Fire Draw Near

By: Ian Lynch
  • Summary

  • Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms. https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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Episodes
  • FDN LVII
    Oct 31 2024
    Episode LVII is a grim Halloween special featuring some creepy favourites! Artwork is a German painting of the Danse Macabre, creator unknown. Tracklist John Carpenter – Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships Richard Dawson – Ghost of a Tree Paddy Glackin and Robbie Hannan – The Young Tom Ennis / The Maid at the Well John Goodluck – The Lover’s Ghost Pentangle – The Cruel Sister Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson – The Geese in the Bog / The Jig of the Dead Roky Erickson – I Walked with a Zombie Dimlaia – Goodnight Sweet Ghost Eddie Butcher – Saturday Night is Halloween Night Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor – Haunted The Kipper Family – All on the Shore Blood Axis & In Gowan Ring – Dead Men’s Slip-Jig Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad Jeannie Robertson – The Dublin Murder Ballad https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear
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    55 mins
  • Fair Margaret And Sweet William
    Sep 16 2024
    This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair Tracklist Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William Martin Howley – Knight William AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret Justus Begley – Lady Margaret Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear “Margaret’s Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909
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    56 mins
  • FDN LVI
    Aug 28 2024
    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. Pictured are the Belgian duo Tabernis, who open the episode. Tracklist Tabernis – Carmen Reginarum Róis – Caoine Charanjit Singh – Raga Bhairav Isa Gordon – What a Voice Seamas Hyland – Navan Road Nioclás Tóibín – Eochaill The Deadlians – Return to Fingal / Lord Mayo Dawn Ray'd – Requital Córas – George White’s Ancient Hostility – Immigration Van Greet – John Barleycorn
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    1 hr and 10 mins

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