Laura Elizabeth Hughes – For You (Home)
A song from under the floorboards.
Dublin singer/songwriter Laura Elizabeth Hughes (top left)) empathetically deals with how depression and anxiety can emerge during the cabin fever of lockdown.
All proceeds go to the mental health charity Pieta House.
The emotionally powerful video is directed by Peadar Gill and stars dancer Taylor Graham (top right) alongside Laura.
Nick says: Home is where the art is.
Stopaigh that.
Peig.
Flirty, giggly agus girlish.
Old Ireland in Colour writes:
We can confirm that Irish legend Peig Sayers did indeed smile! Here she is with English linguist Kenneth Jackson having the craic…1932-1935
Orignial pics via The National Folklore Collection
True Tides – Survive
Need a soundtrack to your living room workout?
Let me introduce True Tides, three brothers from Cork.
Above from left: Cian, Conor and Eoghan MacSweeny combine to deliver an upbeat and uptempo message of hope.
Nick says: Turning the Tides.
Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery writes:
Our first episode of the Curators Choice series is live (above)! In episode one, our Director, Dr Barbara Dawson and Head of Collections, Logan Sisley discuss the intricacies and brilliance of Édouard Manet’s Music in the Tuileries Gardens, 1862 (top).
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised photo taken on June 16 1954, the first Bloomsday, featuring poets Patrick Kavanagh & Anthony Cronin at the church – and Goggin’s pub – in Monkstown [County Dublin] with the carriage in which they’d been traveling about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
Previously: Rob Cross on broadsheet
Jiggy – Friday’s Child.
Jiggy write:
‘Friday’s Child’ written by Jiggy vocalist and fiddle player Aoife Kelly in response to “Hard Border” by Clare Dwyer Hogg exploring the impact of imposed borders on communities.
Arrivalists – Hearts Off The Latch
The collaboration will continue until morale improves.
Known and loved for his work with Ten Speed Racer and The Hedge Schools, Pat Barrett has a new musical project up and running.
His first song as Arrivalists, which he has made available at bandcamp, was inspired by a picture (above) sent to him by professional photographer Ruth Medjber, who challenged him to rustle up a complementary tune on the spot.
The result is a deeply sensitive and introspective acoustic ballad that has echoes of The Blue Nile.
A much needed port in this storm.
Nick says: Thanks Pat.
He’s back.
Harry Prendergast writes:
Christy’s back. This week is a bit tougher than last week, so he wanted to give ye a lift. Share and have a laugh, and remember this won’t last forever.
Today’s song is Save Tonight, by Eagle Eye Cherry. An ode to how we’ve all gone a bit native, if native means sitting at home in your shorts eating biscuits.
Keep the heads up. If you’re low this week, you have your comrades everywhere.
Leave requests for Harry/Christy below.
Previously: Perspire Like Nobody’s Watching
Úna Keane – Piano Squared
In a quiet mood?
Dublin musician Úna Keane (top) played an unforgettable gig in the Pepper Canister Church, Dublin 2 earlier this month.
Now she has uploaded one of those live hypnotic piano pieces onto her YouTube channel with an accompanying video (above) featuring archive footage of kids playing in Victorian England in 1901.
Mesmerising.
Her most recent album is In The Deep.
Nick says: Ivory power.
