tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63981821611911676262024-03-13T13:33:35.991+00:00THE FOXROCK FOLK CLUB PROJECT"A Folk Club in Foxrock - surely that would be a contradiction in terms.." Luke KellyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-2807878390662351902016-05-18T15:52:00.000+01:002016-05-18T15:52:47.991+01:00fROOTS MAGAZINE REVIEW
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fRoots</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is the world's
leading magazine covering modern and traditional music with roots from around
the globe and it has a positive, if brief, review in it's June issue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141413; font-family: "BL Frutiger Black","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'<i>Various Artists</i></span><i><span style="color: #141413; font-family: "BLI Frutiger BlackItalic","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Live at Foxrock Folk
Club, The Parish Hall Tapes - 1970-72</span><span style="color: #141413; font-family: "R Frutiger Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Cornelscourt Records CR
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<span style="color: #141413; font-family: "R Frutiger Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Rare archive recordings from one of Ireland's few folk clubs, featuring
Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Al O'Donnell, assorted blues
luminaries, ragtime guitarists and even trad jazz....this double-CD is ....well worth
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-45114656905239076092016-04-26T14:53:00.000+01:002016-04-26T14:53:54.901+01:00NUMBER ONE IN NENAGH!Great to see in the figures gathered by Irish Music Magazine that the CD was the number one best-seller last month in McQuaid's Music Shop in Nenagh, Tipperary. Judging by it's web site, McQuaid's looks like a excellent music shop with an extensive range of musical instruments as well as CDs. Nice to know that such shops are thriving around the country.<br />
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In another sign of the fine musical tastes in Tipperary, Noel Fahy has also being playing tracks from the CD on his programme 'The Crooked Road' on Tipperary Midwest Radio.<br />
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Of course, Tipperary has a close link to the album anyway as the legendary blues singer, Red Peters, was born in Tipperary town and features on four tracks.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-51797030755524783142016-04-22T18:28:00.001+01:002016-04-22T18:28:58.749+01:00JOHNNY NORRIS - GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIREIt has been very interesting to follow the progress of the album on radio stations across the world - from Tipperary Mid West Radio to 2XXFM in Canberra, Australia and many points in between - and to hear what tracks are chosen by particular presenters. One of the aims of the album was to try and reflect the diversity of different musicians and types of music that were featured at the club so I'm very pleased that all 36 tracks from the CD have been played on a radio station at some point.<br />
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However it is also interesting to hear which recordings have attracted particular attention and to see that among the musicians one might expect to get a lot of plays, like Luke Kelly, Andy Irvine, Ronnie Drew, Al O'Donnell, etc, the solo guitar tracks of Johnny Norris have been getting a lot of air time.<br />
In particular, his <i>Ragtime Medley,</i> which is a combination of (at least) three ragtime tunes and ends with a blistering version of 'Bill Bailey', has clearly grabbed many listeners attention. On this track the speed and technical virtuosity of his playing is amazing.<br />
As far as I know, this piece and the other track with Johnny singing and playing 'All My Friends Are Gone' (another masterpiece) are the only available recordings of him playing solo.<br />
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He also appears on the album with the terrific acoustic blues band, Dirty Dozens, which included another great guitarist, Gerry Doyle, one of Ireland's greatest blues singers, Red Peters and the wonderful harmonica player, Shay Fogarty.<br />
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Along with other musicians like Brian Fry, Ed Deane and many more, the blues scene is Dublin in the 1960s and 70s undoubtedly included many highly talented artists (some still playing, I'm pleased to note).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-92217000828343777392016-04-11T22:14:00.000+01:002016-04-11T22:14:29.570+01:00HAVE CD WILL TRAVELThe 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' CD is continuing to spread the musical word around the globe. Recently copies have been sent to Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, Japan, Venezeula, the Irish Embassy in Buenos Aires and throughout Europe. Incidentally, it's also selling well in Foxrock!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-82674203302594684132016-03-28T18:16:00.000+01:002016-03-28T18:16:17.269+01:00RTE RADIO 'ARENA' PROGRAMME WITH JIM LOCKHARTThe folk club and the CD featured on RTE Radio 1 Arts programme 'Arena' on Thursday 24 March and it was a real pleasure to be interviewed by Jim Lockhart of Horslips fame. The band actually played Foxrock on 6 Feb 1972 so Jim had a direct link with the club. The other special thing about the interview was that Eileen Heron, the producer, had gone to considerable trouble to arrange a link, via telephone, with Kevin McCann in Hawaii, as she was fascinated to hear from the 15-year old school boy who had made the original tapes.<br />
It was great to hear Kevin describe in detail of the making of the recordings, including the regular chore involved in carrying the heavy reel-to-reel recorder to and from each session. Of course without such a practical labour of love the CD would not exist.<br />
Jim played a nice selection of three tracks from the CD - Luke Kelly singing 'The Unquiet Grave', 'L'Oiseau' by Supply, Demand and Curve and We 4's version of 'Summertime' featuring the superb vocal by Suzanne Murphy (who unsurprisingly went on the become the principal soprano of the Welsh National Opera).<br />
