New album - The Morning Mist The Morning Mist is the new album from legendary and master accordion player Joe Burke with piano accompaniment from Charlie Lennon.

Read more, and hear audio samples from this album, how to order it and learn more about Joe's other recordings.

Picture Gallery Joe's picture gallery, with over a hundred pictures, covers nearly half a century of Irish traditional music history. The pictures are all accompanied by Joe's own comments and remarks.

The Instrument

From Mat Mooney's book of poetry "Droving"
 
Joe Burke's accordion,
Yet lying in it's box beside us
Electrifies our senses in waiting!
When thrown open
By the mighty master
And stretched to it's first few notes
Before the frenzy,
Its cover of travel stained wood is forgotten.
Like the birth of a butterfly,
Music glides free
From the caterpillar of one day into another,
Until from bellow proud eyes
And beard of silver sheen,
Looking into the pool of our lives,
He grows lets, tails and heads
To frogs who leap about
Within their lives circle,
Jumping clear into clean air
To live a new life-
Born for the interpretation of the dance
That dormant lies basely in our brain.
All becoming one mind to music,
Drawing it in fresh
Till it touches it's home
In the heart of whoever we are -
Till he himself becomes the instrument in the session.
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