The Sillertides (Linn Phipps and Doug Huggins) are traditional song singers who offer joyful shared-singing of conversation songs between song partners who – while 5,000 miles apart – interact in the song as if in the same place, https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/sillertides/ . Many folksongs and ballads are built around a conversation between two or more characters, and the singing may be shared by different people, clearly differentiating the characters and bringing them and their story to life.
Linn and Doug sing together as The Sillertides every week live on zoom ceilidhs, and have performed together virtually at festivals such as Spring Harmony, Tumbleweed Virtual Music Festival, New England Folk Festival, the Mermaid’s Tavern and Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival’s Single-Shanty Big Sings. In 2022 we were able to sing together in person in Dublin at Drogheda, Malahide and An Góilín.
Our Youtube channel is here https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC . Our debut “Sillertides” CD “Silk and Leather” (Conversation Songs from the Folk Tradition) is on our bandcamp page here sillertides.bandcamp.com. Our Sillertides CD launch concert in October 2021, hosted by Lynn Noel of The Mermaid’s Tavern and Crosscurrents Music, Boston Massachusetts, is on Youtube at https://youtu.be/nwMIMDOWU_U. Our 4-track EP “The wind, the land, the sea and the traveller” is on our Bandcamp page as a free download.
In 2022, the Sillertides collaborated on a special project with an old friend, artist Lionel Coates. Lionel had a major exhibition at Clare Museum running spring 2022, and featuring paintings of Ireland with three distinct themes of Famine, Fields and Fishing. The Sillertides matched Lionel’s wonderful paintings with songs reflecting the theme and the scene portrayed. All twenty songs recorded for this project are on our Sillertides Youtube channel at https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC. We have now recorded nearly 40 songs for our Yourube channel – please subscribe, it’s free! Links to these are listed below.
Youtube catalogue:
A chuisle grá mo chroí: https://youtu.be/i0zH1LrayLI
Báidín Fheilimí: https://youtu.be/f2Wut9vilco
Banks of the Nile: https://youtu.be/5BZ7CsEw0sI
Braw Sailing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njlBC4s8Eho&t=7s
Bring me a Boat: https://youtu.be/Khl-INkfTUM
Down by the Salley Gardens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqMs0g61ZOg&t=1s
Fields of Athenry (Pete St John): https://youtu.be/OErR959RBQc
Galway Shawl: https://youtu.be/pYDkhl3-Wf4
Inisheer (Inis Oírr, by Ethna Carbery, English language version): https://youtu.be/NwnUpnAfsW0
John Dead – Grey Goose Gone Home (dedicated to Ronald Graham): https://youtu.be/hK8QpHgVW0M
Johnny ma Man (dedication to Lisa Null): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJFwSZiCmo&t=10s
Jutland (Les Sullivan): https://youtu.be/6u6Ct3gusLM
Lady Margaret and William: https://youtu.be/a0h-1zcAbgY (dedicated Casey Casebeer)
Le mariage secret: https://youtu.be/f4Ri4Q8DOCY with Benoit Lemiegre
Lovely Joan (dedicated to Bob Lewis) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDUUIlfVhM
Lovely Molly: https://youtu.be/z9wczJd_ygs (dedicated to David Ingerson)
Norland Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D31VHE0WlRw&t=6s
Over the hills and far away https://youtu.be/SD-pKTJCk5I (dedicated to Ruth & John Yule) premiered 29 12 23
Scarborough Fair (dedicated to Lynn Noel): https://youtu.be/zd5KwrgVMS8
Siúil a rún: https://youtu.be/CE9NlurGEWo
Southwind: https://youtu.be/W2_P3_lVgq8
Sovay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364-0eyL1Dw&t=2s
Spancil Hill: https://youtu.be/2Ux38YDZvS8
The Barring of the Door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipDiNDXNIo&t=4s
The Bold Fisherman: https://youtu.be/-q9EWzWoD_Y
The Dark Eyed Sailor: https://youtu.be/1y5XogfOP-s (dedicated to Doug’s Dad)
The Fair Flower of Northumberland: https://youtu.be/3RdIV0uoOZI
The Fisherboy: https://youtu.be/In0ZpEYMzKU
The Frog’s wedding (dedicated to Annette O’Connell & Cathal McConnell) https://youtu.be/-HkmRIT7SvE
The May Morning Dew: https://youtu.be/UjypEShPDQc
The month of January: https://youtu.be/q1M8JAVO4bM
The Moorlough Shore (dedication Alice Farrell): https://youtu.be/V5Wj2qVK–Y
Three Fishers: https://youtu.be/XXGOr9Va-ug
Unquiet Grave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ruBgsisuSo
Verdant braes of Screen: https://youtu.be/y2FvOqz9YyQ
When my love and I parted: https://youtu.be/HkyEs7l6GJQ