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, one Sunday a month 4-7 at the Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale NY www.rosendalecafe.com Next date: Sunday May 27

 

Often to be found: at New World Home Cooking, Monday night Celtic Trad Jam Session 8:30 pm' on rte 212 between Woodstock and Saugerties, NY 845 246 0900

 

Sat. & Sun. June 16 &17, Clearwater's Hudson River Revival Festival, celebrating the release of "Singing Clear", songs for a clean environment, with Bev Grant, Colleen Kattau, Dave Lippman, Betty Boomer & Friends, details tba

 

Fri. June 1, CD release Party for "Singing Clear" with Bev Grant & Colleen Kattau, Brooklyn NY

 

Recent Gigs:

 

March 17, 2012, St. Patrick's Day, Women's Voices for Peace in Ireland, People's Voice Cafe, NYC, with Dan Einbender. www.peoplesvoicecafe.org

 

Sunday March 11 Fukushima Commemoration: Year One, Rally and Concert at Indian Point Nuke Plant with Dar Williams, Dan Einbender & the Rivertown Kids, Dave Bernz, James Durst, Fred Gillen & Hope Machine, Taeko Fuokao & the Raging Grannies

 

Sunday March 4. Special Concert at Rosendale Cafe featuring Mnsgr. Charlie Coen, Dylan Foley and Friends. 4-7 pm

 

Takoma Park Minifest, Folklore Society of Greater Washington, Sat. Feb. 4, 2012. Traditional Songs w/Michele Callaghan

 

Beacon Sloop Club Pumpkin Fest, Sun. Oct. 16, 2 pm at Beacon Riverfront Park, with Dan Einbender & Special Guest Fiddler

 

 

Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival. Sun. June 19, 2011 5-5:45pm, "Down By the River" at Circle of Song with Jude Roberts and Friends

 

New York Pinewoods Folk Music Society Spring Music Weekend, May 27-30, 2011 at the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, Kerhonkson, NY. www.folkmusicny.org/weekends.html

Beltane Festival, Sat. April 30 [rain date 5/1], Center For Symbolic Studies, Stone Mountain Farm, Tillson NY www.symbolicstudies.org

Sat. Jan. 22, 8 pm. People's Voice Cafe, NYC. appearing with John Roberts and Ian Worpole, NYUU Community Church, 40 E. 35th St. , admission $15.

Sat. Jan. 15 Woodstock Library, 8 pm with Ian Worpole, Julie Parisi-Kirby and TG Vanini

Fri. Nov.12 NERFA [Northeast Folk Alliance] Conference, Showcases with Flying Cat Music Rm 1315, 1:50 am Sat. 11/13 and People's Music Network rm 1310,, 11:30 pm Fri. 11/12, Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson NY

CD Release Party, Fri. Dec. 17, 8 pm Rosendale Cafe. $5. cover. Portion of CD sales to benefit Hudson River Sloop "Clearwater"

Sun. August 15, 2010 Beacon Sloop Club Corn Fest, Beacon NY

Fri. Dec. 11, 2009 7 pm, Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon NY, Holiday Sing w/Pete Seeger & Friends

Sun. Dec.13, 5 pm, Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff NY w/R Fr. Charlie Coen & Friends

Sinterklaas Rhinebeck/ Into the Light Dec. 5 w/Vanaver Caravan & Arm of the Sea Theater

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

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"

 

Re the monthly Rosendale Session:

"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

 

Most recent cd recording released 12/2010: "Strange Sweethearts" w/Ian Worpole & Friends. Available from www.cdbaby.com

Liner blurb from "Strange Sweethearts":

"Dedicated with Love & Thanks to my Family and Friends for their loving support and encouragement; to all the Musicians who helped me for their spirited and delightful participation; and to my Community which allows me to be who I am. A special Thank-you goes to Pete Seeger whose generous spirit made this recording possible, and to the memory of Michael DMoch who set the wheels in motion."

 

6 CD Recordings:

 

"Chimaera"

Recorded 2004 at LedgeRock Studios, Rhinecliff NY

available as a download from www.cdbaby.com/cd/suiw

 

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 2003

 

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, except track 17, recorded at Skytop Studio, 11/30/11 with Betty Boomer, Steve Stanne, and Robert Bard

 

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 .Morgan Medley

11.Outward Bound- Tom Paxton

12. Planxty Jimenez- Dan Harper

13. Sailor's Prayer- Rod McDonald

14. She Moved Through the Fair- trad.

15. So Will We Yet- trad/Gordon Bok

16. William Taylor- trad.

17. Mingalay Boat Song- Hugh Roberton

 

"Live & Unadorned in the Living Room"

Recorded by Hans Ten Broeke, Red Cottage Recording, 7-31-03 in Woodstock NY

Sarah on vocals, Ian on vocals and guitar

 

1.The King's Shilling

2.Galway to Graceland/Richard Thompson

3.Banks of the Nile/Trad.

4.Newry Highwayman/Trad.

5.Snows They Melt the Soonest/Trad.

6.Witch of the Westmoreland/Archie Fisher

7.Week Before Easter/Trad.

8.Ranzo Ray/Trad.

9.Sweet Rosemary/Sandy Denny

10.Blackwaterside/Trad.

11.Cappoquin/Trad.

12.Silkie/Trad.

 

 

"Strange Sweethearts"

recorded at Skytop Studio, New Paltz NY, by Robert Bard, 2010

 

 

1. Bonelace Weaver- lyrics Leonard Wheatcroft, 1650/ tune Roy Harris

2. Lagan Love- Joseph McCahill

3. Newry Highwayman- Trad.

4. Snows They Melt the Soonest- Trad.

5. Plains of Kildare- Trad.

6. Huey the Graeme- Trad.

7. Whistling Thief-Samuel Lover

8. I Am a Youth Inclined to Ramble- Trad.

9. Sweet King Williamstown- Daniel Buckley

10. Adieu to Old Ireland- Trad.

11. Rich Irish Lady- Trad.

12. Fair Ellender- Trad.

13. Come All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies/Silver Dagger -Trad.

14. Nelly Bly- Stephen Foster

15. Sweet Bann Water- Trad.

16. From the Prison- c. Sarah Underhill 2004

17. Manitou Bound- Pat Humphries c. 1990 Moving Forward Music/BMI

18. Where Go the Boats- R.L. Stevenson/ Ruth Bernz

 

 

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

"Strange Sweethearts"- expanded liner notes

The Pete Seeger Connection