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Gradam Ceoil TG4 Amhránaí na Bliana/Singer of the Year 2011, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh’s new album, An Uair Bhig an Lae – The Small Hours is her second commercial solo offering. It consists of eleven songs, seven traditional and four new.
The latter are ‘Gold Hills’ by Australian Kate Burke, ‘A Single Thread’ by Ger Wolfe, ‘Another Day’ by Tim O’Brien and a traditional song, ‘An Chiúrach Bhléinfhionn’ newly set by Gerry O’Beirne.
The traditional songs are ‘Bó na Leathadhairce’, ‘‘S Ar Maidin Moch is Mé ar mo Leabain Bhoig’ (Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire), ‘The Leaving of Limerick’, ‘Cois Abhann na Séad’, ‘The Bold Fenian Men’ (Peadar Kearney), and ‘An Clár Bog Déil’.
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