Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland

"I Still Think of You Sometimes, when bluebells ring, and small birds find their voices earlier each day and Summer starts in May".

These are such strange times we're living in - just sending you a quick…

I love this photo taken after our first performance of The (revived) Emigrant Woman's Tale in Dundalk's Tain Theatre at the start of February. 

"The Emigrant Woman was fantastic. We saw it in Dundalk & we thought it was amazing.…

Looking forward to three performances of Border Stories next month - an extended version of The Emigrant Woman's Tale and including a short one woman play about homelessness, called Bananas!.   The shows are supported by the European Union's PEACE IV…

With an updated version of the show first presented in 2015, Fil with Hungarian poet Csilla Toldy are bringing The Emigrant Woman's Tale to Dundalk, Derry and Armagh before joining up with another play by Csilla - Bananas, a one…

Come and join us for a special event to celebrate International Migrants Day hosted by Fil and Csilla Toldy on Wednesday 18th December.   With writers and singers from Germany, France, Iran, Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Australia, America, Cambodia, Hungary, Poland and…

Now that Festival fever is over in these parts for another year, it's time to start looking forward.  

A few things to watch out for

I'll be co presenting a singing workshop with Laura Plummer of Voices of Lecale on…

Delighted to announce that the children's book of Tom's song The Birds' Song is now available for sale in our shop

The launch was a huge success at Fiddlers Green Festival and we're so excited to see the reaction to…

Looking forward to singing a few songs with John Spillane in de Barras in Clonakilty this Thursday night.  

Illustrated by the wonderful Colum McEvoy, Tom's song The Birds Song, a parody about immigration, has been turned into a short book for children which will be launched at Fiddlers Green Festival on Friday 26th July at 2.30pm here in…

Fil will be chairing a panel discussion at the Women's Work NI Festival on Saturday.  

Hosted by FairPlé, an all Ireland organisation looking at gender equality in traditional and folk music, the other panelists are singer Pauline Scanlon, agent and…

Some lovely photos posted today on Facebook from our concert in de Lantaern Folk Club in Zevenaar, which finished our European Spring tour 

We will both be doing workshops on our upcoming trip to Germany - in Hof Akkerboom in Kiel on Tuesday 7th May between 15h and 17h. 

Fil will present a group singing workshop - simple harmonies, beautiful songs from around…

Sending love and blessings to our friends around the world on this St Patrick's Day xx

Fil and Tom will be hosting the TradFest singing session on Saturday 16th March in Newry's fashionable Art Barfunkel between 2 and 4 pm.  

Bring yourself and a couple of songs or stories or poems or tall tales and join…

Terrific night in Burren Heritage Centre - thanks to Heather for the pic

Happy Valentine's Day one and all :)  
And this year we're celebrating in a different way performing a concert in the lovely Burren Heritage Centre in Warrenpoint.   It's great to be doing a home concert and a great chance to…

We wish you a wonderful 2019 wherever you are in the world.  

May your days be filled with fun, lots of music, good friends and plenty of joy and we hope our paths cross at some point along the way. 

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We're delighted to announce two local dates here in Co. Down in February.   

The first is in Burren Heritage Centre on St Valentine's Day at 8pm.   This is a beautiful venue - an old primary school that has been restored…

There's already a litte stretch in the evenings here in Co Down and there's a fresh energy around to get things moving for the New Year. I hope you and…

We're delighted to be included in this blog featuring the best of live music for the year in the Bonn area.  Thanks to John Hurd :)

Greetings one and all and a special hello to all the new people who have signed up to this list from our tours in Europe and the UK in September and October.

As the year is coming to a close…

So excited to be heading to Australia in March 2016.  We're gradually posting dates on the website here and are looking forward to doing several workshops, both for choirs and for bodhran in the Melbourne area ... as well as…