Daoirí Farrell Trio at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2018

our first act tonight is a young man from Dublin who has a way with the song and he's caused quite a stir in the folk scene and he's won folk awards and people have made comparisons with all sorts of legendary people but I'll let you judge for yourselves and let me introduce to you without further ado Derry Farrell [Applause] just give me one sec everybody on earth good to see you great to see y'all how's it goin huh looks like you brought the old weather from Ireland hahahahaha and all those jokes well it's great to see everybody and it's really amazing to be here the first act yeah and I gotta start off with a little song called the Craig and white hair it goes like this [Music] in the lowlands of Craigan their use of white hair flies through the air to compare to the dragon man funny white hair all clear not morning as you will suppose all the red golden sun or defeat mountain roles Barney cut we came down and here to declare on his stairs and to the funny way hair so he flashed through the lowlands down through the cleanses all of the wild pitches where the winter dance till a gas coming down behind the white the white hair and is gone to this donkey switch to the wind or the Green Mountain but his other son came back and it made Barney Barney new business [Music] hundreds of Johnny sportsmen down here from pop Roy from Cookstown to ganon unlike boy with our pedigree grounds are we travel from can we come now to begin the Nara fine motorcar into lowlands these ones been to go in search off the white-haired high and low Barney card we from it are so rare down it up to the there lies the white hair study ball that the greyhounds from up the green Barney I'm the homesman algae of Tyree he was there on the Turnpike got it around $7.00 a night men oh no wonder that two-way tear the children moving fear as she stood on her hind legs she raised through the gears and she stood on her hind leg a ring she jumped over the Greyhounds I broke through the ring well 98 should bend I need advance it beautiful to you I slipped on the wind or the Green Mountain [Music] they came back in with all the near plane Boulder [Music] then there came another man you all know him well his name it was Mikkel even funny but now for we search on the waiter to dial ha [Music] maybe someone might Oh got them from bunny [Music] [Music] see all the way up [Music] [Applause] [Music] and now to conclude and to finish this rhyme I hope you me for singing all this while it is not me amongst you up and coming more bear please drink up a hell to that funny white [Music] thank you very much everybody can you please welcome to the stage mr. Blackie O'Connell and mr. Robbie Walsh everybody thank you thanks very much everybody it's great to be the first act here at Shrewsbury folk week and it's we're gonna have a great time everybody is everybody up here in the front bring our dancing shoes and stuff like that well you won't need them tonight cousin huh why did you okay okay there's plenty more where that came from well I think we're gonna have a set of tunes we lost we lost a setlist unfortunately everybody will be sad to hear hello everyone 1995 we rolled out a new one there your answer how's it going lads I'll try that again will hey how's it going everybody I might try it again I think and how's the old Shrewsbury we need to get Blacky a pair of sunglasses we brought the weather with us see you joiner [Music] I missed that one he was playing Pokemon on his phone that's why [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's pretty cold inside here pipes if youse all jumped around a bit probably why my boat sir could you be hover no is the answer no we're already so hot [Laughter] hold on there for one second now this instrument everybody for those of you who don't know it's called the bouzouki and I think it's actually Greek for constantly out of children we're going to sing a song for you now everybody my name the first song that I song was a song called the Craig and white hair and it's one of my favorite songs and they're like recorded that on an album in 2009 called a first turn this dis song this next song is another favorite of ours and I learned this song from the singing of Luke Kelly one of the finest folk singers to ever beyond the earth I think and he this is an old English love song called the unquiet grave and I'm gonna sing it for you now so I hope you enjoy it everyone it goes like this [Music] all the wind art blows today a few small drops of rain I never have [Music] no cold lazy [Music] I do much for my own truth [Applause] as any I sit alone my true love's brave for 12 [Music] daddy [Music] unless it's out from the GA [Music] here [Music] Oh design [Music] my true who sits here all on your delay Oh I crave one kiss Rami your sweet sweet lips and art is all like rain hold on you one kiss my old my rabbit is there please strong honey that you want one kiss for up I call dibs Oh your time on earth it will soon be done oh my time or my time being short tomorrow [Music] or today [Music] Bagon didn't heaven take my soul I'll kiss your lips all day [Music] see down garden oh where we used to walk all the Sweden's floodlights have our dead role is with our new store own that store is wither try now my long unsure hearts day must seek a : make yourself content now my love for Ikey is your lip song play all the way today my lawn a few small drops all [Music] Oh [Music] sign [Music] under the new you Peter