Sarah Underhill

Ian Worpole

 

Banshanachie & Friends

 

Music in the Celtic/Folk Tradition

 

Based in the Hudson Valley, New York State, USA

 

Calendar:

 

Appearing monthly with Ian Worpole  4th Sundays 4-7 at the Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale NY  www.rosendalecafe.com  Next Date:     October 25

 

Sun. Oct. 11 3:30 pm, McGrath's Pub, East Durham NY. Appearing as part of the "Joe 'Banjo' Burke Irish Music Fest"

Sun. Oct. 18 10 am, Workshop on "Traditonal Songs of Social Protest" at Eistedfodd ["Gathering of the Bards'], Friar Truck Inn, Catskill NY

Sat. Nov. 21  8 pm.Woodstock Library Benefit w/ Ian Worpole

 

Recent Gigs:

 

Sun. April 19, 2 pm. Dennis P. McHugh Public Library, Piermont NY

 

Sat./Sun. June 20 & 21 Clearwater's Hudson River Revival, Croton NY

Workshop 11am Sat.  with Melissa Ortquist and Friends : "Sisters in Song"

 

 

  "Sarah Underhill & Ian Worpole host a traditonal Session and fellow Irish musicians are cordially invited to bring instruments and sit in. Sarah is an acclaimed Hudson Valley singer, and Ian and friends join her to provide a warm three hours of music. The audience is attentive and appreciative and the sound is modestly amplified.

   'These guys transport you to a pub in Dublin where you relish the company of your neighbors and the spirit of the music and ale as well'- Cafe Guide"

- description from Rosendale Cafe website

 

 

Performed at the  Pinewoods Folk Club, NYC, Fri. November 30 , 2007. www.folkmusicny.org  

PR blurb for above concert:

"Sarah Underhill is a resident of Kerhonkson, a small town in Ulster County, New York. She is known throughout the region as "Banshanachie", Gaelic for "Woman Bard", because of her vast repertoire of traditional songs from Scotland, Ireland, and Northern England. Sarah augments these with songs from the Hudson Valley and elsewhere in North America, as well as with contemporary songs composed in traditional style by writers such as Sandy Denny and Archie Fisher. Don't be surprised if she even performs a song or two she has written herself. Long active with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Sarah has appeared many times at the Clearwater's annual Hudson River Revival Festival. This will be her first concert for the Folk Music Society of New York. Ian Worpole of Woodstock, NY , will provide vocal and guitar accompaniment."

 

Contact at: underhval@hvi.net

 

4 CD Recordings:

 

"Chimaera"

Recorded 2004 at  LedgeRock Studios, Rhinecliff NY

 

Playlist:

1.  Sweet  Rosemary/Sandy Denny

2. The Hedge School/Sarah Underhill

3. Dark-Eyed Molly/ Archie Fisher

4.Witch of the Westmoreland/Archie Fisher

5.Berries in the Hedge/Sarah Underhill

6.Beeswing/Richard Thompson

7. Banks of the Nile/Trad.

8.Blackwaterside/Trad.

9.Silkie of Sule Skerry/Trad.

10.Hole in the Ground/Sarah Underhill

11.Grandfather's Trees/Sarah Underhill

12.Claudy Banks/Trad.

13.Dark's Lullaby/Trad.

14.The Good in Living/Steve Sellors

15.Wexford Lullaby/Trad.

 

"Sarabande: Celtic Wedding Double Album"

Recorded live by Dan Einbender August 1998. MIxed and edited by Hans Ten Broeke at Red Cottage Recording

 

Playlist:

Disc 1

 

1.Far Away in Australia

2.Flower of Sweet Strabane

3.Lark in the Morning

4.Bonnie Labouring Boy

5.Blackberry Blossom

6. Fiddle Tunes

7.When I Was a Fair Maid

8.Green Rocky Road

9.Wedding Dress

10.Pride of Glencoe

11.Tunes

12. P Stands For Paddy

13.Roseville Fair/ Bill Staines

14.Children of Darkness/Richard Farina

15.Give Yourself to Love/Kate Wolf

 

Disc 2

 

1.Flute Riffs I

2.Flute Riffs II

3.Mary & the Soldier

4.Mingalay Boat Song/Hugh Roberton

5.Water is Wide

6.Mairi's Wedding

7. Earl of Talhousie's Happy Return to Scotland

8.Tunes

9.Tunes

10.Wild Mountain Thyme

11.Queen Among the Heather

12.Morning Star/Dan Einbender

13.Star of the County Down

14.Witch of the Westmoreland/Archie Fisher

15. She Moved Through the Fair

16. I'll Tell Me Ma

 

"Sarah's Rambles"

 

Fifteen A Capella tracks recorded by Hans Ten Brooke/Red Cottage Recordings

 

1.It's With Kitty I'll Go For a Ramble

2.Lay Down Your Weary Tune/Bob Dylan

3.Cool of the Day/Jeanne Ritchie

4.Emigrant's Farewell

5.First of My Rambles

6.Kerry Hills

7.Ploughboy

8.Pro-Choice Song/Sarah Underhill

9.Recruited Collier

10.Road to Clady

11.Sweet Bann Water

12.Water Prayer [Hole in the Ground] /Sarah Underhill

13.Wee Lass on the Brae

14.Whistling Thief [incomplete]

15.Ye Rambling Boys of Pleasure

 

"Making Waves"

recorded live at WJFF, Jeffersonville NY , June 1994 with Dan Einbender, Dan Harper, Linda Richards & Tim Russell

 

1.Allegheny- trad.

2.Bambu-  Dave Von Ronk

3.Bramble & the Rose - Barbara Keith

4.Children of Darkness- Richard Farina

5.Lord Franklin's Lament- trad.

6.Golden Vanity- trad.

7.Gwen & the Fire- Fred Small

8.Jug of Punch- trad.

9.Living on the River- Bill Rasmussen

10. Mingalay Boat Song- Hugh Roberton

11.Morgan Medley

12.Outward Bound- Tom Paxton

13. Planxty Jimenez- Dan Harper

14.Sailor's Prayer- Rod McDonald

15.She Moved Through the Fair- trad.

16. So Will We Yet- trad/Gordon Bok

17.William Taylor- trad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more info, click on "Show All Pages" below to view:

Notes on Sarah's Songs 

Ian's Music Bio

CD Recording details

Performance Art with Eeo Stubblefield

Song Lyrics