Week 2 January 9 (#1911)
Join Fiona Ritchie at the Swannanoa Gathering’s Traditional Song Week with her guests Appalachian balladeer Elizabeth LaPrelle and Irish singer and flute player Nuala Kennedy. Together they explore the connections between songs of love, loss and migration that connect Scotland, Ireland and Appalachia.
Footsteps/Julian and Iwona's...by Nuala Kennedy from Tune In (Compass)
Five Mile Town...by Nuala Kennedy from Tune In (Compass)
Óró mo bháidín (excerpt)...by Nuala Kennedy - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
Bobby Shaftoe (excerpt)...by Elizabeth LaPrelle - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
Black is the Colour (excerpt)...by Elizabeth LaPrelle - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
Cha Tig Mòr...by Nuala Kennedy - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
The Three Little Babes (The Wife of Usher's Well)...by Elizabeth LaPrelle - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
[ID excerpt] Ida Red...by Anna Roberts-Gevalt & Elizabeth LaPrelle from Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)
Troubles (excerpt)...by Anna Roberts-Gevalt & Elizabeth LaPrelle from Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)
Awake, Awake You Drowsy Sleeper (excerpt)...by Elizabeth LaPrelle - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
Night Visiting Song (excerpt)...by by Nuala Kennedy - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
Sally Sits a-Weeping...by Nuala Kennedy and Elizabeth LaPrelle - sung live at the Swanannoa Gathering
Five Mile Town...by Nuala Kennedy from Tune In (Compass)