For Where Old Ghosts Meet, The Haar bring fresh insights and breathe new life into some of the most iconic songs in the Irish traditional repertoire. A stunning multi-layered, nuanced album that reveals more with each play.
Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return in April with their highly anticipated second album Where Old Ghosts Meet. Watch their latest video for album single Wild Rover, due for release on St Patrick’s Day.
The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return with a new single for the traditional song ‘The parting Glass’. An unforgettable moving moment.
We chat to the Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar about their wonderful new album of traditional Irish songs set to improvised music. Cue major and minor key switching, intuition and creative satisfaction.
Featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, watch The Haar’s video for Anachie Gordon, a new track that was recorded, filmed, mixed, and made remotely, in lockdown.
We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting, The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, will take you on a journey and have you appreciating the purest of life’s pleasures. Wonderful stuff.
With ‘Battlefield Dance Floor’, Show of Hands have put together one of the most cohesive, diverse and persuasive sets of their entire career and one of the most consistently adventurous collections in their catalogue.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes with Molly Donnery – a video capturing their first notes together as a trio – a musical meeting. The results are beautiful – an album will follow.
Throughout ‘Natural Selection’, it’s Dodo Street’s absolute mastery of the instruments that shines through. While the virtuosity on display is breath-taking, it is the way that musical expertise is combined with a streak of anarchic fun that makes the album so entertaining.
Stone Soup is currently one of our Featured Albums of the Month, Johnny caught up with Cormac Byrne and Adam Summerhayes in Ibiza at Costa Del Folk to explore their thinking, first when making this album of totally improvised music and then performing parts of it live.
I have believed for a long time that there is magic contained in forms of improvised music that cannot be found in others and this album by Cormac Byrne and Adam Summerhayes certainly backs that theory. Their Stone Soup project is the best thing I have heard so far this year.
Show of Hands head out on tour this week accompanied by Irish bodhrán player Cormac Byrne. Watch them performing in a new rehearsal video…supporting them will be Alden Patterson and Dashwood.
