DEBUT ALBUM
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GREAT CRAIC'S PERFORMANCE OF THE CLASSIC
"I'LL TELL ME MA"
LIVE AT THE JOHN PEEL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS IN STOWMARKET
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A PERFORMANCE OF our own composition
"World spins round"
LIVE AT THE JOHN PEEL CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS IN STOWMARKET
aBOUT US
Great [adjective] wonderful; first-rate; very good:
Craic: [noun] Irish word for fun/enjoyment
Great Craic is made up of three experienced musicians who found themselves thrown together, filling in for a band who had cancelled a St. Patrick’s night gig at their local Irish bar. Singer Tony Shevlin answered the landlord’s panicked call, and calling up guitar and mandolin player Jonny Miller, and drummer Dirk Forsdyke - they quickly rehearsed a set of traditional Irish songs and songs by Irish rock groups. By all accounts, the gig was ‘great craic' and a new band was born.
It wasn’t long before the band started writing their own material. From songs like The Girl, the Pig and Me which sounds like it could have been written hundreds of years ago, to contemporary melodic songs of love lost such as World Spins Round, and songs that celebrate Irish heroes like Grainne Mhaol in Irish Pirate Queen, and ones which describe the Irish experience of working in a foreign land in The Lads Out of Mayo. All presented acoustically with Celtic wit, charm, exquisite harmonies, a wry smile, a side-order of blarney and some top-notch shenanigans.
