Taken from her powerful new album ‘The Unquiet’, due for release April 8th 2022, Irish singer Pauline Scanlon has today, on International Women’s Day, released her second album single – Felton Lonnin.
In the same way that music crosses borders, some voices have a universality to them that are able to carry human emotion and sentiment of a song in the same way. West Kerry native Pauline Scanlon is a song carrier, and with a voice once described by the Irish Times as “a superb mix of china cup fragility and steely strength“, it’s her strength that shines brightest here.
Speaking of the song, Pauline says:
“My forthcoming album ‘The Unquiet’ is about an era of women whose lives and stories I wanted to sing about through the medium of traditional song. Felton Lonnin is a Northumbrian ballad about a missing child. I sing this song to honour the women and children who endured church and state systems of incarceration and separation in laundries, the mother and baby homes, county homes, residential institutions under systems of oppression, concealment, shame, abuse, and unspeakable cruelty.
I am deeply thankful to have once again collaborated with the extraordinary actor and dancer Siobhán Manson on the visual for this piece, with a video filmed, edited and directed by Alan Doherty. The lush, opulent harmony vocals on this track are by Nicola Joyce. Chris Pemberton played keys and synths, Graham Kearns played guitar, and John Reynolds played drums and produced the song.”
As a founding member of FairPlé, the role of women in the arts is central to her creative path and something she is very vocal about and dedicated to. Her new album, The Unquiet, to be released 8th April 2022, is a piece of art possessed of an old soul, but thoroughly modern and of its time.
Pre-Order The Unquiet: https://paulinescanlon.bandcamp.com/album/the-unquiet
LIVE DATES:
April
Friday 8th: Black Gate Galway
Saturday 9th: Duncairn Belfast
Thurs 14th: Pepper Canister Dublin
May
19th: Royal Theatre CastleBar
21st: INEC Killarney
Tickets available from http://www.paulinescanlon.net/