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Update
April 17, 2012
The Plum Tree and The Rose was released in March on the US-based Waterbug label (www.waterbug.com) and is currently No. 3 on the Folk Radio Chart, No. 4 on the UK Roots Radio Airplay Chart and No. 5 on the Euro Americana chart! Click here to order the album.Sarah writes ...I’m typing this missive in the passenger seat of Martin’s van en route from Penzance to Cardiff, where we’ll stay the night… (read more)
The Plum Tree and The Rose reaches No. 3 on FolkDJ Chart
April 3, 2012
Sarah's new album The Plum Tree and The Rose was No. 3 on the FolkDJ Chart for March 2012, and as of the week of March 30 was No. 16 on the UK Roots Radio Airplay Chart published by Roots Music Report. The album is also still at No. 5 on the Euro Americana Chart. (read more)
New album No. 5 on the Euro Americana Chart!
April 1, 2012
As of this month, Sarah's new album The Plum Tree and The Rose has reached No. 5 on the Euro Americana Chart! (read more)
Update - Feb/Mar 2012
February 8, 2012
Lots has happened since my last installment! I'm very happy and excited to be able to announce that I've been signed to the US-based Waterbug Records label, which will be releasing my new album The Plum Tree and the Rose on March 5th. And if you pre-order the album between now and the 26th of February, I'll send you a code that you can use straightaway to download a 3-track single featuring two songs… (read more)
Update - Oct/Nov 2011
October 27, 2011
I’ve just returned from the longest tour I’ve ever done: 8 weeks in the USA, taking in the whole country in a great big circle that started and finished in Austin, Texas, via 37 of the 50 states.What was nice this time round was the opportunity to perform in so many different settings. For example, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, I did a televised midday concert and then went round… (read more)
Update - September 2011
August 25, 2011
It’s been a busy summer! In June I spent two weeks in Ireland finishing off my new album. There’s one day of mixing still to be done, which I have to leave in the extremely capable hands of my producer, Gerry O’Beirne, and engineer Trevor Hutchinson. Having already made two albums with this crack team, I know they’ll do a lovely job of finishing it off in September while I’m on the road,… (read more)
Update - May 2011
May 6, 2011
It’s been a very, very busy year thus far – I’ve been touring pretty much nonstop since the end of January, with brief forays home now and again to remind my husband and children who I am, and I won’t get much of any respite until the end of June.I’m on the road – literally – as I type this, somewhere in Ohio on my way to a gig in Kirtland, near Cleveland. Having acquired a mobile wifi… (read more)
No. 6!
January 20, 2011
A wonderful bit of news came in just at the start of this month: My double CD (the two solo albums, released together on the North American market as a two-disc package) came in at No. 6 on the FolkRadio chart for 2010, based on playlists from 195 DJs. Have a look at http://folkradio.org/10topalbums.html -- you'll understand why I was so pleased when you see the company I’m in.I’m also honoured… (read more)
Sarah McQuaid for Folk Alliance 2011
December 13, 2010
We are delighted to announce that Sarah McQuaid has been selected for an official Performance Alley Showcase at the 23rd Annual International Folk Alliance Conference (http://www.folkalliance.org), taking place between 15th & 20th February in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.  One of the five largest music conferences in North America, the Folk Alliance draws over two thousand registered attendees each year,… (read more)
Happy Burns Night!
January 25, 2010
Hello everyone, and Happy Burns Night! Feargal and I attended a terrific celebration hosted by our friends Sarah and Geoff at the weekend, with poems composed for the occasion, some beautiful single malts and delicious haggis – here’s a photo: CD Baby and Haiti reliefFor those of you who don’t already know it, beginning today (Monday, January 25th) and continuing for two weeks, the good people… (read more)
New album in the can!
September 22, 2009
Hello, all. I hope you had a good summer! Mine was hectic, to say the least, mostly due to the ten days I spent recording my new album in Ireland, the frantic period of preparation that preceded them, and the ensuing frantic period of trying to catch up with all the things I'd let slide while getting material ready for the new album.It's going to be called The Plum Tree And The Rose, and features… (read more)
Tours, vertigo, new album and more
July 7, 2009
I've had lots of adventures since my last missive, starting with a lovely tour of Ireland in April, where as usual the highlights were all furnished by the people I met along the way. There was an impressive take-up to my open invitation for concertgoers to join me in singing my canon "In Gratitude I Sing" (for anyone else out there who wants to give it a go, it's still up on the Home page). At my… (read more)
Calling all singers! and other news
March 27, 2009
Calling all singersA couple of weeks ago, I started writing a song, and realised a few lines into it that it was taking the form of a canon. Luckily, that very evening -- 14 March -- I was playing a double bill with the excellent Cornish band Dalla (www.dalla.co.uk) and managed to recruit three of its members, plus Kim Guy of Cornish duo Corncrow, to give it a whirl. Even with only five of the six… (read more)
On Twittering
March 25, 2009
I’ve just written a “Guest Blog” for SpiralEarth.co.uk about my bemusement with Twitter and the whole online scenario for musicians in general. Click here to read it if you’re interested! (read more)
New videos, Radio 2 airplay, calendar changes
January 30, 2009
Hello there! Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve uploaded half a dozen new live concert videos, thanks to one Roy Flitcroft, who made an impressively high-quality recording of my gig at the Perthshire Amber festival in Dunkeld, Scotland, last October and was kind enough to send me a DVD of it. Have a look and let me know what you think.In other news, no less a personage than Aled Jones made… (read more)
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2009
A very happy new year to all of you!The last few months have been busy, to say the least, what with gigs in Holland, Belgium, Ireland and the UK, the release in October of I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning and most recently the launch of Crow Coyote Buffalo – the debut album from Mama, my new band with fellow singer-songwriter Zoë Pollock. Both CDs have been getting airplay around the globe and brilliant… (read more)
New album now available!
October 1, 2008
The big news for today is that my new album, I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning – with a 24-page (!) booklet including original cover artwork by the lovely and talented Mary Guinan – is now available to friends and supporters in advance of the 20 October release date.You can listen to a selection of tracks on the MUSIC page – or just go straight to the BUY page if you’re already sure you want it!I’m… (read more)
Collaborations galore
August 11, 2008
Hello, all. The album project with Zoë mentioned in the last of these missives is still going strong -- we're nearly finished recording, and expect to release "Crow Coyote Buffalo" under our band name, Mama, in late November -- watch this space for details of both the album and the Mama website, which is still under construction at the moment.Contrary to what I told you last time round, my new… (read more)
The West Penwith Hit Factory and other stories
June 7, 2008
Hello, all. Apologies for the long silence, but it's been a busy time. I was on the road for most of March, first in Holland and then in Ireland, and since my return I've been up to my eyes in a very exciting new project.Living just a couple of miles up the road from me is a lovely and prodigiously talented woman called Zoë, who had a hit single back in 1991 with a song she wrote called 'Sunshine… (read more)