The Whileaways – Toss The Bobbin
This women’s work.
Galway neo-folk trio The Whileaways (Noelie McDonnell, Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce) enchant with the new single from their forthcoming album, due next month.
To quote the press blurb:
“This evocative song tells the story of the 18th Century lacemaking women of Headford in County Galway, where The Whileaways are based and where Nicola grew up.
“Toss the Bobbin imagines the story of four of these women, who survived poverty and famine through bobbin lacemaking, and pieces together the little detail that exists of their lives. It tells of their resilience and the sisterhood that existed between them in the toughest of times as they turned their hands to this intricate work: lace made by the poor and worn only by the rich.”
Their nationwide tour begins in Tuam, County Galway, on June 4.
Nick says: Where angels fear to thread.
Have read this twice but still can’t see what SOQ will find to lie about… will have to wait and see, I suppose.