As mentioned this week, as we run down towards the New Year, I’m going to be sharing some of our most popular mixtapes from over the years. This early Mixtape from our Folk Show Mixtape series (from 2017) is one of the most popular. There are some great tracks in here, including a 1971 demo recording from Lal & Mike Waterson. There are also a large number of tracks from debut releases –
- Hannah Rarity’s debut EP Beginnings,
- Georgis Lewis’ The Bird Who Sings Freedom,
- concertina player and innovator Cormac Begley’s self-titled debut,
- Ye Vagabonds’ debut EP Rose & Briar,
- Jack Rutter’s forthcoming solo debut Hills,
- Aidan Connolly’s debut, Be Off,
- Molly Evan’s Deep Time and Narrow space is (a collection of original songs based on the traditional folklore work of Cheshire writer Alan Garner),
- Rosie Hood’s first full-length solo album The Beautiful and the Actual,
- Irish group Landless (Lily Power, Meabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinead Lynch) and their self-titled debut EP,
- From their 2013 self-titled album on Raelach Records, Ensemble Ériu, a septet led by Jack Talty and Neil O’Loghlen,
- And lastly, from Windrose, the debut album from The Routes Quartet featuring Rufus Huggan (cello), Emma Tomlinson (viola), Gràinne Brady and Tricia Mullan (fiddles). They have just released their follow-up Arche.
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Music Played
Georgia Lewis – The Unfortunate Lass
Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party – Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Cormac Begley – Reels – The Yellow Tinker / Ril Mhor Bhaile An Chalaidh
Ye Vagabonds – Barbara Ellen
Jack Rutter – Hey John Barleycorn
Hannah Rarity – Erin Go Bragh
Aidan Connolly – Reels: Paddy Cronin’s Own, As A Thoiseach, John Blessing’s
Dempsey Broughton – Resurrection Jack
John Smith – Coming Home
Lal & Mike Waterson – One Of Those Days (1971 Demo)
Molly Evans – Woe Is Me
Rosie Hood – Adrift, Adrift
Landless – Farewell to Fiunary
Calum Alex MacMillan – MoNighean Donn
Ensemble Ériu – Seachrán Sí
The Routes Quartet – Fenham