PAT BROADERS.

He immediately blended into the Irish-American music scene, joining Bohola with Jimmy Keane and more recently Open The Door For Three alongside Kieran O'Hare and Liz Knowles.  Yet in three decades, never an album under his own name. This shortcoming has now been repaired, Pat having taken advantage of the pandemic to work on a truly solo album since he officiates both on vocals and bouzouki, which is familiar to him, but also on whistles, uilleann pipes, bodhrán and keyboards.
His album, soberly entitled Pat Broaders, opens with two songs about the 1798 rebellion in Wexford, Kelly the Boy from Killane and The Croppy Boy, songs learned from his father, himself a singer in his time.
There is an original version of Reynardine by English folk singer June Tabor, followed by Mick Hanly's Farewell Lovely Nancy. His rendition of Where Harry Sat, which evokes the loss of a brother, is poignant, while Ewan McColl's School Days Over denounces child labour in the mines.
Two compositions by P. Broaders, The Merrimac Ferry and The Liz Effect, in reference to two musicians he often accompanies, Liz Carroll and Liz Knowles.
The album concludes with My Irish Jaunting Car where he pays a sincere tribute to his father by sharing the soundtrack recorded by him in 1962 in a Wexford pub.
Let's hope that Pat won't wait thirty long years before offering us a second album of this quality. 

Autoproduit - www.patbroaders.com