 | Colcannon - Covering Our Tracks
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(March 2002) 17 tracks: I'm Fine; Lonesome Road; Galilea; Ashokan Farewell; You'll Never Be the Sun; Boat on the River; Western Highway; The Rose; After the Goldrush; Auld Lang Syne; Evening; The Roving Dies Hard; From Clare to Here; Ripples in the Rockpool; The Land Belongs to Them; Freedom Calling; Send the Boats Away.
The group Colcannon, from Adelaide in South Australia, formed in 1988 to support Scotland’s Battlefield Band at a performance in that city. Such was the response to Colcannon that night that more gigs followed and the band soon became a feature on the Australian music scene.
Over the years Colcannon has developed a distinctive Celtic style, concentrating on rich vocal harmonies and dynamic arrangements, with a strong emphasis on Australian contemporary and traditional material. Covering Our Tracks is compiled from five earlier Colcannon albums.
In 1995, 1996 and 2001 Colcannon received the award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Folk Music from the South Australian Music Industry and in those same years the South Australian Folk Federation presented them with the Best Contemporary Folk Band award.
Colcannon are Kat Kraus (lead vocals, keyboards) from New South Wales; Sian O’Callaghan (fiddle, keyboards, vocals), who trained at Adelaide’s Conservatory of Music; John Munro (mandolin, guitar, vocals) who has toured with Eric Bogle; Pete Titchener (guitar, bass, vocals), originally from England; and Don Holdernesse (bass, keyboards, congas, vocals) from Adelaide.
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