As an example of how the club encouraged the teenage participants to move from the local to the global (in both musical and lifestyle terms) Kevin also talked about his current home in Hawaii and his involvement in the two biggest optical telescopes in the world at Keck Observatory. Apparently the observatory has been responsible for discovering the majority of new planets found in the last 20 years. However, he couldn't confirm the rumour that due to the loudness of the Horslips gig at the club, the observatory had picked up traces of the noise created then still circulating in space!<br />
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The programme can be heard on reply at: <br />
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/programmes/2016/0324/777256-arena-thursday-24-march-2016/?clipid=2140896#2140896 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-36505333671311132352016-03-28T17:43:00.001+01:002016-03-28T17:43:45.023+01:00FOXROCK TO AUSTRALIA - 'REBEL CHORUS'<br />On Radio 2XXFM in Canberra on 19 March, Declan O'Connell presented a whole two-hour episode of his programme 'Rebel Chorus' focused on the folk club. He played a wide range of tracks from the album, including some jazz and blues numbers and the tracks were interspersed with an interview with myself on the line from Newcastle.<br />
Declan worked hard to bring the programme together and I was very pleased with the end result. <br />
It was great to have the opportunity to talk about and reflect on the experience of being part of the club with someone who is so very well versed in the music and the artists who played there and also knew the Dublin scene at that time. I hope the programme's audience in Canberra also found it enjoyable.<br />
Many thanks to Declan, 'Rebel Chorus' and 2XXFM for making it happen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-17892513893498066102016-03-16T13:38:00.000+00:002016-03-16T13:38:34.483+00:00'LIVE AT FOXROCK' IS STORMING UP THE CHARTS!Claddagh Records has the 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' album at No.6 in its Top Ten of best-selling albums.<br />
http://www.irishmusicmagazine.com/charts/top-10-april-2016/<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-40504621703744811972016-03-16T13:15:00.000+00:002016-03-16T13:34:10.571+00:00FOXROCK TO AUSTRALIAWhen Declan O'Connell was a young schoolboy in Blackrock, County Dublin in the early 1970s he was unaware of the exciting musical happenings that were taking place at the Foxrock Folk Club a couple of miles up the road. However, many years later and even though he is now living in Canberra, Australia, the folk club (through the 'Live at Foxrock' CD) has caught up with him.<br />
As presenter of the excellent Irish music programme, 'Rebel Chorus' (folk music with a political edge), on Canberra's radio station 2XXFM he heard about the CD and made it one of his top six CDs of 2015.<br />
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He is now devoting a whole two-hour programme to the club and its musical and historical legacy which will be broadcast on Saturday 19 March from 10am to 12noon (Australia time), which in the UK and Ireland is 11pm Friday 18 March to 1am Saturday 19 March.<br />
As well as playing many of the tracks from the album, there will be some extra recordings that didn't make the CD. The tracks will be interspersed with an interview with me as a member of the folk club committee and producer of the 'Live at Foxrock' CD.<br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Livestreaming around the world from
the Radio 2XX website: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.2xxfm.org.au/listen" target="_blank"><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;">www.2xxfm.org.au/listen</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">).</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-19618365110357994712016-01-31T11:54:00.000+00:002016-01-31T11:54:24.499+00:00THE IRISH TIMES, LUKE KELLY AND DIALECTICAL POSSIBILITIESThere was a great article on the club by Jim Carroll in the Irish Times yesterday. By a nice coincidence it appeared on the same day as the 32nd anniversary of Luke Kelly's death.<br />
Of course, the launch of the album itself on 17th November last year also happily coincided with what would have been Luke's 75th birthday. Perhaps, despite his comments on the contradictions involved in having a folk club in a place like Foxrock, Luke realised the dialectical possibilities of performing to such an enthusiastic group of youngsters.<br />
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Jim made the point that the tapes are of important historical, as well as musical value as, for example, there are very few live recordings of Luke Kelly (amongst others on the CD) in a folk club setting.<br />
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http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/luke-kelly-said-a-folk-club-in-foxrock-was-a-contradiction-in-terms-1.2513958Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-49206424829277319792016-01-25T22:00:00.001+00:002016-01-25T22:00:28.638+00:00ON-LINE REVIEWSHere is a couple of nice on-line reviews on amazon.co.uk:<br />
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Foxrock-Folk-Club-Parish/dp/B017H90X3U/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1453759032&sr=1-1&keywords=live+at+foxrock+folk+club#customerReviewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-33824395492938827782016-01-25T21:50:00.000+00:002016-01-25T21:50:24.588+00:00JOHN O'REGAN ON LIMERICK CITY COMMUNITY RADIOJohn O'Regan of Limerick City Community Radio played another track from the album on his radio programme 'Eclectic Celt' on
Sunday 10 January. His choice this time was Donal Lunny's recording of <i>High Germany </i>and as John said, though Donal Lunny recorded with the band 'Emmett Spiceland', he was a regular performer in the folk clubs but there are not many recordings of him playing solo.<br />
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Listen here at:<i> </i><br />
<i>http://www.limerickcitycommunityradio.org/podcasts.php?show=eclectic-celt&ampdate=2016-1-10 </i><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-28161386867565813812016-01-25T18:12:00.000+00:002016-01-25T18:12:17.829+00:00'BEO AG SCORAÍOCHT CARRAIG AN tSIONNAIGH'<br />
