Derek Bell is the harpist for The Chieftains, Ireland's best-known interpreters of traditional Celtic music. Classically trained, Bell joined the group in 1972 after a distinguished career as a harpist the Northern Ireland BBC Orchestra, and as a professor harp and Irish harps at the Belfast Academy of Music. Our featured selection is a hauntingly beautiful piece with a wonderful theme - "To humankind comes the promise of a new dawn: light for all those who would face the sunrise." You can hear the selected track with your Real Audio player.

1. Celtic Morning - 4:26 2. New Dawn - 4:02 3. The Hill Tat Was Tara - 2:54 4. Dublin Town- 2:37 5. Playboy of the Western World - 2:29 6. Irish Lullaby - 3:10 7. Desdemona's Song - 5:57 8. Maurya Lament - 3:07 9. Mukunda - 5:24 10. Parade - 2:43 11. Memories of That Isle - 2:38 12. Ancient Memories - 2:52 13. Deirdre's Sorrows - 3:44 14. Mist - 3:50 15. Daughter of Aran - 2:25 16. Homeward bound - 2:11 17. Lift your Heart in Strength - 2:25 18. Woodland Devas - 6:48 19. Emerald Isle - 5:14

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