McPeake Family - Irish Folk

Never mind the Rolling Stones this outfit have been on the road for over 100 years. The McPeake Family are Belfast’s foremost traditional music family.  Frank McPeake, the patriarch of the family, was born in 1885, leaving school at 13 to become a linen worker before taking up music full time. This is the family's 2nd album Irish Folk which was released in 1964 and remains a Celtic classic.



From the sleeve notes

"Ireland must be considered a vast treasure-house of song, the folk poetry of its people among the most abundant and warmly lyrical of any country in the western world. The beauty and charm of Irish music has long been universally recognized, as has the equal beauty of the verse to which that music has been set. If the tradition of Gaelic song is a long one, it is a living, breathing one as well, as this charming and infectiously exuberant recording bears delightful witness".

Brennan On The Moor

Alabama

Ballynure Ballad

The Winding Banks Of Erne

Belfast Street Songs

Out In The Open

The Next Market Day

Dumb, Dumb, Dumb

Banks Of The Roses

Maggie Pickens

Corrie Doon

Buncrana Train

On The Banks Of The O.B.D.

Lament For Owen Roe

Jute Mill Song

Ducks Of Mergherlin

Link to the free album
McPeake Family - Irish Folk