FDN LXVII
Fire Draw Near LXVII shall henceforth be known as Episode 115, as I will be consolidating the regular and bonus shows from now on. This epis...
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Fire Draw Near
Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.
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The Old Man from Lee
This episode looks at the ballad The Old Man from Lee aka the Old Man from Over the Sea aka The Young Lass Contra Old Man aka The Carle He C...
LXVI
Episode LXVI concentrates on iterations of the traditional within a modern context. At some times it is a soft embrace, at others a collisio...
The Dark Eyed Sailor
This episode looks at the ballad The Dark Eyed Sailor aka Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor Tracklist Phil Tanner – Fair Phoebe and Her D...
FDN LXV
Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices an...
FDN LXIV
This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as mo...
FDN LXIII
FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year wi...
FDN LXII
I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that defin...
FDN LXI
Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quali...
Blackwater Side
This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller...
FDN LX
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...
Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window
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 K...
FDN LIX
Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and...
The Boston Burglar
This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transpor...
FDN LVIII
Episode LVIII is a spotlight on the Appalachian region of the USA, based around an interview with the one and only Andy the Doorbum and focu...
FDN LVII
Episode LVII is a grim Halloween special featuring some creepy favourites! Artwork is a German painting of the Danse Macabre, creator unknow...
The Greenland Whale Fishery
This episode looks at the song The Greenland Whale Fishery aka The Greenland Whale Fisheries aka The Greenland Whalers aka When the Whale Ge...
Fair Margaret And Sweet William
This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka...
FDN LVI
Fire Draw Near Episode LVI turns a focussed ear to the liminal weirdos at the very fringes of traditional and folk music. And Nioclás Tóibín...
The Suffolk Miracle
This episode looks at the ballad the Suffolk Miracle aka the Holland Handkerchief aka the Lover's Ghost. Tracklist Nora Cleary – The Holland...