“Beautifully contrasting vocals, a unique mix of guitar and inventive percussion, original and contemporary songs, engaging choruses and the Irish gift of chat and craic – little wonder the distinctive sound of Co Down based Fil Campbell and Tom McFarland has won fans around the world ”
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May 14 2020
Beautiful May
"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…
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Mar 11 2020
Border Stories on International Women's Day

Feb 23 2020
Lovely review of the Emigrant Woman's Tale
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.…
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Feb 21 2020
Border Stories
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…
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Jan 1 2020
The Emigrant Woman's Tale Spring Dates
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…
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Dec 17 2019
This Is Home
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…
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Aug 6 2019
Summer Sing Singing Workshop
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…
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Jul 31 2019
The Birds' Song Book

Jun 30 2019
A wee gig with John Spillane
Looking forward to singing a few songs with John Spillane in de Barras in Clonakilty this Thursday night.

Jun 30 2019
The Birds Song Book Launch
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…
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FairPlé: Rising Tides
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…
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May 15 2019
End of the tour
Some lovely photos posted today on Facebook from our concert in de Lantaern Folk Club in Zevenaar, which finished our European Spring tour
Apr 3 2019
Singing and Bodhran Workshops next month in Kiel
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…
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Mar 16 2019
Happy St Patrick's Day
Sending love and blessings to our friends around the world on this St Patrick's Day xx
Feb 28 2019
Newry TradFest
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…
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Feb 14 2019
Burren Captured
Terrific night in Burren Heritage Centre - thanks to Heather for the pic
Feb 13 2019
Valentine's Day in Burren
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…
Dec 31 2018
Happy New Year
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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Co. Down concerts in the New Year
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…
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Rostrevor and Belleek Shows
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…
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Best of Year Review
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 :)
http://3songsbonn.com/2015/12/31/2015-review/

Dec 20 2015
Christmas Newsletter
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…
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