The addition of fiddler Skip Parente makes the group’s music fuller, richer, and even more impressive than ever. Jigs, reels, flings, and Breton tunes are all here, all marvels of tight, seasoned musicianship. There’s even a lazy hill-country tune that bolts into a blue-grass pace with 5-string banjo, guitar, mandolin and fiddle playing off and with each other flawlessly. The singing has never been better. Claudine
Langille’s smoky lead on the title track, her own composition, makes you feel the green-fire refusal in the lyric. Triona Ni Dhomhnaill sings three of her own songs.
