“Pastures of Plenty” by Solas
This song transports me to lazy Saturdays cleaning the kitchen with my dad. We’d always blare music, more often than not Irish music, so we could boogie while we buffed. When “Pastures of Plenty” came on, my dad — a founding member of Trinity Irish Dance — taught me how to reel across the kitchen floor, Swiffer in hand. So whenever I hear the beat of the bodhran, I think of Eamonn yelling “one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, up two three, back two three. Around the house and mind the dresser!”
