Seeking Contact Info for Rita Connolly

Subject: Seeking Contact Info for Rita Connolly
From: GUEST,william pint & felicia dale
Date: 01 Apr 17 - 03:49 PM

Hello Mudcatters!
Help!
We are trying to reach Irish Songwriter Rita Connolly so we can pay her royalties and get permission to record her song, 'Valparaiso' on our next CD.
Websites about her and her recordings have not included contact information.
'Valparaiso' is not to be found at the Harry Fox agency database (the usual source for mechanical licenses in the US.)
If anyone here knows how to reach her -- please let us know. We'd really appreciate it.
Many thanks!
WP & FD

Subject: RE: Seeking Contact Info for Rita Connolly
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Apr 17 - 11:31 PM

Hi, William and Felicia -
Rita Connolly's record label is Tara Music. Here's a link to their contact page: http://www.taramusic.com/mail.htm.

By the way, I see that her husband is Shaun Davey. Now I know why she was the singer on "The Deer's Cry" and so many other Shaun Davey recordings. Well, that and the fact that she's a wonderful singer.

-Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-

Subject: RE: Seeking Contact Info for Rita Connolly
From: GUEST,william pint
Date: 02 Apr 17 - 02:24 PM

Thanks very much Joe -- much appreciated.
I fired off an email just now.

Subject: RE: Seeking Contact Info for Rita Connolly
From: GUEST,bigJ
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 05:26 AM

The song is on Rita's eponymous CD on Tara 3029 of 1992 where the lyrics are printed in the booklet and credited as "Trad arr.Connolly/ Davy". The lyrics are pretty much the same as those credited to John Jacob Niles in the Mudcat song database.