Fire Draw Near

By: Ian Lynch
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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. https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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Episodes
  • FDN LX
    Mar 18 2025
    FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing. Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann Jim Ghedi – The Seasons Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830) Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!] Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured Varo ft. John Francis Flynn – Green Grows the Laurel Jim Ghedi – Sheaf & Feld Danny Diamond – A Dream of Home https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window
    Mar 10 2025
    This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over Tracklist Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain Harry List – Knife on the Window AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly Harry Cox – Knife in the Window Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior) Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • FDN LIX
    Feb 10 2025
    Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity with a side dish of wonktown 2000. Artwork from Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 15th - 16th century. Tracklist Sam Spence – Quest For The Silver Trophy Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnail – The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / An Mhalaidh Garbh Macdara Yeates – One Starry Night Bláth na hÓige – Seán Gabha Powtes – Green Brooms Grey Stag – Blessington Maid Cruel Mother – Down the Greenwood Side Espers – Rosemary Lane Isa Desmet – The Prickle Holly Bush Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music The Kipper Family – The Losing Of The Whale Paul Denman & Jennifer Reid – Life's Spinning Song Green Ribbons – The Well Below The Valley Tom Lehrer – I Got It From Agnes Scafell Pike – The New York Trader Dubz Ft Ronnie Drew – The Last Leviathan https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    1 hr and 20 mins

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