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Ireland Bridge CD & Free Sampler
Ireland Bridge CD (2008). Available to buy here from our online shop
Track Listing:
1 Ireland Bridge
Trip to Greystoke/Teds Fingers/Francie Donnelans*
NPS Annual Concert 2016
I was delighted to play at the NPS Annual Concert held in the Mining Institute building – well worth a visit if you are in NEWCASTLE
We got to play in Neville Hall houses the memorial to the Institute’s first President, Nicholas Wood, an outstanding Victorian Library resplendent filled with superb stonework, redolent with exquisite carved stone, wood and paintings with a beautifully decorated ceiling, a vast glass roof and filled with furniture designed for the library in 1872. Below the Library is the Edwardian Lecture Theatre, modeled on the Royal Institution in London and constructed in deep red Cuban Mahogany. Wow!
Russian Drinking Song: Аквариум – Стаканы (Юбилейный)
Guesting with Aquarium at one of their Great Jubilee Concerts, in St Petersburg, April 2012
Birog Set of Jigs – 2010
Birog (Frances O’Rourke, Pat O’Reilly and Becky) playing Hardiman the Fiddler, a Fig for a Kiss, and Fraher’s jigs
DIDIKAI
We are very pleased to announce that DIDIKAI are currently taking bookings for 2017 and 2018..
Please contact us here for further information..
Didikai present a broad and diverse range of material with their enthralling duo featuring the sultry vocal talents of Amy-Rose and the musical finesse of Becky Taylor. They showcase an amazing breadth of line-up encompassing uilleann pipe and fiddle duets, songs accompanied by uilleann pipes, duet concertina, guitar and fiddle (but not all at the same time!), duelling fiddles, even some northumbrian small-piping delivered with more than a hint of humour and style.
From this enigmatic and highly original due you can expect anything from self-penned songs to traditional Gypsy ballads, rousing chorus songs and catchy tune sets. You are most certainly guaranteed not to get bored!
“Another great night of music at The Moorcock last night, For all of you who didn’t make it, DIDIKAI (Becky Talor & Amy-Rose Atkinson) gave us a night to remember – – – if you like beautifully crafted traditional music, this multi-instrumental duo will not disappoint – – – and Amy-Roses’ voice must be one of the best we have heard at The Moorcock. Thank you both, we will certainly want you to come back.” Andrew Clayton, bookings organiser, The Moorcock Crew.
“Superb Music” – Mike Harding (October 2012)
Here’s a DIDIKAI video from Youtube courtesy of Joe Stead (Kimbers Men) where we played a short Cameo spot when Calderdale Folk Concerts presented Vin Garbutt. The song was a brand new one written by Amy called ‘Broken Bindings’.
Blast from the past!
Middlesbrough Poly Folk Club circa 1983 with Tom McConville and Vin Garbutt.
A set of reels from the Irish Sea Sessions 2010
A set of reels from the Irish Sea Sessions 2010, recorded live at the Royal Philharmonic Hall Liverpool.
Birog – ‘Liz Carroll’s Jigs’ – 2010
Birog (Frances O’Rourke, Pat O’Reilly and Becky) playing Liz Carroll’s Jigs – Princess Nancy & Out on the Road
Solo Piping from Burg Fürsteneck -2009
Solo piping on the old set in the final concert on the Tionol of the German Uilleann Pipes Gesellschaft on Burg Fürsteneck, Easter 2009 – it just about held together!