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Feb 9, 2007 · Whelan flirts with the edge in that he challenges the limit and pushes the boundaries. He gets help from many incredible musicians, including Bernadette Peters, Pat Kilbride, Connie Dover, and Oscar Lopez just to name a few.
Additionally, Peters has recorded songs on other albums, such as "Dublin Lady" on John Whelan's Flirting with the Edge (Narada, 1998). On the Mandy Patinkin Dress Casual 1990 album, Patinkin and Peters recorded the songs from Stephen Sondheim's 1966 television play, Evening Primrose .
Bernadette Peters’ beautiful, spare version of “Dublin Lady” and Connie Dover’s tearjerker “Red is the Rose” are two special vocal cameos. With Ugandan kalimba player Samite Mulondo and guitarist Oscar Lopez, Whelan and friends tour the world and its music with a distinctly Celtic edge.
Flirting With The Edge. John Whelan. 15 SONGS • 58 MINUTES • JAN 01 1998. Purchase Options. 1. Reels: January's Journey/DD's Car (Medley) [feat. SAMITE MULONDO & Oscar López & Pat Kilbride & Seamus Egan & Jerry O'Sullivan & Randy Crafton & John Skelton & Denny McDermott] John Whelan feat.
Ugandan musician Samite hypnotically rolls the rhythm with his kalimba (finger piano) playing while the Spanish guitar playing of Oscar Lopez adds fuel to the Celtic fire. Connie Dover sings “Red Is The Rose” – beautiful – and almost unexpectedly, the divine Bernadette Peters performs a heart-wrenching version of “Dublin Lady.”
Both ardent followers of Peters’ career and admirers of her craft, we asked Gans and McPhee to, separately, put together their definitive list of the seven Bernadette Peters songs they could...
Flirting with the Edge starts with an energetic and toe-tapping romp, a medley of reels "January's Journey" and "DD's Car." From there, we move to more contemporary scores, such as "The Heather in the Wind," and a melody of polkas: "Flirting with the Edge," "Rockaway Beach" and "Emmett's Revenge."
