The folk thread

Kevin Parrott took over when Brian Burke dropped out of his partnership with Michael Coleman.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22046455

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Listened to this yesterday following reading an article in the Times.

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And? Any good?

Well - the voice was a surprise and the tunes are good.

Thanks for posting Jacob Alon, the guitar playing is excellent and their vulnerability reminds me of Nick Drake. Jacob is being played by Nick Grimshaw and perhaps some young people might be drawn into folk.

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The Times’ article also mentioned Drake.
I need to listen again as I fell asleep half way thru’ last night.

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Lavinia Blackwall, The Making new out. Fabulous voice.

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Really enjoying listening to Dreamers’s Dawn, the new Sam Kelly album released today on Proper Records.

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Found in a Field is a Birmingham and Worcestershire band here singing the shanty Whoop Jamboree. I encountered them at a house party last night.

Here’s a session from Co. Clare i.m. of a colleague and friend from Clare.
Friel’s Pub / Lynch’s, Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare : Clare musicians, Tola Custy (fiddle), Joan Hanrahan (fiddle) & the late Dympna O’Sullivan (concertina) playing a set of Jigs ; Banks of Lough Gowna (0:00), Eddie Kelly’s (1:18) & Junior Crehan’s (2:31), in a recording made for the Geantraí music series on TG4 in 2006.

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