A big heavy music business person we were talking to about our music lately said that when people ask us what we play, we shouldn’t say “World music” or “Folk Music” or “a mix of original and traditional material” - just come out with something that will catch them off guard and communicate more of […]
We ventured out last night to the College of Santa Fe to hear a talk by composer/anthropologist Steven Feld, a very inspiring thing to see. We’ve been lately facing the world of the music business a good deal, with its myriad complications and distortions of an intensely simple reality, and although it’s a realm we […]
Listening tonight to some of our old favorites, Dolores Keane and John Faulkner, to the songs that drew us first away from home into the world, old Irish ballads, it strikes me to what extent the thing that I love in music comes directly from the land. You can feel the heath and the moorland […]