I often listen to Radio na Gaeltacht (a radio station in Irish) when I am back in Ireland as, of course, it plays great Irish music. But it also plays all other kinds of music as well; it's the presenters links that are in Irish. So I was very pleased to hear about Brian Mullen's programme <i>Caschlar </i>on BBC Radio Foyle in Northern Ireland which he presents in Irish at the same time as playing a great diversity of music.<br />
On the programme broadcast on 2nd January 2016 he had quite a long piece talking about the club which I must admit I didn't really understand but could sort of follow. He certainly mentioned young people and Kevin McCann and his tape recorder, as well as many of the artists who appeared at the club. Then he played two of the recordings, Supply Demand and Curve's track, <i>L'Oiseau </i>and <i>All My Friends Are Gone </i>by Johnny Norris.<br />
I was particularly delighted to hear someone playing Supply, Demand and Curve as they were a wonderful experimental Irish group who only made one LP in the 70s which is now impossible to find. Jolyon Jackson was a very talented musti-instrumentalist who went on to appear on a number of interesting albums with Irish musicians, particularly one album he made with the fiddler, Paddy Glackin. I was lucky enough to find this on cassette about 20 years ago so it may still be out there.<br />
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Brian's programme is called <i>Caschlar</i> and is on Radio Foyle at 8pm on Saturdays. The programme from the 2nd Jan is available on the BBC Radio Foyle for another week at: http://www.bbcukchina.com/programmes/b06sgj1x<br />
The material on the folk club and the two tracks start about 30 minutes in.<br />
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(The heading of this post is my effort to translate 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' into Irish. The word 'scoraiocht' means 'visiting your neighbours for an evening of music and song' which I think fits the spirit of the folk club pretty well.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-17962046772648084872016-01-23T18:40:00.000+00:002016-01-23T18:40:18.976+00:00RE-LIVE THE 'FOXROCK FOLK CLUB' EXPERIENCE!The <i>Fat Duck </i>Restaurant in Bray in Berkshire is one of the most famous (and expensive) in England. The chef who established it, Heston Blumethal, is renown for his unusual and experimental use of ingredients which include such dishes as egg and bacon ice cream and snail porridge. However one of the innovations of the restaurant that I find quite attractive is its concept of <i>multi-sensory dining</i> where you listen to the sound of the sea on an iPod as you are eating a shellfish dish. Not suprisingly I've never been, as the cost is as extreme as the
cooking and to get in (like some schools) you have to be put down for a
place on the day you're born, if not before. However, after a recent dining experience, I no longer have any reason to envy those who do get to the <i>Fat Duck.</i><br />
Passing through Dublin recently, I met up with Una, a stalwart of the folk club and of many other community activities, who still lives in the area. Together with my wife, we decided to have a nostalgic meal in the Shanai Indian restaurant that now occupies the building that was the Parish Hall where the folk club took place. The manager and his staff were very welcoming and were pleased to know about the previous history of the building and the manager was delighted when I gave him a copy of the CD. Although an extension has been added at the back of the restaurant, the long narrow main building that was the Parish Hall still remains and the door is in the same place.<br />
The food was excellent and we were happily tucking into the delicious chicken pakora and jumbo prawn house special curry remembering the folk club days (my wife is now an honorary member having heard the tapes so often!). Then I heard the music coming over the speaker system and said in amazement to Una, 'Listen, that's Al O'Donnell. He's playing the CD!' We couldn't believe it. Here we were in the parish hall listening to the recordings of musicians who we first heard live in the same place over 45 years ago. And he played both CDs right through!<br />
As far as we could see the other diners did not really notice this incredible Proustian moment but it may have had a subliminal effect and some time in the future when they are passing by Claddagh or Tower Records they will feel an irresistible urge to go in and buy the album.<br />
I don't know if the CD will be permanently on the sound track but
perhaps during a visit if you say you would like to hear a track or two,
maybe you will be lucky.... Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-8387971913664995182016-01-09T18:20:00.000+00:002016-01-09T18:20:13.922+00:00SOUNDS FROM AUSTRALIA - LISTENING ON-LINEOne of the unexpected outcomes of producing the CD is that I have started to listen to a good deal of radio on-line and have been surprised how easy it is. Before this I was always more of a 'steam radio' man myself. So I have gone from the delights of John O'Regan on Limerick City Community Radio to the great selection of musical options on Dublin City FM to BBC Wales, RTE Radio 1, and much further afield to Declan O'Connell's terrific music show, <i>Rebel Chorus</i>, on 2XXFM from Canberra, Australia.<br />
As was mentioned in an earlier post, he generously made 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' one of his six best albums of 2015 and I was delighted to be able to listen to the live stream of the programme. As far as I am aware it is not yet possible to hear his shows after they have been broadcast but Declan kindly sent me his script for the show which is a great example of how to link together different albums and different artists in a very coherent manner and to demonstrate the influence of earlier artists on those that come after.<br />
As mentioned in the script, Declan is planning a show in the near future on Foxrock Folk Club and the social and cultural context it emerged from. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Rebel Chorus</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, 12 December
