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Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley: Across the Water

Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley: Across the Water (Haystack HAYCD010)

Across the Water
Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley

Haystack Records HAYCD010 (CD, UK, 9 December 2016)

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Produced and mixed by Pete Ord;
Recorded at Half-Ton Studios, The Cold Rooms and StackStudios;
Mastered by Pete Maher, London;
Photography by Louise Bichan;
Artwork and design by Natalie Reid and Andy Stephenson

Musicians

Alex Cumming: vocals, accordion;
Nicola Beazley: fiddle, vocals

with
Evan Carson: bodhrán, percussion;
Matt Downer: double bass;
Naomi Rowland: cello;
Pete Ord: guitar, percussion, vocals

Tracks

  1. Bonny Ship the Diamond (Roud 2172; G/D 1:11) (4.27)
  2. Bethan’s (5.29)
  3. Billy Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11; G/D 1:169; Henry H213, H757) (5.00)
  4. The Breakfast Set (8.21)
  5. Streets of Forbes (Roud 20764) (3.48)
  6. Lachlan Tigers (4.23)
  7. Enrico (3.23)
  8. Bold Fisherman (Roud 291; Laws O24; G/D 4:834) (6.05)
  9. Across the Water (7.08)
  10. Come Me Lads (Roud 1238) (5.31)

All tracks trad. except
Track 2 Nicola Beazley;
Track 9a Alex Cumming, Nicola Beazley;
Track 9b Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps

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Nicola Beazley: Echoes

Nicola Beazley: Echoes (Nicola Beazley NBFB001CD)

Echoes
Nicola Beazley

Nicola Beazley NBFB001CD (EP, UK, 20 February 2019)

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Produced and mixed by Pete Ord;
Recorded and mixed by Tom A. Wright at Powered Flight Music, Sheffield;
Mastered at Skye Mastering;
Photography by James Fagan;
Artwork by Karen Verey

Musicians

Nicola Beazley, 5-stringed fiddle;
Katie Williamson, fiddle;
Andy Watson, guitar;
Tom Hurst, cornet;
Georgia Woodhead, tenor horn;
Matthew Beazley, tuba

Tracks

  1. Cutting the Rushes / Cross of Honour (4.36)
  2. Blue-Eyed Stranger / Echoes (Floral Dance) / Dennis Crowther’s No 3 (5.15)
  3. Fieldhouse (4.22)
  4. Damflask (2.27)
  5. O.R.B (Oldham Rifle Brigade) / Polka No 3 (2.43)
  6. Mount Hills (3.47)

Tracks 1a, 3-4, 5b Nicola Beazley;
Track 1b William Rimmer;
Tracks 2ab, 6 trad.;
Track 2c Dennis Crowther;
Track 5a Charles Anderson

> Folk Music > Records > Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley: Live in Toronto

Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley: Live in Toronto

Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley: Live in Toronto (private issue)

Live in Toronto
Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley

private issue (DL EP, UK, 1 April 2020)

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This live EP features 4 tracks from the forthcoming studio album and two previously unrecorded tracks.

Recorded by Dave Neale live at a house concert in Toronto, 2018;
Drawing by June Harman during the 2018 Canadian tour

Musicians

Alex Cumming: vocals, accordion;
Nicola Beazley: fiddle, vocals

Tracks

  1. Bird Song (3.37)
  2. Mister Isaac’s Maggot / Bostons (6.02)
  3. Lady Isabel (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163) (5.19)
  4. Child of the Library (4.23)
  5. French Canadian Set (4.31)
  6. A Miner’s Life (Roud 3510) (3.52)

Track 1 trad. USA;
Track 2a trad English dance tune (1695);
Track 2b Alex Cumming;
Tracks 3, 6 trad.;
Track 4 Piers Cawley;
Track 5a Nicola Beazley;
Track 5b trad. Quebecois reel