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'Spontaneous, Alive and Affecting' – Folk Radio UK
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The Haar live at Shrewsbury Folk Festival

August 28, 2022

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

We're delighted to be playing the Main Stage and Sabrina stage at this year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival!

Gig Details

Time
2:30 pm
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Venue Details

Address
Shrewsbury Folk Festival West Midlands Showground Berwick RoadShrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 2PF
Website
shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk

The Haar brings the fresh talent of traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music circuit: Cormac Byrne (Instrumentalist of the Year 2019, FATEA Magazine Music Awards), Adam Summerhayes (‘a Paganini of the traditional violin’ fROOTS) and Murray Grainger (‘Gorgeous stuff’ BBC Radio 3).

The band has its origins in a chance meeting between Adam, Cormac and Molly at a trad session at Craiceann Bodhrán Festival, Inis Oírr, resulting in an improvised live performance recorded by the shipwreck of the Plassey on the wild Atlantic seafront. It was to become typical of the unique ‘live reactive composition’ that characterises their music. With the addition of master accordionist Grainger, they entered the studio at the end of 2019 to record their debut album ’The Haar’ with no plans or arrangements, guided only by the live musical landscapes they created – the music was recorded as it flowed, often in the first and only take.

Mike Harding said: “I think it’s an absolutely amazing album. Full of great traditional music, just sung and played brilliantly.”

“We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting, The Haar will take you on a journey and have you appreciating the purest of life’s pleasures. Wonderful stuff.” Folk Radio UK.

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