Here’s Us

We’ve been singing together from the cradle. Our lives have gone different ways at different times, but we’ve always managed to get back together again especially to sing at home or to perform from time to time.

We’ve gathered songs here we have not recorded before for the most part but that we’ve been singing for a long time and re-exploring in more recent times.

It was a joy to work with Seán Óg who ‘got’ our instinctual approach and helped bring out the best in us, we hope.

We have so much to be grateful for as we look back; the fun and music of our holidays in our father Hiúdaí’s homeplace in Ranafast, co. Donegal.

We learned and laughed a lot there with family and friends. Our mother Bríd’s beautiful voice is the key voice in our memory. She loved music of all varieties and never stopped singing to us.

Seo Muid

Bhain muid sult ar dóigh as an deis theacht le chéile chun na ceolta seo a thaifeadadh i gcuideachta Seán Óg Graham.

Tá ár n-aistear fhéin cheoil déanta ag an bheirt againn ach tá ár gcroi istigh sa cheol a dhéanann muid i gcuideachta a chéile.

Bhí muid ar ár suaimhneas agus ar ár ndícheall ag an am chéanna chun athbheatha a thabhairt do na hamhráin seo; cuid acu a bhfuil muid ag gabhail daofa le blianta fada agus cuid eile a tháinig chugainn de réir mar a thaistil muid an domhan.

Thóg sé corradh agus fiche bliain orainn an taifeadadh a dhéanamh ar chúis amháin nó eile ach tá sé déanta faoi dheireadh anois agus is muid atá sásta.

1. Cad é sin don té sin nach mbaineann sin dó
2. Once I Knew a Pretty Girl
3. Cailín deas cúiseach na mbó
4. Kouskit
5. Cumha an Fhile (The Poet’s Loneliness)
6. It’s Not In the Morning
7. No Come Again
8. Geaftaí Bhaile Buí
9. Eoin Búrcach
10. The Newry Highway Man

• Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill: piano, harmonium, synths, whistles, vocals
• Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill: vocals
• Seán Óg Graham: guitars, bouzouki, accordions, synths (wizardry)
• Niamh Dunne: fiddle, viola
• Conor McCreanor: double bass

All songs traditional, arranged by Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill

• Recorded and mixed by Seán Óg Graham at Bannview Studios, Portglenone, County Antrim.
• Mastering – Sam Proctor, Lismore Mastering
• Produced by Tríona & Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill and Seán Óg Graham
• Cover Drawing: Tríona Ni Dhomhnaill
• Layout & design: Mánus Goan
• Photography: Molly Keane
• Website Design: Nick Lethert

• More info at heresus.com