Newcomer

by Gráinne Brady

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Newcomer is the second single, and title track of Gráinne's forthcoming solo album. Due for release this summer, the album was inspired by the novel 'The Rat-Pit' by Irish writer Patrick MacGill. The story follows a young Donegal woman, Norah Ryan who, upon emigrating to Scotland as a teenager, was vulnerable to poverty, sexual exploitation, and great emotional loss. In this part of the tale, Norah gives birth to a baby boy.

lyrics

Love

Love will live while the pale stars glow, while the world shall last,
On the present hopes, and in hours of woe, on a dreamy past,
Love will live, while the flowers bloom, and the meadows wave;
Nor yet be quenched by the charnel tomb – the ghastly grave;
For o'er the tomb and the silver stars, to the gates above
The soul will seek in the great Afar the Endless Love.
-Patrick MacGill (1889-1963)

credits

released June 5, 2020
Music written and arranged by Gráinne Brady with words by Patrick MacGill

Gráinne Brady - fiddle
Tina Jordan Rees - flute
Michael Biggins - piano
Innes White - guitar
Seonaid Aitken - violin
Sarah Leonard - viola
Su-a Lee - cello
Christine McGinley - French horn
Jack Houston - spoken word

Recorded and mixed by Mike Vass in GloWormRecording and Rusty Squash Horn Studios

Mastered by Peter Beckmann at TechnologyWorks

Artwork by Somhairle MacDonald

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Gráinne Brady Glasgow, UK

Irish musician and composer based in Glasgow.

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"...engaging from the outset" - Folk Radio UK

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