Many’s the Foolish Youth

In the beginning was the voice. And what voices are here - those of Fran McPhail, Gerry Cullen and Phil Callery, three ice-clear mountain streams fusing into a surging river of harmony - no accompaniment, no trimming, no distraction form the intensity and passion of these three iron-bar voices. Unaccompanied harmony singing in the folk tradition first came to light with the recordings of the Copper family form Sussex, in the South of England. Fran, Gerry and Phil, already widely known in the field of Irish traditional song, have built upon the basic elements of this style to develop a powerful and highly distinctive approach to their own native tradition.