This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Landless

I was lucky enough to be one of those present for Landless playing in the Unitarian Church on Friday week ago.

Landless are Lily Power, Meabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinead Lynch. Formed in 2013 and based in Ireland, they sing unaccompanied traditional songs in four-part harmony. For their latest album and the show, they had Cormac Mac Diarmada from Lankum on fiddle, Alex Borwick played Trombone, piano and the organ in the church. Spud Murphy on sound too.

The different pitch, tone and range of each singer complementing each other with a constant background of everything from Melodian, fiddle, organ, trombone to piano.

The background filling in the silence giving the singing an even more atmospheric feeling in a wonderful acoustic location. It was a privilege to be present.