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Thread #64390   Message #1052497
Posted By: Mark Dowding
12-Nov-03 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: Mark Dowding - New CD
Subject: Mark Dowding - New CD
My latest CD is all but ready to escape onto an unsuspecting public.
It's called "A Mon Like Harry - The songs of Harry Boardman" and features mainly songs from Harry's book "Folk Songs and Ballads of Lancashire" with one or two other songs that were recorded after the book was published. This is a joint production between myself and Chris Harvey-Pollington of Cock Robin Music and has been something we've thought of doing for a while now.
It should be available just after new year once we've tidied sleeve notes up and Chris has finished mastering the CD.

I'm singing the songs and playing banjo, concertina and mandolin, Jenny Shotliff is playing fiddle, Chris is playing accordion on a couple of tracks and adding some chorus along with Alison Younger.

There are 18 tracks some of which are:

The Hand Loom Weavers' Lament
The Merry Little Doffer
The Manchester Canal
Welcome Bonny Brid
With Henry Hunt We'll Go
Bowton's Yard
Handloom v Powerloom

Inevitably when we mentioned to people what we were doing we got asked if we were putting particular tracks on it. Volume 2 is probably not far off!

More details on my website HERE

Cheers

Mark