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FDN LXVII Aug 31, 2026

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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 episode was an absolute pleasure to put together and showcases that there is so much great music out there in the folk and traditional worlds, from the straight up 'pure drop' to the weirder material. Please enjoy responsibly X Tracklist Nathan Gourley and Joey Abarta (feat. Owen Marshall) – The Gaelic Club / Banks of Newfoundland / The Lark on the Strand Mícheál Quinn – Another Man’s Wedding Sara Parkman – Salikons Rosor Sara Parkman – Dickapolskan e. Einar Britt Tim Lyons – Van Dieman's Land Rattling Ark – Coleraine Jig Dolores Keane & John Faulkner – Lowlands of Holland Clive Woolf – The Emigrant The Woolfs – The Girl From The North Country Radie Peat – Still I Love Him https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

The Old Man from Lee Aug 10, 2026

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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 Came o'er the Croft aka The Auld Carle aka the Dottered Auld Carle aka I'll Not Have Him aka The Old Man from Over the Sea aka His Old Grey Beard Kept Waggin' aka Overshoes and Leggin's aka Old Gum Boots and Leggin's aka The Old Black Booger aka The Old Man aka The Baillie of Berwick aka Old Grey Beard. Artwork by Stag and Serpent Tracklist Uncle Eck Dunford – Old Shoes & Leggins Otis High – Old Gray Beard A-Flappin' Betty Garland – Old Gum Boots and Leggings Lawrence Older – Old Shoes and Leggings Jeannie Robertson – The Dottered Auld Carle Pipe Major Bill Hepburn - Leaving Port Askaig Frankie Armstrong – The Old Man from over the Sea Jane Turiff – Wi His Grey Baird Newly Shaven Avice Clarke – Head a Nodding Gordon Hall – Old Grey Noddle Grace Notes – Old Man from Lee Jon Wilks – There was an Old Man Came Over the Sea https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

LXVI Jun 08, 2026

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Episode LXVI concentrates on iterations of the traditional within a modern context. At some times it is a soft embrace, at others a collision. There are songs and tunes from many parts of the world. It is a journey. Don't be scared. Caitlin Finley and Will Woodson – The Plains of Boyle - Lawson's Doireann Glackin & Sarah Flynn – Mrs Galvin's Hornpipe - Grace's Favourite Barren – Sonny's Mazurka Aoife Nic Diarmada – Liam Ó Raghallaigh Teppana Jänis & Arja Kastinen – Vanha Valssi Kapela Kotra – Zialony Haj - Зялёны Гай Jim Ghedi – The Hungry Child Sam Grassie – Return to Fingal Macdara Yeates – De May Bush The Standing Stones featuring Iona Zajac and Daragh Lynch – Twa Sisters Nuovo Canzoniere Partigiano – The Partisan Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson – Willie Taylor's March - The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

The Dark Eyed Sailor May 26, 2026

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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 Dark Eyed Sailor Fred Jordan – The Dark Eyed Sailor Walter Pardon – The Dark Eyed Sailor Lou Killen – The Dark Eyed Sailor Steeleye Span – The Dark Eyed Sailor Kate Doherty (Denery) – Dark Eyed Sailor Christy Moore – The Dark Eyed Sailor Luke Kelly – The Dark Eyed Sailor Michael Barden – The Dark Eyed Sailor Andrew King and Brown Sierra – The Dark Eyed Sailor The Norman Luboff Choir – The Dark Eyed Sailor https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXV Mar 27, 2026

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Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes. Tracklist Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla Butterfly / Tranquility in Tureencahill Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely - The Price of the Pig Vidd – Stor sak om världen hatar mig Sarah Makem – I Courted a Wee Girl Cormac Cannon, Lamond Gillespie and John Blake – Bunker Hill / The Hare's Paw Nellie Weldon – My Love is a Well Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn – The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí Jimmy Crowley – Johnny Jump Up Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further Into The Fire / Juliann Johnson Patrick Boyle – Clasped To The Pig Topette – Bal Limousines - A Bastien / Les Maries Nimf – Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXIV Dec 20, 2025

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This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X https://www.mickmoloneyfilm.com/ Tracklist Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung Folk Och Rackare – Bältet Emma Capponi – Small Birds Whistle Dorothy Carter – The King of Glory The Johnsons – The Dublin Jack Of All Trades Mick Moloney – McNally's Row Of Flats Mick Moloney & Joe McKenna – Sean Reid's Favourite / Toss the Feathers Donal Finn – The Ballad of Pat the Chief Clod – Scrumping and Rumping Mardi Gras Indians – Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band The Trojans – Gaelic Ska Jimmy O’Brien Moran – All The Way To Galway / Jenny Put The Kettle On Cití Seáin Ní Chuinneagáin – Bá Phroclaise Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan – Báthadh Bhroclaise / Sliabh Mis / Whiskey-O-Roudelum-Row Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along The Road https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXIII Sep 15, 2025

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FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition. Tracklist NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad Wootten Family – Ortonville Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea) Northampton Harmony – Despair Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die? Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace Landless – Doomsday NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXII Sep 09, 2025

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I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers, fighters, outlaws, thieves and revolutionaries. Art by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. X Tracklist; Seán McKeon – The Salamanca / Trim the Velvet Tealeaf – Bone Lace Weaver Jason Rouse – Snug in the Blanket / The Fisherman’s Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans Liam Weldon – James Connolly Seán McKeon – James Connolly Francy Devine – Sam Hall / Le Ramoneur / Skarzhour Chiminalieu Luke Cheevers – Abe Carman Daoirí Farrell – Valentine O' Hara John Faulkner and Dolores Keane – Allan Tyne Of Harrow Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Sovay The Kipper Family – The Male Female Highwayman A.L. Lloyd – Jim Jones at Botany Bay Jerry O'Reilly – The Carmagnoles Ruth Hazleton – Tri-Coloured House Beau James Wilding – The Lowlands of Holland RL O'Mealy – Donegal Reel Jason Rouse – The Maid at Mourneshore https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXI Jun 25, 2025

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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 quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge. Tracklist Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa Gout – Newcastle Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Blackwater Side Jun 20, 2025

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This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries. Tracklist Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside Harry Upton – In Wayward Town Wash Nelson – Last May Morn Spriguns – Blackwaterside Landless – Blackwaterside https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

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