Mary McPartlan - The Holland Handkerchief

Mary, who has lived in Galway since the mid-eighties, was born and reared near Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim. She has been known on the Irish folk music scene for many years in a variety of founding and administrative music and theatre initiatives. More recently she has co-ordinated the singing participation from Ireland at the second International Voice Festival in Lvov, Ukraine in 2002, co-produced two half hour TV documentaries on the life and singing of Nan Tom Teamin De Burca and was commissioned by the Entertainment Corporation of New York New York to produce a four hour show based on the history of Irish music, song, dance and culture. This show ran for 3 months in Las Vegas in the summer of 2003. The Holland Handkerchief, her debut CD, is yet another example of the seemingly endless talent of this extraordinary woman.Track listing; The Holland Handkerchief/Rainy Night in Soho/Johnny Lovely Johnny/The Tide Full In/Ladybird/Lord Gregory/John Riley/Lovely Sailor Boy/As I Roved Out,Joe O'Dowd's Barndance/Peat Bog Soldiers/Saw You Running/Aura Lee/Slieve Gallion Braes.