Our Song of the Day comes from an Irish duo that I never tire of hearing – Brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn, better known as Ye Vagabonds. Here they are performing Tuirse Mo Chroí during Sidmouth Folk Week this year where they opened for Kathryn Tickell.
“There appears to be something of a lineage from Irish poetry, in particular perhaps the ruminations of Yeats and James Joyce, but there also seem to be resonances of Dylan Thomas. Deceptively, a depth of emotion can be hidden beneath imagery that’s less personal or precise…Pomegranate would seem to be an honest if enigmatic study in obsession and possession.” David Kidman (review of Ye Vagabonds)
Ye Vagabonds also featured on our latest Folk Show alongside Dick Gaughan, Jean Redpath, Fara, Gilmore & Roberts, Karine Polwart, Siobhan Miller, Talisk, The Furrow Collective, The Willows, The Trials of Cato, Daoirí Farrell and more.