We recently premiered a video for The Parting Glass (watch it here) taken from The Lockdown, the new single from BBC Folk Award winner and RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards nominee, Daoirí Farrell. As explained then, after setting up a corner of his kitchen as a makeshift stage he began streaming The Corner Sessions. These weekly sessions proved immensely popular as requests came in thick and fast during the shows with Daoirí’s girlfriend Catriona fielding questions and passing requests between songs.
On the back of those sessions, The Lockdown will be released on 26 June and can be pre-ordered from today, links for which are below. As previously featured, it includes ‘The Parting Glass’ in honour of all of those who have lost their lives to Covid-19, combined with a recording of ‘When the Breakers Go Back On Full Time’, previously recorded by Frank Harte and Dónal Lunny, which, while recounting the longing of striker for better days, parallels the lockdown experience of workers during the current pandemic.
Here he is performing the song live at The Bog of Allen, Co. Kildare, Ireland…after stacking some turf of course.
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