get a Chance
13. My Rose
14. Cyclone from the West

We nurture love when we recall tender moments shared; such moments of wonder tug at our heart, urging us to create new memories of love.

Gifted singer/songwriter Danny O’Flaherty’s Gaelic soul soars on every passionate note in this tribute to loves lost, loves found, and loves fondly remembered.

Track List

1. Gift of Love
2. Blushing Bride
3. Annie Laurie
4. Dear Sarah
5. Carrickfergus
6. Remember
7. Rainbow Flight
8. Peggy Gordon
9. Lakes of Ponchartrain
10. Lady from Bendigo
11. Missy
12. Will You Go, Lassie Go

1.  Old Friends (Will Never Fade Away)
2. Inish Bofin
3. Highways to Hope
4. Listen to the Wind
5. Spinning Wheel
6. Patsy Keane
7. Valley of the Unicorns
8. Beware of the Banshee Clown
9. Siochain San Domhain
10. Under Ancient Trees
11. Journey Through Time
12. Talkin’ to Yourself
13. Christmas Prayer
14. Angels in Twilight
15. Children of War