The Manchester based folk music foursome 4Square are out on the road right now (dates below). It is from their latest album Hearth and Home that we have chosen our Song of the Day. Listen to Lily Of Barbary below.
The song was originally written by Pete Scrowther and later made popular by PJ Wright of Little Johnny England (Tournament of Shadows 2009). It tells the story of an English man who is enslaved by Barbary corsairs and sold in Algiers, but is freed when his master dies. He then becomes a merchant and buys the freedom of another English slave girl.
Tour Dates
May
13 – Dartford Folk Club, Dartford Working Men’s Club
15 – The Queen’s Head, Belper (double bill with David Gibb & Elly Lucas)
16 – The Met, Bury (double bill with David Gibb & Elly Lucas)
17 – Private Concert, Banks Lane School, Stockport
22 – The Globe, Glossop,
23 – Dilwyn Cedar Hall, Herefordshire
26 – The Green Note, Camden
28 – House Concert
29 – Mr Wolfs, Bristol
June
07 – London FolkFest
July
04-07 – Sunfest
26-27 – Warwick Folk Festival
August
7-11 – Broadstairs Folk Week
22-24 – Purbeck Folk Festival
September
14/9 BAA
The Band are:
NICOLA LYONS: Fiddle, Vocals, Clog Dancing
JIM MOLYNEUX: Piano, Accordion, Vocals
MICHAEL GIVERIN: Mandolin, Guitar
DAN DAY: Percussion, Vocals