Today’s Treasures – Live Folk Music
North Shropshire Folk are back – with live music at Whitchurch Leisure Centre. It was so lovely to meet people again, enjoy listening to the music – and watching the musicians play.
Live music is always magical to me – I love music but I don’t play any instruments myself and it constantly amazes me how musicians can weave intricate patterns with their fingers and create tunes that harmonise, watching and listening sends me into another world, totally enraptured with the music.
The Jeremiahs opened a new season of folk nights – an Irish folk band of four musicians who clearly really enjoy performing the folk tunes they have composed.
‘The Wild Barrow Road’ was written in the back seat of a car on a summer journey through Cumbria – and completed for a gig they were playing that night: “Ireland is the only nation in the world where procrastination takes on a sense of urgency”.
Singer Joe Gibney is from County Dublin. On fiddle, viola and vocals is County Cork’s Niamh Varian-Barry; French born Julien Bruneteau plays the flute and on Guitar is Dublin born James Ryan.
Ireland has inspired many artists – poets and writers as well as musicians – the Emerald Isle with its castles and rugged coastlines, folklore and fairy tales, has inspired many haunting melodies, passionate love songs, and poignant lyrics about leprechauns and love and loss.
Irish folk music is so diverse, from rousing sea shanties to traditional songs about villains and villages, poets and prisons, castles, courtship, sea life and sailors. The Jeremiahs brought back memories of watching an Irish folk band playing in a bar in Ireland, a traditional Irish pub with a few pints of beer, clapping along to an Irish jig …
The next North Shropshire Folk night is on Saturday, 14th May at 8.00 pm featuring ‘The Outside Track’ – a band of 5 musicians hailing from Scotland, Ireland, and Cape Breton, who blend fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, whistle, step-dance and vocals with amazing dexterity.
For more information, future events and to book tickets visit www.northshropshirefolk.com
@northshropshirefolk @northshropfolk
@thejeremiahsmusic @thejeremiahsie
@outsidetrack
Published in the April edition of the Whitchurch Gossip