Gold Star Releases of 2010

Every year we each make a list of our gold star albums: our favourite releases from the previous year. These are our picks for the essential albums of 2010, and would enhance any traditional music lover's collection.

See also: last year, next year and gold star releases from other years.

Colin's Gold Star
Releases for 2010
ArtistAlbumLabel
CaraLong Distance LoveArtes
Chrissy CrowleyThe DepartureSelf
The Demon BarbersCaptain WardSelf
Finest KindFor Honour and for GainFallen Angle
Mairearad Green
Anna Massie
Mairearad & AnnaSelf
Fay HieldLooking GlassCompass
The Imagined VillageEmpire and LoveECC
Nicholas Pellerin
et les Grands Hurleurs
Nicholas Pellerin
et les Grands Hurleurs
Tempête
Brian PickellFriday Night in TownSelf
TéadaMusic & MemoryCompass
Urban Folk QuartetUrban Folk QuartetSelf

Also outstanding:

⋅ Casey/Doyle (Exiles return)

⋅ Green (Dear Irish boy)

⋅ Hut People (Home is where the hut is)

⋅ McGoldrick (Aurora)

⋅ McSherry (Soma)

⋅ Old Blind Dogs (Wherever yet may be)

 
Gordon's Gold Star
Releases for 2010
ArtistAlbumLabel
Tony Barrand
Keith Murphy
On the banks of ColdbrookSelf
BellowheadHedonismNavigator
Eliza Carthy
Norma Waterson
GiftTopic
DaimhDiversionsGreentrax
The Demon BarbersCaptain WardSelf
Tim EriksenSoul of the January HillsAppleseed
Finest KindFor Honour and for GainFallen Angle
Fay HieldLooking GlassCompass
Jeanna Leslie
Siobhan Miller
Shadows TallGreentrax
The OnceThe OnceBorealis

Also outstanding:

⋅ Byrne (Ballads)

⋅ Casey/Doyle (Exiles return)

⋅ King (Panic Grass & Fever Few)

⋅ McKennitt (The wind that shakes the barley)

⋅ West (Sark o' Snaw)

⋅ Imagined Village (Empire & Love)

⋅ Lúnasa (Lá Nua)

⋅ McGoldrick (Aurora)

⋅ MacMillan (Tyro)

⋅ O'Kane (Summer Hill)

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