Episode 1 I Lár an Aonaigh

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Your dreams are starting to come true, with the release of the EP.

It's done great things for you. You were the musician in residence

at the Cathedral Quarter Festival recently.

You're doing a lot more gigs around Belfast, but travelling a bit, too?

Yes, I have been. Like you said, I was the musician in residence

at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and I'm about to head off

to America now, for about three weeks, to work.

And, yeah, I've been travelling. I've done gigs in Germany and, yeah,

I've been really busy and had some amazing opportunities.

Your background is primarily in traditional music,

so how does the trad mix with what you're doing now?

I continue to do both, alongside each other.

I'm hopefully going to do some recording very soon

of both my traditional and some new contemporary songs.

Yeah, I continue to act and play and try and do the two together.

# When I wake up in the morning, love

# And the sunlight hurts my eyes... #

THEY CONVERSE IN SPANISH

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I could blame our partin'

# For the fact that I'm not startin' all my mornings

# At the time they oughta start

# And I could summon up the sisterhood cry

# Lead me out of widowhood But that is melodrama

# On my part

# I could blame my grievin'

# On the fact that I've been leavin' us

# Behind the ones we were when this began

# But I have rose-tinted us ruby

# And I've conjured up a new me

# Who went freely to her newly moulded man

# But we bent and we broke

# And I meant what I spoke

# And the blame game does not produce a winner

# We went as far as we could go

# We had to go that far to know

# That we had nowhere left to aim

# And no-one left to blame

# But the moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# The moon's wax and wane And the turn of the tide

# And I could blame my parents for my vices so inherent

# That I cannot shake them Much as I may try

# But how much have I inherited

# Or picked up since I was a kid

# That nature-versus-nurture paradigm

# And I could blame wrong turns that I'd take

# And decisions that my head makes

# And trace each error right back to my heart

# And is it broken cos you toyed with it

# Or was it formed with a little split

# That grows each year further and further apart?

# But we love and we lose

# And we lash out and we bruise

# And the name of the game's just the livin'

# We go as far as we can go

# We've got to go that far to know

# That we have everything to gain

# By knowing we can blame

# The moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# The moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# And so I look to karma And if I try not to harm another

# I will not be harmed by anything

# If I salute the magpie Knock on wood

# Will I be doing any good?

# Am I strung-up or do I pull the string?

# Will the fact I cling too tightly to my dreams

# Come back and bite me

# Am I trying to make a science of an art?

# And will the very fate I wish to woo

# Be the one that I am due

# By thinkin' I can steer this crazy god

# But I'll live and learn

# And I'll light and I'll burn

# Till the flame simmers down

# To a spark

# I'll go as far as I can go

# I've got to go that far to know

# That I have everything to gain

# By knowing I can't train

# The moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# The moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# And I never said

# I never said it was your fault

# I only wanted to blame

# Someone

# I never said

# It was your fault

# I only wanted

# The moon's wax and wane And the turn of the tide

# It's the moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# It's the moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide

# It's the moon's wax and wane

# And the turn of the tide. #

APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

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