2015, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Six of the Best'</i></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The
Quiet Joys of Brotherhood</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Plainsong, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reinventing Richard</i>:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Songs of Richard Farina </i>#1 (2:16)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Six of the Best – six of my favourite CDs
from 2015: One is Plainsong’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reinventing
Richard</i>. The other five are: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at
Foxrock Folk Club: The Parish Hall Tapes (</i>Andy Irvine, Luke Kelly, Ronnie
Drew and others recorded live at a Dublin folk club set up by teenagers in the
early 70s; it includes a track where Andy Irvine sings with an American accent),
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living </i>(covers of Ewan
MacColl songs), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice Told Tales </i>by
10,000 Maniacs (traditional folk songs from Britain and Ireland); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel Album</i> by Gurrumul and the
2-CD Michael Kennedy tribute <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hearth</i>.
We’ll also look forward to some special shows coming up in 2016.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Right now, I want to go back to my home
town, Dublin and take a time travel machine to Foxrock Folk Club on Dublin’s
southside in March 1971. Yeah, I wish I was in Dublin town. So does Andy
Irvine.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">I
Wish I Was in Dublin Town</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Andy Irvine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at Foxrock Folk Club<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">:</b> The Parish Hall Tapes </i>(CD1) #2
(3:56) (14 March 1971, by which time Andy had come back from his Balkan travels;
I could hear some Balkan rhythms in his mandolin playing)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our first song from the double Ewan MacColl
covers CD, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living</i>, was
made famous by Luke Kelly. We have sung here by another Dublin man, a man who
channels the spirit of Luke Kelly, Damien Dempsey.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Schooldays
Over</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Damien Dempsey, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living </i>(CD1) #1 (4:05)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Luke Kelly found it amusing that Foxrock,
possibly Dublin’s most affluent suburb where many of the houses had grounds rather
than gardens, had a folk club. A folk club in Foxrock, he thought, that would
be a contradiction in terms. But he played there and sang a Ewan MacColl song
for the young audience, teaching them some then recent US history. I’ll leave
Luke to introduce it himself.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Alabama
’58</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Luke Kelly, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at Foxrock Folk Club</i>:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
The Parish Hall Tapes</i> (CD1) #6 (3:53) (17 December 1972)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The
Shoals of Herring</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Seth Lakeman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living </i>(CD1) #4 (4:58)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Next up we’ve got a song about one of Luke
Kelly’s heroes, James Connolly, sung here by the late Michael Kennedy, who’ll
introduce it himself (recorded live at the National Folk Festival here in the
national capital).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">James Connolly</span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">, </span><span lang="EN-US">Michael Kennedy,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Hearth </i>(CD2) #1 (3:21)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Another of my favourite albums in 2015 was
Gurrumul's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gospel Album</i>. I had the
privilege of seeing Gurrumul live at the Canberra Theatre in August.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Amazing
Grace</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Gurrumul (with Paul Kelly), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel Album</i> #14 (4:06)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve now played five of my favourite six
albums from 2015. Last but not least we’ve got the 10,000 Maniacs album <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice Told Tales</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Death
of Queen Jane</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, 10,000 Maniacs, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice Told Tales</i> #11 (4:37)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I promised you a track where Andy Irvine
sings with an American accent live at Foxrock Folk Club. Here it is.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Talking
Dust Bowl Blues</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Andy Irvine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at Foxrock Folk Club</i>:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
The Parish Hall Tapes </i>(CD2) #14 (3:46) (14 March 1971)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We hope to do a whole show about Foxrock
Folk Club, including an interview with one of the club’s founders, Jeremy
Kearney, early in 2016.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Sell-Out
Agitation Waltz</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Plainsong, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Farina </i>#3 (3:31</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Richard Farina died in a motorbike accident
on 30 April 1966, two days after his novel, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Been_Down_So_Long_It_Looks_Like_Up_to_Me" title="Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to
