A.J. Roach & Nuala Kennedy, Berkeley House Concert

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Nuala Kennedy was born and raised on the scenic shores of the east coast of Ireland. A. J. Roach was born 4,000 miles away in the rugged Appalachian mountains of Southwestern Virginia. They met in the autumn of 2009 at a songwriting retreat in the hills of southwest Scotland and realized that while they had grown up on opposite sides of an ocean, the musical traditions that each were steeped in and that both had chosen to carry on were not nearly so distant from one another. Many Ulster ballads and tunes made their way across that ocean, and like the people who brought them, these songs found new life in the mountains and hollows of Appalachia.

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