Dervish Finds New Ways To Celebrate Tradition With 'The Great Irish Songbook'
As the Irish band Dervish approaches its 30th anniversary, they musicians have released The Great Irish Songbook with guests including Steve Earle, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill and more.
For the past three decades, Dervish has been at the forefront of reinventing traditional Irish folk songs. The Sligo-based band is "breathing new life" into the beloved music of its homeland with The Great Irish Songbook, an album pulling from an eclectic range of genres and the voices of over a dozen featured artists.
Collaborators on the album, and and this project encompasses everything from traditional dance music to love ballads, including a W.B. Yeats-penned serenade "Down by the Sally Gardens" and the classic "The Rocky Road to Dublin."
