Fire Draw Near

Episode LXVI concentrates on iterations of the traditional within a modern context. At some times it is a soft embrace, at others a collision. There are songs and tunes from many parts of the world. It is a journey. Don't be scared.

Caitlin Finley and Will Woodson – The Plains of Boyle - Lawson's
Doireann Glackin & Sarah Flynn – Mrs Galvin's Hornpipe - Grace's Favourite
Barren – Sonny's Mazurka
Aoife Nic Diarmada – Liam Ó Raghallaigh
Teppana Jänis & Arja Kastinen – Vanha Valssi
Kapela Kotra – Zialony Haj - Зялёны Гай
Jim Ghedi – The Hungry Child
Sam Grassie – Return to Fingal
Macdara Yeates – De May Bush
The Standing Stones featuring Iona Zajac and Daragh Lynch – Twa Sisters
Nuovo Canzoniere Partigiano – The Partisan
Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson – Willie Taylor's March - The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall

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This episode looks at the ballad The Dark Eyed Sailor aka Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor

Tracklist

Phil Tanner – Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor
Fred Jordan – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Walter Pardon – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Lou Killen – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Steeleye Span – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Kate Doherty (Denery) – Dark Eyed Sailor
Christy Moore – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Luke Kelly – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Michael Barden – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Andrew King and Brown Sierra – The Dark Eyed Sailor
The Norman Luboff Choir – The Dark Eyed Sailor

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Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes.

Tracklist

Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla Butterfly / Tranquility in Tureencahill
Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely - The Price of the Pig
Vidd – Stor sak om världen hatar mig
Sarah Makem – I Courted a Wee Girl
Cormac Cannon, Lamond Gillespie and John Blake – Bunker Hill / The Hare's Paw
Nellie Weldon – My Love is a Well
Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn – The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí
Jimmy Crowley – Johnny Jump Up
Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further Into The Fire / Juliann Johnson
Patrick Boyle – Clasped To The Pig
Topette – Bal Limousines - A Bastien / Les Maries
Nimf – Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies

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This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X

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Tracklist

Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway
Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom
Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song
Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung
Folk Och Rackare – Bältet
Emma Capponi – Small Birds Whistle
Dorothy Carter – The King of Glory
The Johnsons – The Dublin Jack Of All Trades
Mick Moloney – McNally's Row Of Flats
Mick Moloney & Joe McKenna – Sean Reid's Favourite / Toss the Feathers
Donal Finn – The Ballad of Pat the Chief
Clod – Scrumping and Rumping
Mardi Gras Indians – Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band
The Trojans – Gaelic Ska
Jimmy O’Brien Moran – All The Way To Galway / Jenny Put The Kettle On
Cití Seáin Ní Chuinneagáin – Bá Phroclaise
Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan – Báthadh Bhroclaise / Sliabh Mis / Whiskey-O-Roudelum-Row
Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along The Road

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FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition.

Tracklist

NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad
Wootten Family – Ortonville
Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation
Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)
Northampton Harmony – Despair
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?
Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte
Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena
The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim
Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim
Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson
The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace
Landless – Doomsday
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone

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