[ The Foggy Dew ]
  
 
Here are details on the new recording of The Foggy Dew, made in 2006 to mark the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. You can read the full press release below, and a sample of the track is available for download.		  



  Press Release

Musicians and actor get together to record new version of The Foggy Dew for the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

Based on a re-working of their recording of the rebel song, The Foggy Dew, on Music for Whistle & Guitar (Mandala Discs/Pressure Records 2000), Cormac Breatnach (Whistle) and Martin Dunlea (Guitar) joined forces with Composer Roger Doyle (Piano) and actor Donal Kelly to create a new version of this famous rebel song as their contribution to the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

Running to approximately 5:47 minutes this new version embodies the sounds of marching men and women in Dublin city with cannon and gun shot, all through the medium of music. Commencing with Doye's piano the tone is set, and Donal O'Kelly leads us into 2 verses of The Foggy Dew followed by extracts from the 1916 Proclamation including Padraig Pearse's "Ní tír gan teanga" (without its own language, Ireland is deficient).

The Foggy Dew (arranged by Breatnach and Dunlea with intro by Doyle on solo piano), recorded at Silverwood Studios, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, April 2006. Engineered and mixedon Protools by Gavin Ralston. Mastered in Westland Studios. Produced by Breatnach and Dunlea with assistance by Ralston.

Cormac Breatnach plays low whistle
Martin Dunlea plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and electric bass wth effects
Roger Doyle plays piano and synth.
Gavin Ralston plays shakers and tambourine
Donal O'Kelly: vocals




Background

In Songs of the County Down, by Cathal O'Doyle, the author is given as Canon Charles O'Neill, a parish priest of Kilcoo and later Newcastle. "In 1919 he went to Dublin and attended a sitting of the first Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament). He was moved by the number of members whose names were answered during roll call by "faoi ghlas ag na Gaill" (locked up by foreigners) and resolved to write a song in commemoration of the Easter Rebellion". The music is from a manuscript that was in possession of Kathleen Dallat of Ballycastle. That manuscript gives Carl Hardebeck as the arranger. It was recorded in 1913 by John McCormack.



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Track # Title Size Length Format
- The Foggy Dew 1.09MB 01:09 mp3

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