Excellent new album from Sean Keane
It was shortly after I started presenting the folk show - some time way back in the mists of antikitty - that I got a phone call inviting me over to
The launch was in the Roisin Dubh in
I played his version of the Sting song 'Fields of Gold' on my programme last Wednesday (I still think it ranks up there with Eva Cassidy's version as a real classic) and by serendipity a new CD from Sean arrived a few days ago called 'The Irish Scattering'. It's a recording of a live concert performed in Galway celebrating, not just the terrible following the potato famine of the mid 19th century, but the other journeys the Irish have made; the wandering scholar monks who kept learning alive during the Dark Ages and the Irish soldiers like the Enniskillen Dragoons who left Ireland to fight in the bloody European wars.
The CD is a great record of what sounds like a brilliant show - , and are just three of twenty or so singers and musicians who worked on the production. I hope it tours over here sometime - if it does I will of course let you know.
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