ELEANOR SHANLEY & JOHN FEELEY

She is renewing the genre at the end of this year with a magnificent album Cancion De Amor, recorded in collaboration with the Spanish-influenced classical guitarist John Feeley. This is the ninth album for the Co. Leitrim singer who was one of Dé Dannan's voices in the 80s and 90s. 

Working together for the past two years, Eleanor and John share a taste for musical styles that has given birth to a musical pearl of great sensitivity. Recorded in a magnificent convent on the banks of the Shannon River, the album features thirteen tracks, nine songs and four instrumentals that highlight J. Feeley's delicate "guitaristic" playing. Feeley has composed several tunes, including The Immigrant's Song and Donegal.

Cancion De Amor, which gives its title to the album, is signed by Brendan Graham, an Irish writer and songwriter, famous for having written The Voice, with which Ireland won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996. The tracks on the album include the traditional My Bonny Light Horseman and Siúil A Rún as well as Sand and Water, a song by Beth Nielsen Chapman popularised a few years ago by Tommy Fleming, one of Dé Dannan's other voices.

Alongside Eleanor and John, several musicians joined them, including the ConTempo String Quartet. It should be added that in this year disrupted by the pandemic, this album was partially financed by the Irish Ministry of Culture as part of the support programme for live performances. A great initiative.

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