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The Haar

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1.	The King's Shilling 04:51	buy track
2.	The Green Fields of Canada 04:18	buy track
3.	Willlie Taylor 04:20	buy track
4.	Siúil a Rún 08:03	buy track
5.	My Lagan Love 04:37	buy track
6.	The Creggan White Hare 05:39	buy track
7.	Two Sisters 05:41	buy track
8.	The Emigrant's Farewell 06:55	buy track
9.	Craigie Hills 06:25	buy track

about

This is The Haar's debut album - released in June 2020.

It is reminiscent of the haar, a sea mist that rolls in from the east and west of the Irish and North Seas: fleeting, intabigle, headily thick, suddenly overwhelming and then unexpectedly clearing for a glimpse of precious sunlight. The band makes no plans, just lets the music create itself; the tracks on the album are the first and only versions, as unpredictable and ephemeral as the haar itself.

The band has its origins in a chance meeting between Adam Summerhayes (fiddler), Cormac Byrne (bodhrán) and traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery at a trad session at Craiceann Bodhrán Festival, Inis Oírr, resulting in an improvised live performance recorded by the shipwreck of the Plassey on the wild Atlantic seafront. It was to become typical of the unique ‘live reactive compositon’ that characterises their music.

With the addition of master accordionist Murray Grainger, they entered the studiowith no plans or arrangements, guided only by the live musical landscapes
they created – the music was recorded as it flowed, in the first and
only take.

Three masterful instrumentalists provide an improvised space from which Molly’s pure and unadulterated vocals can emerge.

The idea was to record Irish traditional songs tackling love, poverty and oppression - subjects that link the peoples of these islands. When they reach the studio, and their first notes ring out as a quartet, the music flows.

This is music that is not afraid to transcend borders - whilst recognisably
born of the tradi1onal musics that all members of the band have grown up
with and absorbed, it is unapologe1c in pushing at the edges in order to
create the band’s own unique and compelling sound.

credits

released June 5, 2020

Molly Donnery: vocals;
Cormac Byrne: bodhrán and percussion;
Murray Grainger: accordion;
Adam Summerhayes: fiddle.
All songs and lyrics traditional, except *verse 10 lyrics (Adam Summerhayes) and **lyrics (Joseph Campbell).
Produced and mixed by Murray Grainger, Adam Summerhayes and Cormac Byrne.
Engineered by Murray Grainger. Mastered by Jon Astley

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The Haar

The Haar combines the fresh talent of traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music circuit: Cormac Byrne (Instrumentalist of the Year 2019, FATEA Magazine Music Awards), Adam Summerhayes (‘a Paganini of the traditional violin’ fROOTS) and Murray Grainger (‘Gorgeous stuff’ BBC Radio 3). ... more

shows

Jun 20

Conway Hall

London, UK
Jun 21

Victoria Rooms

Taunton, UK
Jul 4

Powells Farm

Romsey, UK
Jul 12

Priddy Folk Festival

Wells, UK

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