The Rising Road - Kris Drever, John McCusker & Ian Carr
Tickets: £28
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The Rising Road takes its name from the old blessing, “May the road rise to meet you” — words rooted in friendship, fellowship and the hope of a good journey ahead.
It feels fitting for three musicians whose paths have crossed and intertwined for decades.
McCusker, Drever and Carr have collaborated with everyone from Mark Knopfler and Roddy Woomble to Eddi Reader and Joan Baez, and are widely regarded as three of the most influential musicians in contemporary folk music, yet this project feels a little different.
The Rising Road is where three paths meet and the music has found its way back too: old tunes resurfacing, songs remembered, and a shared instinct to return to the traditional music that first set each of them on their way.
It is a return to source, but not a journey backwards. Together, Kris, John and Ian are revisiting the music that shaped them with everything that years of playing, travelling, collaborating and friendship have given them, finding new possibilities in old melodies and carrying them forward.
The project is conceived as a lifelong exploration: part living archive, part musical conversation, continually evolving as they dig deeper into the tradition and add their own chapter to it.
The first tour is simply the beginning of the road.
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