Crankie Island

This brand new album features 32 songs, one for every county on the island of Ireland.  The songs  represent so many of the songs types found in Ireland; love, loss, emigration, recruitment, satirical, the supernatural, political, lullaby, etc

The album was created over 3 years in various studios in Ireland and abroad with over 30 musicians from around the country.

It includes duets with the likes of Lisa O’Neill, Donal Clancy and Andrew Hendy (Mary Wallopers)

Each of the recordings have accompanying original moving illustrations displayed in Crankie Boxes.

Examples here crankieisland.com

Storybook, the Songs of Brendan Graham

‘Storybook - The Songs of Brendan Graham’ sung by Cathy Jordan (Dervish) and accompanied by Feargal Murray (Camille O’ Sullivan) has been released.

The ten-track album traverses the lines between old tradition and more modern folk tradition.

Songs on the album include ‘Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears’, ‘Waltzing Alone’, ‘Sleepsong’ and ‘Winter Fire & Snow’

Plúirín Na Mban
Female Rambling Sailor

A brand new collaboration between Irish traditional singer, bodhrán player, and composer Cathy Jordan, Austrian fiddle-player, composer and singer Claudia Schwab and contemporary Irish composer Irene Buckley.

Female Rambling Sailor, their debut album, is a mesmerising soundscape celebrating ancient Irish songs with atmospheric drone, pulsating bodhrán rhythms, fiddle delays and intricate vocal harmonies.

Cathy Jordon
All The Way Home

Solo album of musician and vocalist Cathy Jordan, long-time member of multi-award winning traditional Irish band Dervish and The Unwanted.

This solo showcase of the musical and vocal talents of the Roscommon native is a seminal work, some twenty years in the making and features many of the most notable names in the folk world from Ireland and abroad including Eddi Reader, Andy Irvine, Rick Epping,  Seamie O’Dowd and Mike McGoldrick.

This collection captures the rich cultural tapestry of Cathy’s unique musical and personal journey from early childhood through her professional success to date. Among the twelve tracks are traditional ballads Cathy would have heard sung in her family home.

Dervish
The Great Irish Songbook

As one of the world's most renowned and imaginative interpreters of Irish folk music, Dervish have devoted the last three decades to gently reinventing the traditional songs of their homeland.
Produced by Graham Henderson (a musician known for his work with artists like Sinéad O'Connor), The Great Irish Songbook delivers some of the best-loved songs in the Irish tradition.
Most of the collaborators appearing on the album are artists Dervish met through 30 years of touring as a band, but some were new friends and came to the project for the love of these songs.
Featuring guests Steve Earle, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill, Brendan Gleeson, Emelda May, Jamey Johnson, Kate Rusby, The SteelDrivers, Abigail Washburn, and others, The Great Irish Songbook both preserves the spirit of each song and brings a new vitality to iconic traditional songs of their homeland.

The Unwanted
Pay Day

The Unwanted features Cathy Jordan, Rick Epping and Seamie O’Dowd. Between them, they encompass a vast range of the music of Ireland, America, and other places geographically and culturally linked to these lands that encircle the Atlantic Ocean. From the rich traditions of both sides of the Atlantic have come the source and inspiration of the music of The Unwanted—three Sligo-based musicians, each with exceptional talent and a lifetime dedication to their music.

The Unwanted
Music from the Atlantic Fringe

The Unwanted features Cathy Jordan, Rick Epping and Seamie O’Dowd. “Many ties bind our own musical traditions to those of Appalachia and points west. The Unwanted is a beautifully loose-limbed celebration of those cross fertilizations, with an inquisitive ear cocked towards the future too.” - Irish Times

Clarvis, Noble & Jordan
Freight Train

In July 2020 Cathy Jordan, Liam Noble & Paul Clarvis joined forces remotely, to create a new big sound from small resources for an online concert commission to Paul, by West Midlands Jazz.

Freight Train carries tracks recorded apart for that lockdown stream, along with those from their first live meeting in the studio in January 2022.

“The whole album adds up to a very agreeable 50-odd minutes, but beware. A long-forgotten tune, suddenly heard again, can stick to you like glue. It happened to me with this title track, Freight Train, a hit in the mid-1950s, when I first heard it. Now I can’t shake it.”

The Guardian 2023

I Am Of Ireland
Yeats in Song

The poems of Yeats set to music by Raymond Driver, performed by Cathy Jordan, John Doyle, Christine Collister, Kevin Burke, members of Lúnasa and others.

“A happy coming together of the best in song, poetry and music” - Aidan O’Hara, Irish Music Magazine.

The Crannua Collective

The Crannua Collective features three generations of writers steeped in the the transatlantic tradition. They have come together to construct a new and original voice, creating a contemporary body of work, drawn from their collective and individual music history.