This episode looks at the ballad The Golden Vanity / The Sweet Trinity aka The Turkish Reveille aka The Turkish Revoloo aka The Turkey-Rogherlee aka The Turkey Shivaree aka The Merry Golden Tree aka The Golden Willow Tree aka The Green Willow Tree aka The Golden Vallady aka The Golden Furnity aka The Golden Fenadier aka The Golden Victory aka The Golden Merrilee aka The Mary Golden Tree aka The Gallant Victory aka The Golden Vanitee aka The Gold China Tree aka The Yellow Golden Tree aka The Weep-Willow Tree aka The French Galilee aka The Green Willow Tree aka The Sweet Kumadee aka The Bold Trellitee aka The Bold Grandee aka The Lowland Sea aka The Pirate Ship. 

Image by Pamela Coleman Smith!!!

Tracklist:

Andy the Doorbum – The Turkish Reveille
Paul Clayton – The Turkish Reveille
Odetta – The Golden Vanity
The Carter Family – Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
Justus Begley – The Golden Willow Tree
Warde Ford – The Low Lands Low (Golden Willow Tree)
Almanac Singers – The Golden Vanity
Brothers Four – The Gallant Argosy
Martha Reid – The Golden Vanity
Duncan Williamson – The Golden Vanity
Bill Cameron – The Golden Vanity
Benjamin Britten – The Golden Vanity
Boudewijn de Groot – Noordzee
Assassin’s Creed – The Golden Vanity

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The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)

This is an audio recording of a lecture / performance I gave in the Shriver Hall Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore on the 6th of October 2022.

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The 'Child Ballad' in Ireland - Johns Hopkins University 06/10/2022

Fire Draw Near Episode XLI features 4 tracks called Trip to Ireland,  3 tracks with piping, 2 tracks called Foggy Mountain Breakdown, 1 track with dirty bits and loads more - such as Earl Scruggs playing banjo alongside a moog, Paddy Glackin playing fiddle alongside a synth, some madser playing techno alongside a fiddle tune and a load of Scottish women singing along to the beating of cloth.

Tracklist:

Liam O’Flynn – The Piper of the Embers / The Sixpenny Money
The Croppy Boy – Anne Byrne
Pierre Bensusan – Le Voyage Pour l’Irlande
John McSherry and Michael McGoldrick – The Trip to Ireland
Pádraigín Ní Úallacháin and Garry Ó Briain – Suamhailcí Samhailcí / Trip to Ireland
Fíona Ní Churraoin, Caitlín Ní Chualáin - Gugalaí Gug!
Captain Peacock – Trip to Ireland
Earl and Randy Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Gil Trythall – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Jolyon Jackson and Paddy Glackin – The Japanese Hornpipe
Kate Nicholson – Waulking Song
Pierre Bensusan – Heman Dubh
Beau James Wilding – Set Myself on Fire
Sean McAloon, Packie Fox and Hugh McCormack – The Lark in the Morning / Saddle the Pony
Harry Cox – She was a Rum One

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLI

Fire Draw Near Episode XLII is a moody frontline assemblage of traditional folk adjacent magic with new tracks from Jonny Dillon, A Clatter and Drone, Áit Ait, Cormorant Tree Oh and Eliza Carthy, recently discovered tracks from M(h)aol and Perinne Bourel as well as old time classics from John Griffin (the 5th Avenue Bus Man), Stefan Shkimba & Co., Cyril Biddick, the Young Tradition as well as none other than the legendary J.R. R. Tolkien.

Tracklist:

Perinne Bourel – Rigodon du Château d'Ancelle
A Clatter and Drone - The Day That Broke Winter
Jonny Dillon – Rose Gardens & Requiems
Áit Ait – Miss Brown
Mhaol – Oró Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile
J. R. R. Tolkien – Sam's Rhyme of the Troll
Cyril Biddick – Old Daddy Fox
The Young Tradition – Daddy Fox
John Griffin – The Real Old Mountain Dew
Stefan Shkimba & Co. – LemkoWedding pt 11
The Kossoy Sisters – Down in a Willow Garden
Cormorant Tree Oh – All Of It
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution – Whirly Whorl
Jonny Dillon – The Corridor Of The Heart

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLII

This episode looks at the ballad Molly Bawn aka Polly Vaughn aka The Shooting of His Dear aka The Fowler aka Peggy Baun aka Molly Bond aka Molly Banding aka Molly Vaughan aka At the Setting of the Sun aka The Shooting of His Dear aka As Jimmy Went A-Hunting.

Tracklist:

John Maguire – Molly Bawn Lowry
Elizabeth Cronin – Molly Bawn
Séamus Ennis – Molly Bawn
Robin Roberts – Molly Bawn
The Dubliners – Molly Bawn
The Swinging Swan – Molly Bawn
Harry Cox – The Fowler
Phoebe Smith – Molly Vaughan
Anne Briggs – Polly Vaughan
The Furrow Collective – Polly Vaughn
Marlais – Polly Vaughan
The Dillards – Polly Vaughn
Peter, Paul & Mary – Polly Von
Sally Sloan – Molly Baun Lavery

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Molly Bawn

Episode XLIII features songs of war, songs of love, songs of death, songs of the siren and songs of the Devil. 

