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    Brenda Castles
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    Compositions by Brenda Castles

    Saothar Composer February 2024

    Brenda Castles is a concertina player from County Meath and the compositions she choose for Saothar are from her suite ‘The Plight of the Bumble Bee’.  These tunes were written to highlight the diminishing bee population in Ireland and are the soundtrack to a film that documents the importance of the honeybee to our ecosystem, and examines their role in Irish folklore, religion and Brehon law.

    Plight of the Bumble Bee Logo

    For more information see Beewise.ie 

    Compositions

    1. Planxty Gorman [comp. Brenda Castles]
    2. Telling the bees [comp. Brenda Castles], jig
    3. The piping queen [comp. Brenda Castles], hornpipe
    4. The waggle dance [comp. Brenda Castles], polka
    5. The bee wise reel [comp. Brenda Castles]
    6. St Gobnait’s well [comp. Brenda Castles], reel

    Photograph by Joey Gavin, May 2023

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    Brenda Castles' Compositions

    1. Planxty Gorman [comp. Brenda Castles]
    2. Telling the bees [comp. Brenda Castles], jig
    3. The piping queen [comp. Brenda Castles], hornpipe
    4. The waggle dance [comp. Brenda Castles], polka
    5. The bee wise reel [comp. Brenda Castles]
    6. St Gobnait’s well [comp. Brenda Castles], reel

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