thank you very much folks thank you folks [Applause] right so they all okay um I'm Blackie by the way how are you and that's Robbie mystery I am from a County Clare in Ireland right who's been to come declare all the food row plants there all plants here's me into Dublin who has been to Dublin and once Dakota County Clare Clare is the home owner music I don't play a couple of reels Freya if I can at all what they are know is as much your guess as it is mine it says DEA which could be you've ism or an innuendo [Music] it's fine it's actually fine Blackie first you know our and outdoor it's actually fine because everyone's been drinking all day so no one really cares I mean it's actually fine how many it umpires are in the room somebody said how do you know that's too many [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] when they get a bit more of a Sookie please and a little bit more plates on the table Mr Bauer on as well yes a bit of everything yeah oh you're very kind and embarrass Nolan [Applause] [Music] Jesus Christ what he's tuning up I am I'm gonna tell a joke or something we could be here for a while it's [Music] if anybody wants to hear the proper version of these songs the iron on the CD which you can actually purchase off the guys over at an air roots roots music over there and intent it's it's a great and we're gonna be over there actually at a 8:45 sign in CDs if anybody would like to purchase what we like to call in this band anyway a lifetime of happiness we don't like to call them CDs as much matter guarantee yeah there's a guaranteed there is actually a guaranteed lifetime of happiness if your boy one yeah but it's actually a it's a great it's a great boy there's only 40 of each anyway so you know you don't have a we didn't have any real to bring anymore cuz we flew right air [Applause] cheap and japheth distance called the valley of knockanure everybody and that's a gorgeous gorgeous song that that comes from the south of Ireland goes like this I was like this [Music] [Applause] [Music] you may sing or speak about Easter week or of the heroes of 98 eight of the Fijian men who roam the gland in the tree or defeats on their names and history pages told their memories [Music] son was a song about darling sons in the valley no [Music] well there were well just lions on the Dalton boys and they were young and in their right hands dear humble to round some spots where the blackened times did lying upon the can mould they did a hole along [Applause] [Music] Avery Hill ie median income [Music] every house in every town there me oh they're closing it all around there's a fire so sure Dalton is down four lines day nobody knows [Music] when they took him down the under fence where the flowers the we're landfill blue unday down upon the grass for two phases final doom and end all - he spoke Alice's voice it broke out loud and [Music] died [Music] I'm the bail [Music] it was rising high from study the dismal stars on the car they are [Music] [Applause] she Wednesday [Music] [Music] thank you very much folks [Applause] [Music] thanks very much ladies and gentlemen boiler was what it was singing that song I was just watching a spider making a web in me hand and it reminded me of last week well two or three days ago actually yeah I just came from Milwaukee Irish folk fest and it was it was lovely and ah but it's it's it's you know it was really really lovely festival it was absolutely massive well it's great to be back home and it's great to be over here in Shrewsbury this is our first time here and it's really really lovely to be here everybody and the same as over there there's a lot of volunteers that are working here at this festival and I'd like for you to give all the volunteers and the people that are helping out a big round of applause because without that was going as you know you know I serve and the sound man as well everybody was going to keep them to the end for there we've got crane down there he given us out the sound and the front the house and we've got a shelf here given us the monitors and Lawrence and everybody all the crew we work with them all the time and absolutely fantastic people we actually walked in here today and we saw the guys and we went great let's just drink beer it's gonna be fine so what we didn't I didn't anyway I'm drinking water and there that's great it's going well so far yeah well we came all the way over underline air flow today everybody would have been it would be an absolute sin to not have Robbie demonstrate at the Baron on for you would you like to see that yeah this is Robbie Welch in my opinion one of the best barrel run players that ever lived I'm telling you that now and he is you got to do a demonstration no pressure definitely the best poor arm player on the stage [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay hold a limb the woman in Overtown the woman you all do well of she loved her husband dearly and another man twice as well or be rights in the canary or me to fear to Google me right Vinnie canary or what - Bernard up to Nancy ha she went into the chemistry on forever it is to find I'm you anything in your chemist shops and make me husband blind OB right Finnegan every ami chips in ago I'll be right Finnick and there do two burner up to Nancy since she give a mains and Mara bones and making something fall on me party has to ask for socks he won't see what i'lli'll be right Finnegan Ariane me to fear Nagoya be right Finnegan air me over Tippin are up to Nancy well she gave a mention marathon