Aisling Lyons

In this, our one-year anniversary episode, I'm going to be playing some of the best folk and roots music from some of the best folk and roots musicians from around the world.

including Fairport Convention, Riona Connolly, La Famille Le Blanc, Niall McCabe, Sam Carter, Casey Jones, Press Gang Mutiny, Damien Dempsey, Aisling Lyons, Danny Burns and more.

Yes, it's one year since we first unleashed Roots and Branches in the public domain.

So let's kick things off for our second year with La Portime Souriant from French-speaking Canada.

Fish the flaming anchor up.

Outro Music whiskey oh johnny oh the mudhook is in sight there's a hell of a way to the girls that wait and the old man tuck it light Press gang mutiny with Old Mick.

How about we listen to some good harp music now? Aisling Lyons is an award-winning Irish harpist, concertina player and composer from County Clare.

Here she is playing three tunes, The Smasher by Jax Medley and two of her own compositions, With You in Whitby and Room 240. piano plays softly Thank you.

Patricia Ford wrote the text.

We have Aisling Lyons on harp, Mick O'Brien on pipes, a.k.a. Dad, myself on fiddle and Violin, Cormac on piano and the National Symphony Orchestra with Cairnie Ring conducting.

And as it happens, my brother, also called Cormac, is in the National Symphony Orchestra.

So it's a new piece about the magical harp of Dagda, which, of course, is the harp that can put people to sleep.