Sarah McQuaid - The St Buryan Sessions

Cat. no: SAASCD002
Format: CD
Barcode: 5060853700767
Release Date: 15 Oct 2021
Genre: Folk

Born out of the pandemic, The St Buryan Sessions is the sixth solo album by award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Sarah Mc-Quaid, and is her most powerful and emotive offering yet. 

The album had its genesis in the spring of 2020, when Sarah’s gigs and tours were cancelled due to COVID-19. Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, she was able to finance a live solo recording (sans audience) in the lovely medieval church of St Buryan, not far from her home in rural West Cornwall. 

Sensitively captured by her longtime sound engineer and manager, Martin Stansbury, with the aid of ambient microphones placed throughout the church, the sound of Sarah’s voice and music soars through the stunning acoustic space as she moves between acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar and floor tom drum, performing songs that span her 24-year career - from “Charlie’s Gone Home”, originally recorded on her 1997 debut album When Two Lovers Meet, to electric guitar based pieces from her most recent studio album If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous - plus a pair of previously unrecorded covers.

See http://www.sarahmcquaid.com/tour for details of album launch and tour dates Oct-Nov 2021.

Tracks: Sweetness And Pain / The Sun Goes On Rising / If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous / The Silence Above Us / One Sparrow Down / Charlie’s Gone Home / What Are We Going To Do / Yellowstone / Time To Love / Autumn Leaves / In Derby Cathedral / The Day Of Wrath, That Day / The Tug Of The Moon / Rabbit Hills / Last Song / Bonus Track