she made a party has the last word softy couldn't see her natal be mate Finnegan everybody on me to fail to do all of the right thing a canary or what what if interrupted Nancy this one I kind of see it's here they cannot stay we take a girl off and drowned meself come on she says I'll show you the way Finley can there be omitted Finnegan no village Finnegan Lvov to burn me with Finnegan area mobile chicken are up to Maxie but she swam through the river all she's went to are supplying you know that I underlined me right Finnegan every of a particular option Nancy oh there's nine in me family now and under the fami all I wished each and every man but coming claim his own one me right Finnegan air be orbited fear to go all me right Finnegan area one more Tippin our time to Nancy I lived a woman to know what a woman you well she might as well be like finna can there be a repeat offender who me like Finnegan every Oh a bunch of the never been a canary or be to feel the world me right Vinny canary or mr. Walton [Applause] we do not wait for time we're doing okay yeah is everybody okay prepared on children device loom unfortunately it's come to that point son Mason where I'm gonna play a tune [Applause] and it's a very cheery tune it's a very happy festival kind of a tune it's a very very old tune actually and it's it's called gold Allah Munson are in Irish who speaks Irish or Gaelic around here do you have any Irish great over there so gold no monseñor it translates to the The Crying of the women amongst the slaughter not the happiest of titles I'll be honest you know snappy wouldn't settle for page but it's a very very very old piece of music and it's the whole piece itself is about 28 minutes long so we're gonna close the doors so get comfortable and we're all going to be here together for the next you know make friends with your neighbor [Laughter] but actually a bit of trivia for you it's actually the first recorded piece of music on the Ilyn pipes recorded by a man called Mickey khumba of solo on from Dingle [Music] and Mickey combo solo on from Dingle he also had to deal with lights and open doors [Music] which are notoriously difficult for me she looks grant closed over me no I'm gonna get very seriously so I want a lot of concentration right here we go [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] like you cuddle everybody on the pipes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] apparently the Olympics are the hardest incidents keep in June I'm definitely in the right band [Music] this one's called Pat Rainey everyone [Music] my name is Pat Rainey I'm a traveling man I met Charles boxer I'll make you become parents among nomads mine King Bob McLeod everyone hold it all [Music] with my speech I've always got plenty to tell me tea people know should be shot I surely [Music] I squeezed because these are actually calling me come for me Oh fun love a drink and I'm shield it's no crime to sit down and Achebe me calm rates like five until the morning - time everyone [Music] [Applause] [Music] beach night calls down from the farm and her husband he gets cold but I am quite a warm for a year to be 10 [Music] - sorry when she sees we broke up busted [Music] this way I check [Music] for my name is but rainy I am a traveling man I met your elbow sir I'll make my time [Music] thank you very much folks thank you two minutes yeah ladies and gentlemen we're gonna do one more I think and then we're finished we're going to get off the stage and then we're going to go bill to the CD tent if anybody wants to come over and say hello please do come over and say hello crack we're great crack all together and it's gonna be it's fantastic I hope that you enjoyed it everybody enjoyed it the trio yeah you never know something mad like we could be back next year might happen you'd never know Ted to be gasps gonna be very funny what we doing with you give it a lash and see what happens I don't know will we do the whole lot of it oh I don't want to annoy anybody okay piss off the organizers no come on module record will you piss off the organizers [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] we will you mine him from it [Music] hiyee - borno ish I traveled or am I myyy Holmes Road no feet I must travel till I die those humane [Music] me coming space I and PR call me friend what a hard road for the travel I must travel to League and hunger and cheats and poverty and to run large weird Oh hardships and poverty and double ha ie came to Dublin city and a year of 59 and I come dim lunge downs grim Valley with honor burns of my open Tomlin's compilation gone Christians - tore down our camp and uprooted Oz untrained out our Caravan Ungar hardships and poverty and the trouble arts we're alone hunger hardships and poverty Daboo oh dear in Cherry Orchard [Music] Arn no cherry blossoms we are forgotten undaunted in dirt and muck one tamanna Babu diet for laws and was nailed on to our tree why wasn't he on the same Mars you and me please guard in your own good time live the travelers weary low hun will bid farewell to poverty under below [Music] big stuff thank you very much everybody thanks a lot we did another set of rails to play a motel up next year thanks a million yes yes ladies and gentlemen Gary Farrell trio fantastic go let's set the bar pretty high I think don't go away fantastic crew

Channel: Shrewsbury Folk Festival

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Length: 63min 59sec (3839 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 08 2018