‘Songs
from the Photograph © John Heeneman In 2006 Paul was invited
to Dublin to play some of his songs as part of the ‘East Wall Summer
Festival’ by the residents’ association. Over the next few years Paul
continued to visit East Wall and North Wall regularly, playing for the
Women’s Club and at the local primary school, all the time collecting stories
and material for songs. Meanwhile he performed these songs on the folk club
circuit in the This period
culminated in the book and double CD project ‘Songs from the |
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This book and double CD is a collection of 40 songs that
Paul has written about the part of The book and CD were
launched in |
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Over the last year and a half the ‘North Lotts’ has been
performed all over The Netherlands in various guises, a ‘baroque’ setting
with two violins and flutes and appropriate arrangements, folk setting with
Uilleann pipes and fiddle and in an intimate setting of guitar and flute. The
songs have proven to be musically versatile and the subject matter has shown
itself to be of universal appeal, judging by the amount of Dutch audiences
merrily singing along to ‘Bingo Lill’ and ‘Me Handsome Stevedore’. |
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