Clare Sands is joined by Brian Finnegan of FLOOK on her anthemic new single Dealán Dé, an ancient word from County Donegal meaning both butterfly and Northern lights – watch the accompanying video directed and shot by visual artists and twin sisters Liadain and Kasia Kaminska.
Brian Finnegan’s ‘Hunger of the Skin’ is a beautiful collaborative creation, featuring top-class musicians and a rich blend of music and poetry…an album developed in the wee small hours of lockdown nights, we can all now enjoy the fruits of that journey.
Watch the video for Brian Finnegan’s excellent new single Two Trees / Tony, a superb tribute to a remarkable man who’s also Brian’s neighbour. There’s more to this fella than meets the eye.
The amazingly talented Brian Finnegan releases his new solo album ‘Hunger of the Skin’ on March 12th – he has assembled an incredible band to support him and an equally long list of impressive guests.
Written in the first few weeks of March 2020 against the backdrop of chaos and confusion, Flow, In The Year Of Wu Wei is the seminal new single from Brian Finnegan.
Our Tune of the Day comes from The Finnegan McSherry Project, recorded live at this year’s Fleadh. Featuring John McSherry and Brian Finnegan who are joined by their good friends Donal O’Connor, Niall Murphy, Sean Og Graham and John Joe Kelly.
Kathleen MacInnes / Dermot Byrne / Brian Finnegan / Mike Vass joined forces for Celtic Connections to create a live set that showcased the very best in traditional and contemporary folk from both Scotland and Ireland – a rare musical treat.
Read our Live Review of The Shee’s launch of their Continuum Project at Celtic Connections also featuring Karine Polwart, Chris Wood, Andy Cutting, Kathryn Tickell and Martin Simpson.
In our ongoing ‘Guest Feature’ The Shee tell us all about their tenth anniversary Continuum project and their nominated collaborators. For their latest post Lillias, using her own comic artwork, tells us about her choice – Brian Finnegan.
To mark their ten-year milestone The Shee announce new collaborative project ‘Continuum’ featuring a host of well known folk composers. We will be hearing from each band member over the next six weeks in a special Folk Radio UK feature.
The band Kan which includes members Aidan O’Rourke and Brian Finnegan have sadly announced they are to stop playing for the forseeable future. We have a special tune of the day from them.
Northern Lights brings together six world-class musicians from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Scandinavia including Brian Finnegan, Niall Vallely, Ailie Robertson, Donald Grant & more.
