The Clearing, by Dréos

The Clearing

by Dréos

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1.	Devil in the Kitchen/Tie the Bonnet/The Sound of Mull 03:49		buy track
2.	Empty Tomb/Samuel's Grand Entrance/Old Cape Hatteras 04:24	info	buy track
3.	The Clearing 04:14	info	buy track
4.	Silver Trees 02:16	info	buy track
5.	Erin's Slipjig/Caitlin's Jig/Brown Ale 05:06	info	buy track
6.	Empty Bookcase/The Lights of Limerick/Pepper Man 04:11	info	buy track
7.	Weaving to Friday Harbor/Andrew Dewberry's/Ellie's New Hat 04:24	info	buy track
8.	The Day Dawn 05:24	info	buy track
9.	Boundless 03:49	info	buy track
10.	Rebecca's Highland Fling/Winter Welcome/Itchy Feet 03:38	info	buy track
11.	The Battle of Waterloo/O' Neill's Cavalcade/Bonaparte Crossing the Alps 04:53	info	buy track
12.	Islenska/Flight of the Penguins/Dancin' Thro' The Gates 06:41		buy track
13.	The Clumsy Lover 02:56		buy track

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Dréos is an ensemble of performing composers who invent and arrange new and old music using a traditional vocabulary. The word “Dréos” comes from Scottish Gaelic, and translates into the English word “blaze.” Together in the studio for the first time, their debut recording was released in October 2015.

Genesis: An instant, uncanny artistic chemistry was clear from the moment Eliot and Brandon first played together, years ago at a Friday Harbor festival in Washington State. This meeting would be remembered. For a time, they parted ways, their musical and academic careers propelling them along parallel tracks in different parts of the world. Brandon left the Pacific Northwest to study violin performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Eliot headed off to pursue degrees in ethnomusicology and musicology at the University of Limerick and University of Oregon. Despite these divergent paths, Brandon and Eliot kept in contact, and in February 2014, they convened in Eugene, Oregon, with accompanist Glen Waddell to perform in Beall Hall at the University of Oregon. That musical reunion ignited a performing and recording venture, of which this album is a kind of firstfruit.

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released July 23, 2022

Eliot Grasso uilleann pipes • flute
Brandon Vance fiddle, vocals
Glen Waddell guitar • bouzouki smallpipes • bodhrán

Recorded at SophiaHat Studios, Seattle, WA

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