MP3 Sara Banleigh - The Folk - EP
Modern piano-based arrangements of long-lost English, Scottish, and Irish folk songs. Sara''s pure and compelling vocals and sparkling piano align with acoustic guitar, violin, and viola to spin these 500-year-old tales of love, death, murder, and lust.
5 MP3 Songs in this album (24:30) !
Related styles: Folk: Traditional Folk, Folk: Celtic Folk, Featuring Piano
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Sara Banleigh dives into the traditional music of the British Isles to explore themes of love, lust, murder, revenge, suicide, and the supernatural. She chooses songs that express both the joy and terror of the human condition, drawing on material that is anywhere from 300- to 800-years-old. These songs have served as an oral record, as well as a warning and spiritual guide, for peoples throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England for hundreds of years.
Sara has selected a handful of songs from the great wealth of Irish and British folk tradition for her debut album, arranging the material for piano, and bringing in a tight-knit band of acoustic guitar and strings to round out the melodic layers and to help her tell these universal, and ultimately personal, stories.