More songs from my grandfather's house

Rostrevor, Northern Ireland
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Dear Friends

I hope you enjoyed my last CD – Farewell To Cold Winter.  I want to thank you so much for pitching in and pre - buying it and the various other incentives we came up with on our pitch here at Sponsume.  It was a very interesting year for Tom and myself as a result of starting it like that.  RTE filmed a really nice short documentary about our work here at Ballyneddan Cottage – you can watch the piece by clicking here.

I have been on an incredible journey over the past 2 albums – personally and professionally – revisiting the old songs I grew up with and taking them to new venues and to audiences in new countries.  Gradually I’ve been delving further into this rich back catalogue of songs that bridge the gap between the parlour songs of the 19th century and modern traditional Irish music and am settling into a style of singing which will hopefully bridge the gap in my own musical journey – from those old songs to the songs I’ve collected from modern Irish songwriters along the way. 

I would love if you could be involved again with this new CD – I don’t even know the title of it yet☺  - simply by pre ordering it here or by getting involved with some of the other fun incentives we’ve come up with.  We particularly enjoyed recording special request songs and indeed did some more throughout the year with personalised greetings recorded onto them.  

Greg and the team at Sponsume were so much help last year that we thought we’d come back to them again in 2012 and start our promotion on an auspicious date - 12 01 12.

So, thank you in advance for your help and let me wish you the blessings of the season for the coming year – may it be filled with love and joy and hopefully our paths will cross somewhere along the road.

You can read more about Tom’s and my work at my website – www.filcampbell.com
Or visit my Facebook Page – www.facebook.com/filcampbellmusic
There are some videos up on my You Tube channel
Or just drop me an email at fil@filcampbell.com to say hello and keep in touch.

Gramophone Records
Sunday, 5 February, 2012 - 16:26

I have been collecting gramophone records for years - particularly with old Irish songs on them.  This Christmas I got a present of a USB record deck and have been transferring all those old discs to the computer.  Before that I had been long listing and short listing songs for this CD for several months but after going through this collection I've narrowed down the selection of songs - and it has developed into a collection of womens' songs - not just songs that women sang, but those from a woman's point of view - from the Irish traditional and parlour music genres.   Again they are songs that were familiar to our parents and grandparents and that were sung to us whether we grew up in the country or in the town.  I hope you'll enjoy listening to them.

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