This live album was recorded for German radio. It is a concert from 1979. Planxty plays a very traditional form of Celtic music. That means this lands in the neighborhood of folk and world music. They do a number of instrumental pieces along with plenty that have vocals. If you like Irish music (with some other worlds sounds imported at times) you will want to give this one a try. It's a lot of fun.

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Starting with the pipes, this works out to a killer instrumental piece. The Celtic textures dance around and weave some great themes as they work through the various parts of this instrumental medley.

Irish folk music is the order of business here. I love the interplay between the different voices. The music isn't as intricate as that of the album's opener, but the song is no less effective.

Traditional Irish instrumentation dances over the top of a percussive element to drive this instrumental number forward at the start. The pipes take over from there. The melody works out with more of an ensemble arrangement as they continue.