New Time Ensemble Digital Album

"An eclectic mix of musical styles and personalities, with Irish traditional music at its heart. The sound is fresh and innovative...check it out!" - Dr. Sandra Joyce, Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

Recorded in Limerick, Ireland, A Year in Ireland includes new arrangements of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland and is centered around Liz Davis Maxfield, cello; Kay Vickers, fiddle; Leslie Anne Harrison, flute; and Frédéric Pouille, guitar. The album also includes guest appearances by Sandra Joyce, voice; Tommy Fitzharris, whistle; Siobhán O'Connell, concertina; and Sean Ó Fearghail, fiddle. Other guest contributors include composer Andrew Maxfield, in his arrangement of track four, The King's Shilling, and flute and whistle player Brian Finnegan, in his arrangement of track eight, Road to Taynuilt.

1) Miller’s Maggot/Creel of Turf

2) Scolding Wife/Touch Me If You Dare/More Power to Your Elbow

3) Da Trowie Burn

4) King’s Shilling

5) Come in From the Rain

6) Killarney Boys of Pleasure/Roscommon Reel

7) Drowsy Man’s Hornpipe

8) Road to Taynuilt

9) Fig for a Kiss/Come Upstairs With Me

10) Humours of Lisadell/McGlennon’s/Pigtown Fling

11) The Blackthorn Stick Set