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Posted on May 15, 2020May 17, 2021 by unaniharpist

Celtic Puns

Celtic music is a rich landscape, full of Hills and Vallelys. Here’s a selection of puns to date. (I’ve kept it brief, lest you think I’m making a mountain out of a Noel Hill.)

BAND NAMES

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers

Tradivarious

ALBUM TITLES

A Reel Piece of Work

A Sound Skin

Affairs Of The Harp

All You Need is Láimh

At My Grandfather’s Knee and Other Such Joints

Back To The (Seventeen) Eighties

Between the Jigs and the Reels

Changing Time

Drumshanbows

Green Grass, Blue Grass

Heirs & Graces

In Am Trátha (Well–Timed)

Louth Mouths From Drogheda

Morning Rory (Michael McGoldrick’s son Rory was born when the popular Oasis album was released)

Pleckin’ About

Pluckin’ Mad

Reed Only

The Great Danes

Timing is Everything

Trí Tones

Triple Harp Bypass

Wind & Reeds

Wonderwaltz

TUNES

Heir Conditioning Anne-Marie O’Farrell composed this tune while pregnant)

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Hibernian Rhapsody

How the West Was Won

Welcome to the Hotel Connemara

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