Our launch night at McKee's Country Store in Craigantlet was a great success - about 100 people turned up on a glorious sunny summer evening, all in fine singing voice, joining with us in about an hour and a quarter of hymns, music and banter. The soda bread was spectacular, and Chris Spurr from Radio Ulster's A Kist O Wurds was there to record the evening. We did an interview with Chris as well, which should be broadcast towards the end of this month. With thanks to Wilbert Magill and George Newell for doing their bit at the microphone, and to the Price family who travelled all the way from County Tyrone to be there!
For those of you who want to buy the CD, you can buy it directly from us (by post, or at any of our forthcoming performances), from shops (Faith Mission Bookshops provincewide / Ards Evangelical Bookshop / Bert McCormick's in Ballyclare / Albert McAuley's in Ballymoney) and shortly online via iTunes!. Price is £10 (plus £1 p&p if you're ordering by post). All profits are being given away to worthy causes.
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(ex Low Country Boys) - Welcome to the Thompson Brothers' blog, by Mark Thompson and Graeme Thompson, founders and original lead vocalists of the Low Country Boys. These days we're doing something similar but simpler - old-time gospel music in the classic mandolin/guitar "brother duet" tradition of the early 1900s. This blog will tell you more about the great brother duets, and other aspects of evangelical rural American culture and its Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots cultural roots - and a wee bit about our own music too.
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