Tracklist:

Michael Gallagher – The Plains of Boyle / The Leitrim Fancy
Brìghde Chaimbeul - Carry Them With Us - Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom (I Am Disposed of Mirth)
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajić, Dragana Tomić and Obrad Milić
- The Battle at Mackov Kamen
Maria W. Horn & Sara Parkman – Till Margaretha
Isa Gordon – Love is Teasing
Paddy Shine – Another Song To The Siren
Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian – Bayeh Bayeh Suite (Narrative to Seyed Arash Shahriari)
Nathan Salsburg – X
The Mary Wallopers – The Night the Guards Raided Oweny's
Blood on Satan’s Claw OST – Main Theme
Tommy Reck – The Kilfrush / the Trip to Durrow

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLIII

This episode looks at the ballad Young Ramble Away aka Derry Down Fair aka Brimbledown Fair aka Burlington Fair aka Brocklesby Fair.

Tracklist

Frank Purslow & John Pearse – Young Ramble Away
The Young Tradition – Derry Down Fair
Chapter Three – Ramble Away
Al O’Donnell – Ramble Away
Jean Redpath – Rambleaway
Derek Sarjeant & Hazel King – Ramble Away
George Withers – Brimbledown Fair
Tommy Tourish – Ramble Away
Mel, Mel and Julian – Ramble Away
Johnny Flynn – Rambleaway
Joe Hickerson – Ramble Away
Tattiebogle – Rambleaway

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Young Ramble Away

Episode XLIV takes a look at versions of the traditional songs that made their way onto Lankum's fourth album False Lankum, as well as a cello version of A Stór Mo Chroí, a song by Genoese Anarchist Fabrizio De André and a recent anti-racist ballad from New Zealand!

Tracklist

Finn – A Stór Mo Chroí
Fabrizio De André – Un Blasfemo (Dietro Ogni Blasfemo C'è Un Giardino Incantato)
Jean Ritchie – Go Dig My Grave
Died For Love – Jasper Smith
Gordon Bok – Clear Away in the Morning
Cormac Begley – Master Crowley's / The Roscommon
Francie and Mickey Byrne – Master Crowley's (Miss Patterson's)
The Deadlians – Newcastle
Luke Cheevers – The Waterford Sea Captain
Frank Feeney – Lord O’Bore
Beanie Entwistle and Joe Yorke – Monday Morning
Sammy from New Zealand – The Battle of Wellington

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLIV

Alexis Zoumbas – Doina
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Eileanóir na Rún
Unknown - Nuvenapreghiera Per La Novena di Natale
Amelia Dawley, Mary Moran – Gullah Song
Group Of Men From Andros Island – Dig My Grave
X-Seamen’s Institute – Santiano
Sarah Ghriallais – An Sceilpín Draighneach 
Pererin - Llongau Caernarfon
Maxime Martelot, Aude Giuliano – La Chanson de Craonne
Metro Radomsky – Baryshnia
A Cantata Di Li Pasturi – Pastorale
Planxty – The Well Below the Valley

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLVIII

Episode L was recorded in a parking lot aka car park on the outskirts of Austin, Texas in the sweltering heat. Join me as I attempt to articulate what it's like to reach the 50th episode of Fire Draw Near. This episode features tracks that are actually new, tracks that are new to me and tracks that I hope are new to you. 

Tracklist 

Tenores di Bitti – Ite m'Importa sa Vida (ballu lestru)
Swan Arcade – Babylon
Pádraic Keane, Páraic Mac Donnchadha & Macdara Ó Faoláin – Elizabeth Kelly's Delight / The First Slip / Hardiman the Fiddler
Sallows – The Unfortunate Lass
Chirgilchin – Lonely Man
The Critics Group – My Husband's Got No Courage In Him
Nihiloxica – Endongo
Frank Purslow and John Pearse – Rap A Tap Tap
John Francis Flynn – Mole In The Ground
ØXN – Love Henry
Paddi Benson, Grace Lemon & James Patrick Gavin  - A Primer

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Fire Draw Near Episode L

Episode LI is a spooky Halloween special coming straight from the swamps of Louisiana to steal your soul away. This episode features guest presenter Summer Newman of Holy Locust fame and showcases some of the creepiest traditional tunes and songs, rambling digressions on the calendar custom of Samhain / Halloween in Irish folk and fairy lore as well as some Dungeon Synth and experimental tracks for good measure.

Tracklist

Paul Miles and His Red Fox Chasers – Did You Ever See The Devil, Uncle Joe
The Voice Squad – I Am Stretched On Your Grave
Mick O’Brien & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh – An Manglam / The Fairy Reel / I Have No Money
Ruskavellas – Ballad of the Twelve Marys
Swan Arcade – Go from My Window
Maire O'Sullivan – The Fairy Lullaby
Dean Gitter – The Suffolk Miracle
Mag Doyle – The Banshee (story)
Micho Russell – The Banshee (reel)
Dónal Maguire – Willie O
Sunken Grove – Upon a Hill, Fairy Folk are Gathering
Len Graham – Sweet William's Ghost
Rónán Galvin – Taibhse Chonaill
The Copper Family – Babes in the Wood
Eddie Noack – Psycho
Matmos – Zealous Order Of Candied Knights

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FDN LI

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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