NEW YEAR, NEW MUSIC, NEW VIDEO FOR “BETWEEN THE WARS”

Hi! I hope you’re keeping well and hanging in there. February 2021 is hopefully seeing a few days of sun here at Kilmichael after so many days and nights of icy wind and rain blowing in off the sea. Dougal and I have been doing our thing and I’ve been working on plenty of new […]

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Maa Bonny Lad

A wee Northumbrian maritime folk song, first published in ‘North Countrie Ballads, Songs and Pipe-Tunes’ in 1922. I found it through the incredible singing of Anne Briggs; Rachel Unthank also did a gorgeous version. Video and audio were recorded ‘on location’ in the ruins of the former lifeboat station at Kilmichael Point on the Wexford […]

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