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Fire Draw Near Ian Lynch
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5.0 • 34 Ratings
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Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.
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Barbara Allen III
This episode looks at North American versions of the ballad Bonny Barbara Allen aka The Ballet of Barbara Allen aka Barbara Allen's Cruelty aka Barbarous Ellen aka Edelin aka Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen aka The Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green aka Sir John Graham aka Barbry Allen.
Tracklist:
Norman Candler – Barbara Allen
Almeda Riddle – Barbara Allen
Texas Gladden – Barbara Allen
Banjo Bill Comet – Barbara Allen
Jean Ritchie – Barbara Allen
Royal Dadmun – Barbara Allen
Eddie Arnold – Barbara Allen
The Everly Brothers – Barbara Allen
A Christmas Carol – Barbara Allen
Frank Luther – Barbara Allen
The Hillmen – Barbara Allen
Roscoe Holcomb – Barbara Allen Blues
Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones – Barbara Allen
The Handsome Family – Barbara Allen
Balanced Voices – Barbara Allen
UTSA Wind Ensemble – Barbara Allen
Norman Candler – Barbara Allen
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Fire Draw Near Episode XLI
Fire Draw Near Episode XLI features 4 tracks called Trip to Ireland, 3 tracks with piping, 2 tracks called Foggy Mountain Breakdown, 1 track with dirty bits and loads more - such as Earl Scruggs playing banjo alongside a moog, Paddy Glackin playing fiddle alongside a synth, some madser playing techno alongside a fiddle tune and a load of Scottish women singing along to the beating of cloth.
Tracklist:
Liam O’Flynn – The Piper of the Embers / The Sixpenny Money
The Croppy Boy – Anne Byrne
Pierre Bensusan – Le Voyage Pour l’Irlande
John McSherry and Michael McGoldrick – The Trip to Ireland
Pádraigín Ní Úallacháin and Garry Ó Briain – Suamhailcí Samhailcí / Trip to Ireland
Fíona Ní Churraoin, Caitlín Ní Chualáin - Gugalaí Gug!
Captain Peacock – Trip to Ireland
Earl and Randy Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Gil Trythall – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Jolyon Jackson and Paddy Glackin – The Japanese Hornpipe
Kate Nicholson – Waulking Song
Pierre Bensusan – Heman Dubh
Beau James Wilding – Set Myself on Fire
Sean McAloon, Packie Fox and Hugh McCormack – The Lark in the Morning / Saddle the Pony
Harry Cox – She was a Rum One
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FDN Christmas Special - Episode XXVII
Featuring all of the usual plus even more of the unusual than usual! Joyce, NO PRISONS, songs that sound like other songs, English toffs doing Irish pleb cosplay, Irish ne’er do-wells doing English farmer cosplay, English farmers singing songs that are actually plots of 1970s pornos set in the 1700s, a dramatical audio tale, people playing the taps, everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Irish rebel ballads with @rebelmatters and that’s without even mentioning what you’ve been waiting for all week - the winners of the Fire Draw Near Raucous Rebel Christmas Cock Challenge 2021!!!
Tracklist
James Stephens – The Brown and the Yellow Ale
Jim Eldon – I Wish There Was No Prisons
Gan Ainm – Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle
Michael Lee Yonkers – Funboots
The Pogues – Thousands are Sailing
Tommy Reck – The Irish Washerwoman
Tommy Reck – The Scholar / the Salamanca / Hand Me Down the Tackle
Eimear Walshe – The Piper’s Grip
Willie Clancy – The Gander
Thomas Allen and Sheila Armstrong – Billy Boy
Aberdeen Schoolchildren – My Mother and Your Mother
The Copper Family – Dame Durden
A Feckless Pack of Ne’er-Do-Wells – Ebeneezer Goode
Rebel Matters Interview
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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXX
Episode XXXX is a big Christmas special full of dead heros, secret guests, strange dreams, folk weirdos, camp highwaymen, throat-singing cowboys, young girls drinking ale straight from the barrel, Finno-Hibernian cryptids, and people who spend Christmas in Jail.
Dedicated to the memory of Angelo Badalamenti.
Tracklist
Osa Mosafinn – Brurermarsj (Bridal March)
Micho Russell – Christmas Day in the Morning
Kú Killian – Kú’s Khristmas
Fiddlin’ John Carson – Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
Hack Poet’s Guild – Daring Highwayman
Pato Banton – I Do not Sniff The Coke
Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne – Valentine O’Hara
Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver
The Watersons – Holly She Bears a Berry
Elspeth Anne – When I Was a Young Girl
Máire ní Ghráda – Queen of the Rushes
Isa Gordon – When You Got it Done
Richardin Korkkijalka - Kunniallinen Nainen
Richardin Korkkijalka – Friar’s Britches
Culainin Koirat - Helmi Pohjolan
Duo Ruut – Nightingale
Johnny Brennan – Early Morning Rakija
Arthur Miles – Lonely Cowboy 1 & 2
Unnamed – The Yodelling Donkey
Hatchet Field – Run On
The Youngsters – Christmas in Jail
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North Circular
This is a one-off bonus episode featuring a number of live performances from Luke McManus' new film North Circular.
The film is a documentary musical journeying along the North Circular Road in Dublin's North Inner City.
Written & directed by Luke McManus, edited by John Murphy, produced by Luke McManus & Elaine Gallagher.
Score by Kevin Murphy and Seti The First.
North Circular opens on December 2nd in Irish Film Institute, Dublin 2, Light House, Dublin 7, Savoy Cinema, Dublin 1, IMC Dun Laoghaire and Queens Film Theatre Belfast.
It opens on Dec 4th at Bertha Dochouse in London, and on Dec 9th in the Gate Multiplex in Cork and Palás Cinema in Galway.
Tickets and info from www.northcircular.ie
Production and mixing on tracks by Hugh Fox.
Boom operated by Dave Harris.
NCR picture by Andrew Sheridan.
Tracklist
John Francis Flynn - Lag Song
Annie Hughes - The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Dark Horse on the Wind
Jerry O'Reilly - Van Diemen's Land
Julie Kavanagh - Siúil a Rún
Ian Lynch - Banks of the Nile
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Barbara Allen II
This episode looks at English and Scottish versions of the ballad Bonny Barbara Allen aka The Ballet of Barbara Allen aka Barbara Allen's Cruelty aka Barbarous Ellen aka Edelin aka Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen aka Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green aka Sir John Graham aka Barbry Allen.
Tracklist:
Norman Candler – Barbara Allen
Sam Larner – Barbara Allen
Caroline Hughes – Barbary Allen
Debbie and Pennie Davies – Barbara Allen
Shirley Collins – Barbara Allen
The Hare and the Moon – Barbara Allen
Stick in the Wheel – Barbara Allen
Norman Kennedy – Bonny Barbara Allen
Jimmy Stewart – Barbara Allen
Jessie Murphy – Barbara Allen
Ethel Findlater – Barbara Allen
Dan Gibson’s Solitudes – Barbara Allen
Norman Candler – Barbara Allen
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Customer Reviews
Enjoyable, interesting, enlightening, class!
Beautiful gem of a podcast this.
Ian Lynch (of Lankum) digs into some great material, songs, info and more.
If you’re at all into trad or folk it’ll be right up your alley I’m sure