Me</span></a></i> was published and the day his wife, Mimi Baez, turned 21. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel Chorus</i> is planning a special programmed
to mark the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Richard Farina’s death in late April
or early May 2016.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Dirty
Old Town</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Steve Earle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living </i>(CD1) #10 (3:20)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Sweet
Thames, Flow Softly</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living </i>(CD2) #8 (5:09)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">One of the first Rebel Choruses I ever did,
back in April 2008, was a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Manchester
Rambler</i> edition featuring the songs of Ewan MacColl. There are so many good
cover versions of MacColl songs on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Joy of Living </i>I can feel a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Manchester
Rambler 2</i> show coming on in 2016.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Riyala
(There Is a River)</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Gurrumul, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel Album</i> #12 (4:25)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Possum
Coat</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Michael Kennedy,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Hearth </i>(CD2) #5 (4:08)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When he was 71, Ewan MacColl tried to climb
a mountain in Scotland and found that he couldn’t. He knew his mountaineering
days were over and he wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of
Living</i> for his family.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The
Joy of Living</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, David Gray, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joy of Living </i>(CD2) #10 (4:41)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Pack
Up Your Sorrows</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Plainsong, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Farina </i>#2 (4:51)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Irish folk singer Al O’Donnell died in
September this year. He was a good friend to Foxrock Folk Club and Dublin folk
clubs generally. We’ll hear him now singing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avondale</i>,
a song about the demise of an Irish political leader, who led the Irish Home
Rule party in the Westminster Parliament, Charles Stewart Parnell. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avondale</i> was written by Dominic Behan, a
friend of and collaborator in musical projects with Ewan MacColl.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Avondale,</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> Al O’Donnell, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at Foxrock
Folk Club</i>:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Parish Hall Tapes</i>
(CD1) #1 (2:51) (17 February 1971)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Canadee-I-O</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, 10,000 Maniacs, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice Told
Tales</i> #7 (5:12)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Iain Matthews was in Fairport Convention
before they invented English folk-rock; when they were doing west coast
American style covers of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs and
Richard Farina. Later he formed his own band Matthews Southern Comfort.
Plainsong has been another long-term project of his (since 1972). He’s always
been a fan of Richard Farina’s songwriting. “The right chords, in the wrong
order, together with a wish for something good, can get you just about
anything.” (Richard Farina)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Sombre
Winds</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Plainsong, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reinventing Richard</i>:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The
Songs of Richard Farina </i>#14 (3:34)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Gurrumul’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gospel Album</i> is inspired by his family and his island community of
Galwinku.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Jesu</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Gurrumul, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gospel Album</i>
#1 (4:23)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">James Joyce’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnegans Wake</i> includes a poem called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly</i>, which tells an idiosyncratic Irish
version of the story of Humpty Dumpty.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Humpty
Dumpty</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Ronnie Drew, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at Foxrock Folk Club</i>:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
The Parish Hall Tapes</i> (CD1) #8 (1:52) (6 February 1972)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Dust and a Heartless Sky</span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">, Shane Howard, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hearth </i>(CD1) #9 (4:25)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I like it when I
find out that bands I like like each other. So I was very pleased to discover
that Fairport Convention was an acknowledged influence on Ithaca, New York band
10,000 Maniacs in their early days in the 1980s. In their most recent CD, the
New York band renew their interest in Fairport-Convention-style folk rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Bonny
May</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, 10,000 Maniacs, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice Told Tales</i> #7 (4:58)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Back in the early days when they were listening
to Fairport Convention, Natalie Merchant was lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs.
