The Meeting Of The Waters
A selection of mostly traditional folk from across the
Bristish Isles but with a special spotlight on Northumbria's rich musical
heritage. Particular focus on Tyneside & Tynedale (where I was born
& bred), with several numbers local to Hexhamshire & the locality, a staggeringly beautiful region.
There's always been a lively grassroots folk scene in the region, which I was inevitably & indelibly influenced by as a youth. Haweh all you canny lads & lassies, we're ganning to the barn dance taneet...
Stagshaw Bank Fair was a massive, raucous annual event high on the
moors above Corbridge, right up there on Hadrian's Wall, until it was
discontinued in the 1800's. The Meeting of The Waters (or Watersmeet)
refers to the confluence of the North & South Tyne rivers but also
to a number of similar spots on rivers throughout the British Isles.
Also featuring some great Irish compositions, including a Pogues
selection in honour of the late Shane MacGowan.
Tracklist
Pentangle - When I Was In My Prime Kathryn Tickell Band - Floating
From Skerry / Hushabye Birdie & Hexham Lasses The Harvesters -
Curragh Of Kildare The Pogues - Dirty Old Town / The Old Main Drag The
Johnstons - Port Of Amsterdam The Dubliners - The Fermoy Lassies &
Sporting Paddy / Seven Drunken Nights Shirley Collins & The Albion
Band - Poor Murdered Woman Kathryn Tickell & Hannah Rickard - The
Water Of Tyne Pentangle - A Maid That's Deep In Love James Galway &
The Chieftans / The Harvesters - She Moved Through The Fair Ewan MacColl
- The Bleacher Lass Of O'Kelvinhaugh Tim Hart & Maddy Prior -
Dalesman's Litany Fairport Convention - Flatback Caper Bernard Wrigley -
Balance A Straw The High Level Ranters - Hexham Quadrille / Kielder
Falls Steeleye Span - One Misty Moisty Morning / The Ups And Downs Van
Morrison & The Chieftans - Star Of County Down The Dubliners - The
Travelling People Kathryn Tickell - Stagshaw Bank Fair / Shew's the Way
to Wallington / Mile to Ride Isla Cameron - Buy Broom Besoms / Still I
Love Him Bert Jansch - Silly Woman Dick Gaughan - The Floo'ers Of The
Forest / Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation The Pogues - I'm A Man You
Don't Meet Every Day Bernard Wrigley - The Five Gallon Jar / Gee Whoa,
Dobbin / Jack The Horse Courser Billy Conroy - Napoleon's Grand March
The Chieftans - Bonaparte's Retreat Fotheringay - Banks Of The Nile The
Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Kathryn Tickell & The
Unthanks - Canny Keel Lad / Water Of Tyne Paddy Reilly - The Meeting Of
The Waters The Johnstons - Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Fairport
Convention - Farewell, Farewell Steeleye Span - Rogues In A Nation
