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Howth Roots and Blues Festival Presents - Muireann Bradley

"I Kept These Old Blues" is Muireann's first album. Most of these tunes were originally recorded by the great blues men and women who were making records from the 1920s and 1930s right up in some cases to the early 1970s. She has also found inspiration for the renditions recorded here in the playing of some of the musicians who began recording this music in the 1960s and later, and who in some cases learned at the feet of the greats. Many of these guitarists played pivotal roles in the 1960s blues revival and subsequent “rediscovery” of many of the greats of country blues.

Muireann grew up steeped in these old blues in the hills overlooking the valley of the River Finn just outside the town of Ballybofey in County Donegal. Her father would play this music constantly at home and wherever they went in the car and talked about it endlessly whether anyone was listening or not, telling stories about the lives of these musicians as if they were legend, mythology or the evening news.

Each individual track on this album was recorded live in the studio and represents one entire take with her singing and backing herself up on guitar simultaneously. Most are either first or second takes. Nothing has been added or taken away, no overdubs or modern recording tricks of any kind have been used at all so at least in some respects this album has been recorded in the same way as those classics of the 1920s and 1930s.

Ticket Information

General Admission: €32.50 (Incl. Booking Fee) 

Unreserved seating.