TRAVELING SHOW (2007)

Folk songs and ballads can appear in unusual setting and on this album Dervish explore some of these songs that could in other life been written in the Irish Tradition. One example is the song Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, written by Sunny and Cher in the late sixties. The song is a ballad written through the eyes of a child born into a Travelling Show with all the adventures and dangers that that entails. A beautiful version of Susan Vega’s “Queen and The Soldier also appears on this album as well as Brendan Graham’s haunting Crucán Na bPáiste a song about the hundreds of innocent children buried in a famine grave in county Mayo.