Dervish
Roscommon born Cathy Jordan has been a professional singer with traditional group Dervish for over 25 years now. She is a self-taught guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán and bones player, and has led Dervish as front woman through thousands of concerts in hundreds of cities in nearly forty countries. The most notable perhaps were performances at the Great Wall of China and the biggest rock music festival in the world - Rock in Rio to over 250,000 concert goers.
In 2019, Dervish were awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Folk Awards.
Dervish Discography
The Great Irish Songbook
1 The Rambling Irishman (Feat. Cathy Jordan)
2 There's Whisky in the Jar (Feat. The Steel Drivers)
3 Molly Malone (Feat. Imelda May)
4 The Galway Shawl (Feat. Steve Earle)
5 She Moved Through the Fair (Feat. Andrea Corr)
6 The Rocky Road to Dublin (Feat. Brendan Gleeson)
7 Down By the Sally Gardens (Feat. Kate Rusby)
8 On Raglan Road (Feat. Vince Gill)
9 Donal Og (Feat. Cathy Jordan)
10 The Fields of Athenry (Feat. Jamey Johnson)
11 The May Morning Dew (Feat. Rhiannon Giddens)
12 The West Coast of Clare (Feat. David Gray)
13 The Parting Glass (Feat. Abigail Washburn)
A Thrush in the Storm
1 The Green Gowned Lass
2 Baba Chonraoi
3 Maggie Lilt 4 The Lovers’ Token
5 The Rolling Wave 6 Shanagolden
7 The Corner House
8 The Banks of the Clyde
9 Handsome Polly-O
10 The Harp and Shamrock
11 Snoring Biddy
12 The Thrush in the Storm
The Leitrim Equation
Dervish featured on Leitrim County Council’s second Traditional Music Residency. During their time in the county, Cathy met and sang with a number of Leitrim singers with the aim of identifying songs native to Leitrim and bringing them to a new audience. She and the band, met and sang with Leitrim singers Fionnuala Maxwell, Eleanor Shanley, Mary McParlan, Eamonn Daly, Tom Mulvey and Rosie Stewart.
‘The Leitrim Equation2’ consists of a mixture of songs and music from Dervish and Leitrim musicians they met and worked with during their time in the county. The emphasis of this recording is on the ‘voice’ of Leitrim as explored through familiar songs such as ‘Lovely Leitrim’, ‘Shores of Lough Bran’, and ‘My County Leitrim Queen’ given a Dervish twist.
25 Years Celebration
1 Midsummer's Night
2 Snoring Biddy
3 The Coolea Jigs
4 Bold Doherty
5 Killavil Jigs
6 The Ploughman
7 Maggie's Lilt
8 Cailin Rua
9 Packie Duighan's
10 Boots of Spanish Leather
11 Buckleys Fancy
12 Lord Levett
13 The Swallow's Tail
14 Red Haired Mary
15 Welcome Poor Paddy Home
Travelling Show
1 Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves 2 The Rakes Of Clonmel |Cul Aodh | Out On The Road 3 My Bride And I 4 The Cat She Went A-Hunting 5 The Acorn | Comb Your Hair And Curl It |Last Night’s Fun | The Ballina Lass 6 Grainne 7 Heading Home | Errew Lane | Lavin’s Favorite 8 The Queen And The Soldier 9 The Master’s Return |Dunrobin Castle |The Boys Of Tulla 10 Lord Levett 11 The Forgotten Fling
12 The Jolly Tinker 13 Cruachan Na bPaiste
Spirit
1 John Blessings 2 Jig Songs
3 Father Jack
4 Fair Haired Boy
5 Siesta Set
6 Soldier Laddie
7 Beauties of Autumn
8 The Lag's Song
9 Boots of Spanish Leather
10 O'Raghailligh's Grave
11 Swallows Trail
12 The Cocks Are Crowing
13 Whelans
From Stage to Stage
1 The Swallows Tail 2 Lord Levett 3 The Bealtine Set 4 The Masters Return 5 I Courted a Wee Girl 6 Josefin's Waltz 7 Slangpolska Efterbyss Calle 8 The Coolea Jigs 9 The Cat She Went a Hunting 10 The Boots of Spanish Leather 11 John Blessings 12 Red Haired Mary 13 Gold in Them Hills 14 Apples in Winter
Midsummer’s Night
1Midsummer's Night 2 Sean Bhain 3 Tenpenny Bit
4 The Banks of Sweet Viledee 5 Palmer's Gate 6 Erin Gra Mo Chroi 7 Lark on the Strand 8 Cairns Hill 9 There Was a Maid in Her Father's Garden 10 Abbeyfeale Set 11 An T-U11 12 Bold Doherty 13 Out on the Road 14 Red-Haired Mary
Decade
1 The Kilavi |The Chicago | Paddy Fahey’s 2 Molly And Johnny 3 The Lark On The Strand | Fraher’s | Four Mile Stone | The Mountain Top 4 The Hills Of Greanmore 5 The Worlds End 6 Lost And Found | Leitrim Town | Apples In Winter 7 Peigin Mo Chroi 8 Josefin’s 9 An Spailfin Fanach 10 The Hungry Rock 11 The Banks Of The Sweet Viledee 12 Mick O’Connor’s |Jack Roe | Palmer’s Gate 13 An Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi 14 Miss Johnstone’s | Jim Coleman’s |Controversial
Live in Palma
Disc 1 1 Packie Duignan's Jigs 2 Spailpin Fanach 3 Slow Reels 4 Sheila Nee Iyer 5 The Trip To Sligo 6 The Hungry Rock 7 Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi 8 Molly And Johnny 9 The Green Mountain
Disc 2 1 I Courted A Wee Girl| Josefin's Waltz 2 Drag Her Round The Road 3 Maire Mhor 4 I Buried Me Wife And Danced On Top Of Her 5 The Hills Of Greanmore 6 The World Ends (Reels) 7 Peata Beag 8 Pheigin' Mo Chroi 9 Jim Coleman's Mazurka/Reels 10 Happy Birthday To Felip 11 Edward Ny Lough Eirn's Shore 12 Killavil Jigs 13 Allellu Na Gnamha
At the End of the Day
1 Touching Cloth - Dervish, Kelly, James 2 Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi (For Ireland Won't Tell Her Name) 3 Jim Coleman's Set 4 An Spailpin Fanach 5 Packie Duigman's 6 Lone Shanakyle 7 Drag Her 'Round the Road 8 Peata Beag 9 The Trip to Sligo Set 10 Sheila Nee Iyer 11 The Kilavill Set 12 I Courted a Wee Girl 13 Josefin's Waltz - Dervish, Tallroth, Roger 14 Eileen McMahon
Playing with Fire
1Buckleys Fancy, Name Unknown, Finns Reel 2 Molly And Johnny 3 Last Nights Fun 4 The Wheels Of The World 5 Maire Mor 6 I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her 7 The Hungry Rock 8 Calin Rua 9 The Ash Plant Set 10 Peigin Mo Chroi 11 The Game Of Love 12 Willie Lennox 13 Let Down The Blade
Harmony Hill
1 Apples In Winter
2 Hills Of Greenmore
3 The Green Fields Of Miltown
4 Bellaghy Fair
5 The Ploughman
6 The Green Mountain
7 Welcome Poor Paddy Home
8 Jig C Jig
9 The Fair Maid
10 Virginia Set
11 A Stor Mo Chror
12 Stides & Reels
