Cogsey Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Hi For anyone interested, I’ve just come back from an intense and fun weekend in Chewton, Victoria rehearsing for a new concertina album. I’ve teamed up with Kate Burke (an amazing multi-instrumentalist and singer – see TroubleintheKitchen.com or Kateandruth.com), Aifric Boylan (a great fiddle player and partner) and Graeme Newell (a jewel of a guitar player from Melbourne). I’ve been promising myself that I’d record a concertina album for many years but never made the time and I didn’t really feel comfortable recording a straight-trad album – there are already too many great ones. We’ve worked through 15 sets of original compositions – some in an Irish traditional vein and many others leaning on other folk music influences - Hard to define - probably best left to someone else. I’ll be playing a custom anglo C/G concertina made by Colin and Rosalie and John Dipper. It has a lovely range and tone with some great baritone sounds to boot. To be honest, many of the tunes wouldn’t exist without that concertina. Anyway – we’re recording in April in Melbourne and I hope to have something to share a few months after. I’ll keep you posted. All the best Ciaran P.S. And for anyone that might make it to the National Folk Festival in Canberra at Easter, Aifric and I will be playing (with Graeme) – sort of launching the album, “The Hunting Room”, that we recorded in 2013 and then lost -and then emigrated to Australia - and then found… Long story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Wilson Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Fantastic, great to hear about this upcoming album. Shall look forward to it. I'll be seeing Kate at the end of the week (she lives just 25min away) and maybe get a little insight into what's coming. Unfortunately I'm not going to get to NFF this year Ciaran, you have a great weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cogsey Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 Many thanks for that, Steve. A shame you wont make the NFF. Hopefully we'll catch up again before too long. Cheers Ciaran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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