Watch Cara Dillon performing live in Belfast at the Grand Opera House and find out about her performance at this year’s Celtic Connections.
The performance is from her DVD: Live At the Grand Opera House
Translation:
Rise up, my love, if you’re still in bed lying
Open the door that I might come and recline
By my side I’ve a bottle that I’ve brought for your mother
And I hope she’ll allow it that you shall be mineWhen I rise in the morning and look o’er the way
And I look at the place where I’ll spend the long day
The tears fall in streams down my two cheeks like rain
And many’s the time that I sigh for that maidIn the thick wooded glen I live there in loneliness
From Sunday to Sunday spending time on my own
The coming and going I watch o’er the road-way
And nothing in this wide world will lift up my heartIsn’t it great for the birds that rise up every morning
And roost with each other on the same bush or spray
But that’s not how it is for both me and my true-love
For it’s far from each other that we rise every day
Hill of Thieves
Celtic Connections 2012
Following the sellout success of A Scottish Songbook at Celtic Connections 2010, this year it’s Ireland’s turn. A glittering array of artists perform a sumptuous set of classic and lesser-known songs, across diverse genres, with origins in Irish tradition. The cast includes two veteran colossi of Irish folk, singer and uilleann piper Finbar Furey, and singer/accordionist Séamus Begley, the latter joined by his daughter Méabh. Cara Dillon and Luka Bloom will each cast their distinctive but equally compelling spell, and Eleanor McEvoy, who penned the title track on the landmark 1992 album A Woman’s Heart, brings her eloquent folk-pop sensibility to the mix. Dick Gaughan – being half-Irish – represents the long, close kinship between Ireland and Scotland, while Irish-American supergroup Solas, in the role of house band, feature as ambassadors for the wider diaspora and extend their line-up to include Natalie Haas (cello) and Dirk Powell (banjo) also showing their Irish roots.