Then she went solo. She rerecorded her 1995 album <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tigerlily</i> this year. It could have been a contender for Six of the
Best but I haven’t heard it yet, although I’ve heard good things about it.
Here’s a track from the original 1995 CD.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">San
Andreas Fault</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Natalie Merchant, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tigerlily</i> #1 (3:59)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dave Rawlings Machine (which, of course,
includes the great Gillian Welch) will be playing at the Canberra Playhouse on
17 February 2016. Here’s a sample of what you can expect.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">I
Hear Them All/This Land Is Your Land</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, Dave Rawlings
Machine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Another Day, Another Time </i>(CD1)
#6 (5:47)</span></div>
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<i>Rebel Chorus</i> live streams on Friday nights at 11.00pm (UK/Irish time) at<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-71004439514049746582016-01-09T17:39:00.000+00:002016-01-09T17:39:11.326+00:00MORE TRACKS ON 'ROOTS FREEWAY'Niall Toner played some more tracks from the CD on last Saturday's edition of <i>Roots Freeway </i>and was again very positive about the album. The tracks were Al O'Donnell's fine version of the traditional song, <i>Rigs O' Rye, </i>and Andy Irvine's highly authentic rendition of Woody Guthrie's talking blues song, <i>Talking Dust Bowl Blues</i>, which includes excellent guitar work.<br />
Irvine has always been a great fan of Woody Guthrie and was a friend of Rambling Jack Elliott, Guthrie's close collaborator, when Elliott lived in London in the early 60s. It nice to imagine that when Andy Irvine played the folk club there were just three degrees of separation between Foxrock and Woody Guthrie.<br />
<br />This edition of <i>Roots Freeway</i> is available, as usual, on the RTE Radio web site and there is another episode of the show tonight.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-39732770831826301772016-01-09T17:17:00.000+00:002016-01-09T17:17:07.932+00:00ANOTHER REVIEW IN 'LIVING TRADITION' MAGAZINE<br />
<i>Living Tradition, </i>an excellent music magazine which covers folk and traditional music across both Britain and Ireland has a very interesting review of the CD coming out in its February edition (No. 112) and as the reviewer says, Foxrock Folk Club was 'the way good clubs should be!'<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">VARIOUS ARTISTS</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Live At Foxrock
Folk Club: The Parish Hall Tapes 1970-72</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cornelscourt Records<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CR001</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Voices and sounds from almost half a
century ago convey the atmosphere, warmth and spontaneity of their original
live performances in this enjoyable 37 track compilation album. The songs (only
one is instrumental) were recorded in a parish hall outside Dublin by Kevin
McCann using a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Amazingly, the tapes survived to be
converted to CDs! The quality of the recordings is more than satisfactory, with
excellent standards of playing and singing.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Approximately half the tracks are solid
folk, and include such classics as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McAlpine’s
Fusiliers</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unquiet Grave</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blackwaterside</i>. The others are mostly
blues, with some jazz, reflecting the musical melting pot that was the Foxrock
Club. There is a preponderance of single male singers - Andy Irvine, Ronnie
Drew, Luke Kelly and Al O’Donnell feature – partly because the basic recording techniques
did not cope well with bands. Only one woman performs, namely Suzanne Moore, who
contributes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Summertime</i>, and beautiful
harmony vocals with the group, We 4. The lady subsequently went to become principal
soprano with the Welsh National Opera! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sally
Brown</i> is the other harmony number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A booklet with a brief history, and notes
on the artistes, accompanies the package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The folk purist may baulk at the number of
blues and jazz pieces included in this selection. However the album is almost a
form of social history, and the listening experience is a pleasant one. There
are many fine examples of live folk performance – ideal for aspiring singers,
and the way good clubs should be! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.foxrockfolkclubproject.blogspot.co.uk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jim McCourt</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-33018508949540490412016-01-04T18:05:00.003+00:002016-01-04T18:10:00.649+00:00'LIVE AT FOXROCK' NOW AVAILABLE IN NEWCASTLE STORESThe "Live at Foxrock Folk Club' CD is now available in some Newcastle record stores.<br />
