Listen to trad duo The Kennedy Sisters on this month’s music podcast: on Donegal’s music traditions, and plucking songs from the air.
Sinéad and Catríona Kennedy often play Donegal-style traditional tunes, but sometimes they’re originals.
Where do those songs come from? It’s like they’re hanging in the air, in a space, waiting to be plucked, says Sinéad. “I feel like tunes are kind of around, and you happen upon them.”
In this month’s Music at Marrowbone Books, the Kennedy Sisters chat with Martin Cook about the origins of their fiddle-playing, singing with neighbours – and, of course, they play and sing a little too.
And in their recent album, Nobody’s Coming to Save You, “The corruption of human morality is a constant theme.”
Gone is the hardman shtick, the macho bravado once associated with hip hop, rapper and producer Michael Ward, who goes by Mickzart. “We’re after something true.”
The chapel on the ground floor is too small for a theatre “but it's the kind of place where you could have recitals, a piano player or string quartet”, says Diego Fasciati, the executive director.
The musician says her new album, Draw the Outline, brought her “great solace and peace in writing it. I hope it can do the same for whoever needs it.”
