The Foxrock Folk Club was a musical and social
phenomenon that ran from 1969 to 1973 in the Parish Hall in Cornelscourt, near
Foxrock. Organised and run by local teenagers, during its short life the club presented
many of the biggest names in Irish traditional and folk music, jazz and blues, poetry
and the arts. However, by a fortunate twist of fate many of the sessions at the
club were recorded by a teenage schoolboy with a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The
tapes brilliantly captured the spirit of the times, which included a huge burst
of creative energy among Irish musicians, creating a unique collection of live
recordings. For the first time a selection of these recordings are now being
made available on CD. They include:
· Rare, and in
some cases, previously unreleased recordings by traditional and folk musicians
like Luke Kelly, Andy Irvine, Ronnie Drew, Al O'Donnell, Sonny Condell and Dónal Lunny
·
Live recordings
of legendary Dublin blues artists like Red Peters, Brian Fry, Johnny
Norris and
the acoustic band, the Dirty Dozens
·
Tracks by one
of Ireland's finest traditional and mainstream jazz bands, the Butler Fox Jazz
Band, led by Rock Fox and Phil Butler
·
The unique
Irish progressive group, Supply Demand and Curve
·
And highly
popular musicians and groups like We 4, Danny Doyle and The Gingermen.
To be released in November 2015 on Cornelscourt Records
(CR 001)
Release date and more information available soon.