It can be purchased from either <i>Beatdown Records</i> who are in Bewick Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral and near the top of Pink Lane or<i> RPM Records</i> in Old George Lane beside the Old George pub off the Bigg Market. The price of the double CD with a 16 page booklet is £15.99.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-37102382067240670212016-01-04T18:05:00.000+00:002016-01-06T21:48:12.771+00:00ANOTHER REVIEW!The first reviewer of the CD on Lance Liddle's blog <i>Bebop Spoken Here </i>very kindly<i> </i>said it was their 'CD of the year (2015)'. Now the blog has generously posted a second review by another of their stalwart reviewers, Russell, who is a very big blues, as well as jazz, aficienado and says it is an 'essential purchase'. The review can be seen here:<br />
http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/cd-review-live-at-foxrock-folk-club_4.html<br />
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This review focuses a bit more on the blues and jazz tracks on the CD and I am pleased it picks out the highly enthusiastic audience response to the recordings by the great 1970s Irish jazz group, the Butler Fox Jazz Band. Most of the teenage audience had never heard a jazz band live before and I know that the band was quite concerned before they performed about how they would go down with such a crowd. As can be heard on the tracks, they needn't have worried.<br />
The drummer on these tracks, John Wadham, was originally from England but became quite a legend of the jazz scene in Ireland for his subtle but often ferocious drumming. He was quite a character, with a luxuriant handlebar moustache and sideburns and often smoked his pipe while drumming. He is immortalised in a metal bust in the well-known Dublin jazz venue, J.J. Smyths.<br />
The clarinet player with the group, Phil Butler (a.k.a. Jack Cudworth), had played regularly with the well-known guitarist, Diz Disley, before he moved to Ireland. Diz was a fixture in the jazz, blues and folk clubs in Soho and beyond in the 1960s playing varieties of jazz guitar and was famous at the time for the unlikely fact that he drove a Rolls Royce. Jack Cudworth's son tells stories of Diz spending much time at their house and taking the whole family out for drives in the Roller.<br />
Diz Disley later went on to play very successfully with Stephane Grappelli.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-13035650727992144392016-01-02T20:30:00.000+00:002016-01-02T20:30:12.280+00:00THE FIRST REVIEW OF THE ALBUM IN 2016There is a very nice review of the 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' CD on the excellent and long established North East of England jazz blog run by Lance Liddle called <i>Bebop Spoken Here. </i>The writer, Ann Alex, is a fan of both jazz and folk music as well as being a regular reviewer on the site.<br />
The review can be found here at:<br />
http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/cd-review-live-at-foxrock-folk-club.html.<br />
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The blog itself is a mine of information, including comprehensive listings of North East jazz gigs (of which there are many) and is well worth checking out if you are passing through the area. There are also regular reviews of the latest gigs and albums and lots of other useful information.<br />
<br />
Just a note for music fans in the North East:<br />
As well as the list of places where it is possible to purchase the album shown in the side panel, it will be available next week in a number of record stores in Newcastle. More information to follow....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-64722073626186419822015-12-30T14:18:00.001+00:002015-12-30T14:18:55.686+00:00"AS LIVE AS IT GETS" - NIALL TONER ON 'ROOTS FREEWAY'That was Niall Toner's comment at the end of Luke Kelly's Foxrock Folk Club recording of 'The Unquiet Grave' which he played on his RTE show, Roots Freeway, last Saturday night (Stephen's Day). He said that he had actually been there that night in December 1972 to hear Luke's performance and a very special night it was too.<br />
Niall was full of praise for the album and the range and diversity of the recordings on it. To illustrate this he also played Johnny Norris's virtuoso guitar performance on his Ragtime Medley - three, or is it four? -, ragtime pieces run together. As Niall said, this recording could be an early field recording from the 30s or 40s, so authentic is the playing.<br />
The third track he played was 'Blues in the Bottle' with Red Peters and Brian Fry and he rightly introduced Red Peters as 'one of the greatest Blues singers ever produced in this country'.<br />
<br />
It was great to hear these tracks from the album on Niall's programme as Roots Freeway is a wonderful show with terrific music of all kinds. In a way 'roots' music is a very good description of the different types of music on the album as all the tracks are 'rooted' in the early traditions of folk, trad, blues and jazz (listen to the Butler Fox band and 'Swingin' the Blues' to hear what a South Dublin 'speakeasy' sounded like).<br />
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For those who weren't lucky enough to be at the club (and even those who were) put on the CD, close your eyes and listen to the music of the time '<i>as live as it gets'.</i><br />
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This edition of Roots Freeway can be heard again on the RTE Radio web site at<br />
