River Lea is a record label run by Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee of Rough Trade along with music journalist Tim Chipping. We chat with Tim about how the label came to be which features Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Brìghde Chaimbeul, all of whom have picked up BBC Folk Award nominations this year.
David Weir chats to Lisa O’Neill backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival about Music Awards (she’s been nominated for four BBC Folk Awards), Nick Cave, Margaret Barry, songwriting and the distractions of technology and dreaming.
Celebrating contemporary female talent, this year’s Liverpool Irish Festival will be running a special event called Visible Women featuring Lisa O’Neill, Maz O’Connor and Laura Duff.
The acclaimed singer and flautist Rioghnach Connolly is to appear in She Moved Through The Fair: The Legend Of Margaret Barry at Kings Place, London on Saturday, March 16.
Watch Come On Up To The House (The Movie) featuring Glen Hansard (The Frames), Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Bitch Falcon, a number of the Begley family and more.
Having shared our Top 100 Albums of 2018, it’s time for a few select Top 10 albums of the year from some of our Feature writers. Neil McFadyen shares his Top 10 albums that have made the strongest impact on him in the last year.
Part One of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Brigid Mae Power, Anna & Elizabeth, Aidan O’Rourke, Eamon O’Leary, Buck Curran, Cath & Phil Tyler, Dom Flemons, Kitty Macfarlane, Mike Vass, Toby Hay, Duncan Chisholm and more.
As she embarked on a trip to New Zealand for the inaugural New Zealand Irish Fest this month, Lisa O’Neill took time to talk to Folk Radio about her new album, the background, the influences behind it, and the artists that joined her on the journey.
Lisa O’Neill’s ‘Heard a Long Gone Song’ is easily one of the greatest surprises I’ve enjoyed for some time; an exceptional album that will make the trad music scene stand up and take notice; if it doesn’t, there’s something far wrong with the trad music scene.
While on tour, Dublin-based singer Lisa O’Neill visited the childhood home of John Lennon in Liverpool. While there, Lisa, accompanied by two supporting musicians, performed the popular traditional ballad Leaving of Liverpool which is also our Song of the Day.
Lisa O’Neill announces ‘Heard A Long Gone Song’, her first album for the new Rough Trade imprint River Lea. It’s a record that is personally political, uniquely beautiful, heartfelt and witty. And perhaps as timeless as the passed down songs Lisa sings as if they were hers.
Watch the brilliant video for TG4’s Bosca Ceoil, a brand new Irish music series. This promises to be a great show, presented by Pauline Scanlon feat. trad and contemporary music.
We catch James Yorkston’s Album launch for The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society at the Old Queens Head with support from the wonderful Irish singer/songwriter Lisa O’Neill.
Cavan folk singer Lisa O’Neill is to release a new album ‘Same Cloth or Not’ in October followed by a tour Glen Hansard and with James Yorkston in November.
The Rambling Irishman Kevin Doherty takes time out from Four Men And A Dog to deliver ‘Seeing Things’, a literate solo work aimed at both head and heart and distinguished by fine string arrangements.
