Shake your shamrocks

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Shake Your Shamrocks
Shake Your Shamrocks cover
Studio album by Various Artists
Released 1995 (New Zealand)
Genre Folk
Label Independent
Various Artists chronology


Shake Your Shamrocks is a compilation CD released by various local Irish traditional and folk artists from the Auckland, New Zealand area. The CD was sponsored by Guinness. It was organised mainly by members of one of the bands featured on the disc, Twisty Willow, with proceeds going to blind funds and guide dog funds. The CD contains 18 tracks. All 5000 copies of the original release were sold through pubs and liquor outlets.

[edit] Featured Artists

  1. Cuchulainn
  2. The Dogs Bollix
  3. The Gabriel Hounds
  4. Irish Heartbeat
  5. The Michael O'Reilly Band
  6. Roison Dubh
  7. Twisty Willow

[edit] Track listing

  1. Dirty Old Town - Irish Heartbeat
  2. The Diamond - The Michael O'Reilly Band
  3. Sean South From Garryowen - Roison Dubh
  4. Farewell to Belfast - Twisty Willow
  5. Arthur McBride - The Dogs Bollix
  6. A Woman's Heart - Irish Heartbeat
  7. Polkas: The Rose Tree/Bog Down In The Valley/Rakes of Mallow - Roison Dubh
  8. As I Roved Out - The Gabriel Hounds
  9. The Drunken Sailor - The Dogs Bollix
  10. Take Her In Your Arms - Twisty Willow
  11. Siege of Ennis/Sickbed of Cuchulainn - Cuchulainn
  12. The Mero - Irish Heartbeat
  13. Spancil Hill - The Michael O'Reilly Band
  14. Jigs: The Kesh/Haymakers/Blarney Pilgrim - Twisty Willow
  15. Black is the Colour - Roison Dubh
  16. Maggie May - The Dogs Bollix
  17. Tell Me Ma/Black Velvet Band/Wild Rover/Drowsy Maggie Reel - Twisty Willow
  18. Raglan Road - Cuchulainn