<i>http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9:10507887:3104:26-12-2015:</i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-75152536143523957312015-12-10T15:24:00.000+00:002015-12-11T11:40:07.907+00:00ALBUM SALES ARE GOING WELL<br />
The 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' album sales are going very well with a number of shops looking for further stock.<br />
Remember it makes the perfect Christmas gift so buy now and don't be disappointed.<br />
The album is available in Ireland from Tower Records, Claddagh and HMV (both from shops and their on-line stores) and also from Amazon and iTunes.<br />
In the UK and worldwide, the album is available from <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.birnamcdshop.com/" target="_blank">www.birnamcdshop.com</a>.</span> as well as www.amazon.co.uk / www.amazon.com and iTunes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-83973078287187575412015-12-10T15:14:00.000+00:002015-12-10T15:14:49.901+00:00'LIVE AT FOXROCK FOLK CLUB' IN AUSTRALIA<br />
Declan O'Connell, originally from Blackrock in Dublin but now living in Canberra, Australia, is planning to feature 'Live at Foxrock Folk Club' in his programme, 'Rebel Chorus', on the Canberra station 2XXFM on Friday 10 December at 11pm (UK/Irish time). I'm delighted to hear that the programme is about his six favourite albums of 2015 and 'Live at FFC' is one of these (quite an accolade considering that one of his other favourites is 'The Joy of Living', the commemorative album celebrating Ewan MacColl's centenary, which has a stellar cast of artists including Peggy Seeger, Norma Waterson, Martin and Eliza Carthy, Damian Dempsey, The Unthanks and more).<br />
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There is live streaming of the programme at <a href="http://www.2xxfm.org.au/listen" target="_blank">http://www.2xxfm.org.au/listen</a>
from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1313184270" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">11 pm</span></span>, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1313184271" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday 11 December</span></span> to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1313184272" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">1 am</span></span>,
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1313184273" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday 12 December</span></span>. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-39496573639986893462015-12-10T14:50:00.000+00:002015-12-10T14:50:10.737+00:00RADIO BROADCAST NEWSNoel Casey including two tracks from the CD as part of his excellent and musically eclectic programme, 'After Midnight', last Monday night / Tuesday morning on Dublin City FM. The songs featured the great blues singing of Red Peters with guitarist Brian Fry on 'Alberta' and a blues harp/vocal duo on 'Louise, Louise Blues' with Shay Fogarty, a member of Dirty Dozens.<br />
The Dirty Dozens played the club on two or three occasions and for many of us, it was our first experience of hearing live, raw, early blues - a never to be forgotten event.<br />
An essential part of the sessions were Red's informative, but also hilarious, introductions to songs. One memorable intro was to the song 'I Got Fooled' where his explanation of the story of sexual misadventure ended with the summary that the main character was 'caught frolicking and cavorting around the living room'. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-16679095334103778252015-12-07T09:07:00.000+00:002015-12-07T09:07:55.057+00:00MORE FROM DUBLIN CITY FMThe 'Live at Foxrock' album will be featured on Dublin City FM again tonight/tomorrow morning on Noel Casey's splendid programme 'After Midnight' which runs from midnight on Monday to 2am Tuesday. He always plays a wide selection of musical styles from rock, blues, folk, country and more.<br />
It looks as if he will be playing a couple of Red Peters tracks.<br />
Keep up with the programme on the 'After Midnight' facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AfterMidnightDublinCityFm. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398182161191167626.post-50945479275226051372015-12-04T14:53:00.000+00:002015-12-04T14:53:31.022+00:00MORE RADIO PLAYSJohn O'Regan of Limerick City Community Radio spoke very postiively about the album and the club on his radio programme 'Eclectic Celt' on Sunday 29 November. He also played the Al O'Donnell track <i>Avondale.</i><br />
<i>T</i>he podcast of the programme can be heard here:<i> </i><br />
<i>http://www.limerickcitycommunityradio.org/podcasts.php?show=eclectic-celt&ampdate=2015-11-29 </i><br />
and the material on the club is about 10 minutes in. More tracks are promised for future programmes. <br />
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On his 'Blues Train' programme on Dublin City FM last Sunday, Charlie Hussey played a couple of the blues tracks from the album - Johnny Norris singing the Rev Gary Davis song 'All My Friends Are Gone' and Red Peters and Brian Fry version of 'Alberta'. Charlie also gave due credit to Kevin McCann and his reel-to-reel tape recorder.<br />
It was good to hear Charlie dedicate the tracks to the amazing Larry Roddy who did some much to encourage the development of the blues scene in Dublin in the 60s and 70s and beyond. In the mid 60s with Red Peters and some others he formed the Irish Blues Appreciation Society which was based in Slatterys of Capel Street and then organised many concerts with leading American blues artists.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0