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fave it Modern Folk | Celtic
18 tracks | 61 minutes
Released Jul 2006
on Spring Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 Back on The Road Again lyrics FREE 03:27 Back on The Road Again lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 Back on The Road Again
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:30 Intro to (3) lyrics BUY MP3 01:30 Intro to (3) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:30 Intro to (3)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 Back on the Diet on Monday lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 Back on the Diet on Monday lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 Back on the Diet on Monday
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 How Will I Ever be Simple Again lyrics BUY MP3 03:02 How Will I Ever be Simple Again lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:02 How Will I Ever be Simple Again
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:41 Spailpín's Lament/Japanese Hornpipe lyrics BUY MP3 05:41 Spailpín's Lament/Japanese Hornpipe lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:41 Spailpín's Lament/Japanese Hornpipe
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:25 Intro to (7) lyrics BUY MP3 02:25 Intro to (7) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:25 Intro to (7)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:38 The March ditch lyrics BUY MP3 03:38 The March ditch lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:38 The March ditch
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:11 Down by the Laganside lyrics BUY MP3 03:11 Down by the Laganside lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:11 Down by the Laganside
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:03 Intro to (10) lyrics BUY MP3 02:03 Intro to (10) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:03 Intro to (10)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:37 Green Eyes lyrics BUY MP3 04:37 Green Eyes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:37 Green Eyes
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:09 Sadako lyrics BUY MP3 05:09 Sadako lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:09 Sadako
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:23 Cats and Dog (story) lyrics BUY MP3 03:23 Cats and Dog (story) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:23 Cats and Dog (story)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:18 Sláinte Mhaith lyrics BUY MP3 02:18 Sláinte Mhaith lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:18 Sláinte Mhaith
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:21 Buskers lyrics BUY MP3 04:21 Buskers lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:21 Buskers
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:12 Oro my Johnny lyrics BUY MP3 02:12 Oro my Johnny lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:12 Oro my Johnny
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 My Mother won't Let me Marry (Four Jigs) lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 My Mother won't Let me Marry (Four Jigs) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 My Mother won't Let me Marry (Four Jigs)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:04 Daughters & Sons lyrics BUY MP3 04:04 Daughters & Sons lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:04 Daughters & Sons
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 Goethe's Song lyrics BUY MP3 03:44 Goethe's Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:44 Goethe's Song
Irish family of singer-songwriters with their unique blend of traditional and contemporary Celtic songs and music, recorded "Live" in Germany
Bio / Background
Born, bred and based in County Down, Ireland, we have been singing and playing music for as long as we can remember.
We grew up on a small farm in the townland of Ryan, near the village of Mayobridge, a few miles from the town of Newry. Our parents, Mick and Bridie, both came from families of singers, musicians and storytellers and encouraged a love of Irish culture and tradition in their seven children.
Our house on the Ryan Road was a "ceili house" - a focal point - and neighbours from nearby farms as well as musical wanderers from much further afield often gathered around our fireside for long winter evenings of song, music, "craic" and merriment.
From small beginnings in local halls and pubs, our musical career took a sudden upturn when we won a Folk Group contest in Dublin's "Old Shieling Hotel" in Raheny. As a result, we were invited to play for three weeks in New York in early 1971.
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Although further trips to USA and Canada followed, including a St Patrick's Day concert appearance in Carnegie Hall - and regular "solo missions" - we have tended to concentrate our musical attentions as a band on this side of the Atlantic - in Europe generally and Germany particularly, as well as Ireland and UK..... but we often talk of crossing the broad Atlantic again ...
Our repertoire largely consists of our own compositions, together with some of our favourites from the bottomless well of the Irish song and music tradition.
We often perform and record as solo artists, but thirty five years on the road have not dulled our appetite for getting together for tours, festivals and occasional trips to the recording studio - in fact, quite the reverse! - and we have every intention of carrying on carrying on!
Hopefully we'll meet you one of these days, somewhere along the road .....
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