Fish Records - Emma Sweeney

01.	The Singing Kettle	play pause stop Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
02.	The Star of Munster
03.	The Golden Fiddle
04.	The Flying Statue
05.	The Mountain Top
06.	Endless Thoughts
07.	A Place To Be	play pause stop Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
08.	The Rose In The Heather
09.	The Wheels of The World
10.	The Reed that Bends With The Storm	play pause stop Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
11.	Elk River Blues
12.	Pangea

This album is released on 21 January 2013 and is available to pre-order now.

Rising talent Emma Sweeney has marked an outstanding year with the release of her debut album, Pangea. Emma s trad Irish background is the cornerstone of this exciting debut, but the Manchester-based fiddler integrates a select fusion of world influences that accentuate her truly unique style and approach. Pangea brings together a diverse mixture of trad jigs and reels, fluidly blended with Emma s own compositions. It also features a bluegrass waltz, an Indian-influenced piece and an original take on Nick Drake s A Place to Be. The album features a spectacular cast of contributors, including Matheu Watson, Duncan Lyall, Mike McGoldrick, Matt Griffin, Manus Lunny, John Doyle, Donald Shaw, Ian Fletcher, Johnny Hulme and John Joe Kelly. Emma was introduced to Irish music aged seven, taking tin whistle classes under Sligo s Marian Eagan. At ten years of age she progressed onto the fiddle, taught by Colin Farrell and later, Andy Dinan. Her potential flourished further under the mentorship of Mike McGoldrick, who encouraged and tutored her in whistle and fiddle. Although Emma s career is young, she has amassed an abundance of live experience performing alongside a whole raft of revered traditional musicians, including Dick Gaughan, Cara Dillon, Sam Lakeman, Ed Boyd, Luke Daniels, Donald Shaw, Eamon McElholm, Ian Fletcher, Mike McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly, Andy Dinan, Tony Byrne, Matt Griffin, Mick O brien, Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, Donal Lunny, Martin O Connor and John Joe Kelly. A finalist at the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2003, Emma s devotion to music has taken her across Europe and beyond. At the age of eighteen, she travelled to Kolkata, India, where she founded a project teaching the tin whistle to 300 street children and orphans from the city s slums. Her debut EP, The Other Crossing, released in late 2010, received excellent reviews and airplay, including Mike Harding on BBC Radio 2. This led to her coming second runner up in the 2010 Tradition Award, run by FATEA magazine.

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Emma Sweeney - Pangea

Emma Sweeney